La Place Chateaubriand, Saint-Malo, 1902-1903 (circa)

Oil on canvas - Huile sur toile

29 x 36 3/8 in
73.7 x 92.4 cm

This work will be included in the James Wilson Morrice Catalogue Raisonné being compiled by Lucie Dorais.

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Provenance

James Wilson Morrice;

David Morrice, Montreal (father of the artist);

Gifted by the above to the Mount Royal Club, Montreal.

Private Collection, Montreal.

Exhibitions

Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, 1903 Paris, Grand Palais, April 16 to June 30, cat. 969, ill. in cat. Salon Triennal des Beaux-Arts, 1904 Antwerp (Belgium), ca Aug. 20 to Sept. 25, exact dates unknown.
5th Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, 1905 London, New Gallery, Jan. 9 to Feb. 11, cat. no. 193. Traveled to Manchester (Mar. 31 to May 6), Burnley (May 23 to ?), Bradford (Oct. to Dec.).
28th Royal Canadian Academy, 1907 Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, April 1 to 27, cat. no. 149.
Exhibition of Works by the Members of the "Société des peintres et sculpteurs" (Formerly The Société nouvelle de Paris), 1911 Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Nov. 16 to Dec. 26, cat. no. 107, ill. Traveled to Chicago (Jan. 4 to 28, 1912), St. Louis MO (Fev. 4 to ?), Boston (dates unknown).
16th Annual Exhibition, 1912 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, April 25 to June 30, cat. no. 224.
Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by the late James W. Morrice, R.C.A., 1925 Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, Jan. 16 to Feb. 15, cat. no. 71.
Exposition d'art canadien, 1927 Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, April 10 to May 10, cat. 136. Special Exhibition of Canadian Art, 1932 (Imperial Economic Conference), Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, July 18 to Jan. 28, 1933, cat. 12.
James Wilson Morrice, R.C.A. 1865-1924 Memorial Exhibition, 1937 Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Nov. 25 to Dec. 27, cat. 97. Traveled to Toronto (AGT, Jan. 8 to ? 1938), Montreal (AAM, ? Feb. 1938).
Loan Exhibition: Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting, 1939 Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, Feb. 13 to March 2, cat. 32. (Opening of the new wing; Morrice, in "British" section, is only Canadian).
James Wilson Morrice: 1865-1924, 1965 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 30 to Oct. 31, cat. 68, ill. Traveled to Ottawa (NGC, Nov. 12 to Dec. 5).
J.W. Morrice, 1977 Vancouver Art Gallery, June 3 to July 3, cat. 11.
James Wilson Morrice 1865-1924, 1985 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 6, 1985 to Feb. 2, 1986, cat. 33, ill. Traveled to Québec (MQ, Feb 20 to April 20), Fredericton (BAG, May 15 to June 29), Toronto (AGO, July 25 to Sept. 14), Vancouver (VAG, Oct 9 to Nov 23).

Literature

Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, Paris, Grand Palais, April 16 to June 30, cat. 969, ill. in cat., 1903.
Exhibition of Works by the Members of the "Société des peintres et sculpteurs" (Formerly The Société nouvelle de Paris), Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Nov. 16 to Dec. 26, cat. no. 107, ill., 1911.
James Wilson Morrice: 1865-1924, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 30 to Oct. 31, cat. 68, ill., 1965.
DES GAGNIERS, Jean: Morrice. Québec, Editions du Pélican, 1971, Plate 2. Reproductions are in color (but very bad).
LAING, G. Blair: Memories of an Art Dealer, McClelland and Stewart, 1979, p. 43. La Place Chateaubriand, Saint-Malo described as "an important canvas".
James Wilson Morrice 1865-1924, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 6, 1985 to Feb. 2, 1986, cat. 33, ill.
STIKEMAN, H. Heward: The Mount Royal Club, 1899-1999. Montreal, Price-Patterson, c 1999, p. 170. Color repr.
BANHAM, Kathryn J.: The Architecture and Painting Collection of the Mount Royal Club, Montreal, 1899-1920. Montreal, Concordia University, M.A. Thesis, 2007, plate 34.
La Gazette des Beaux Arts (Paris), vol 3 no 30, July 1, 1903, p.51 (illustrates a review of Société Nationale, which mentions Morrice only by name, "last but not least" (in English in text); no mention of any work).
LARSEN, Wayne: James Wilson Morrice : Painter of Light and Shadow. Toronto : Dundurn Press, c. 2008, p. 30.