LUCIUSO'BRIEN
(1832 - 1899)
He became vice president of the OSA and stayed there until 1880 when he became the first president of Royal Canadian Academy. Even though he started professional landscape painting when he was 41, later than most artists, he quickly became a major force. He was the Canadian artist with a style closest to 'luminism', a style popular in the States, which can be recognized by the subtle colouring, atmosphere and the use of light to give the scene a spiritual force. He was one of the first painters of his generation to visit the Rockies, part of his growing vision that included the entire nation.
![]() A Prospector's Camp (1887) |
![]() Niagara (1892) |