Queen's University, Kingston

An Artist after All: Daniel Fowler in Canada
On View: 10 September - 3 December 2006

On the whole then, I was an artist after all... The delight that I found in my new life - my second and inner life - my profound gratification and gratitude, may be more easily imagined than described. - Daniel Fowler, Autobiography, 161. An Artist after All: Daniel Fowler in Canada

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition An Artist After All: Daniel Fowler in Canada
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
On view: 10 September - 3 December 2006

 

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Introduction
Trained as an artist in his native England, Daniel Fowler (1810 - 1894) immigrated in 1843 with his young family to Amherst Island, near Kingston, Ontario, and for the next fourteen years devoted himself exclusively to farming. Returning to painting part time in 1857, with his beloved Island as his subject, he soon established himself among Canada's first generation of professional artists, and was admired by his peers as "one of the fathers of Canadian art."

Fowler was a founding member of the Ontario Association of Artists (1872) and was elected a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy (1880). He was the only Canadian to receive an international medal of excellence at the International Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. Also a prolific writer, Fowler reflected upon his experiences in journals, an autobiography, articles and fiction.

Through his paintings and writings, Daniel Fowler speaks proudly as both a successful artist and farmer across almost 150 years to new audiences in the 21st century.

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CREDITS & SUPPORT
This web page and the exhibition are made possible through the generous support of Frances K. Smith, the Janet Braide Memorial Fund, the Healthy Community Fund of the City of Kingston, the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund and the Ontario Arts Council.

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