Frederick Varley's "STORMY WEATHER, GEORGIAN BAY 1920" - Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
N 45° 19.543 W 079° 13.296
17T E 639368 N 5020672
This mural is part of the Group of Seven Outdoor Gallery in downtown Huntsville, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WM7MY6
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/10/2009
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This mural is located on the west wall of Muskoski Urban Rustic Living at 15 Main Street W. in huntsville. The mural depicts a sketch, called "Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay 1920", originally painted by Frederick Varley. This mural painted by artist Marc Sorozan is about 3 by 3 meters. It depicts a wind swept pine tree and water with white caps at Georgian Bay in stormy weather. This painting Stormy Weather is the only pure landscape known by Varley before he went to British Columbia in 1926. This painting was a tribute to Tom Thomson.
Frederick Horsman Varley
Frederick Varley was born in 1881 in Sheffield, England. He studied painting at Sheffield and Antwerp and went to work in London as a commercial illustrator.
In 1912 he came to Canada, where he found himself working in the same commercial studio as Tom Thomson. With Thomson and the others he took to painting Northern Ontario landscapes, and also began to do considerable work as a portrait painter.
In 1926 Varley moved to Vancouver to become Head of Drawing, Painting & Composition at the newly formed Vancouver School of Decorative & Applied Arts. In 1933 he founded his own school, the AB College of Arts, but this venture led to his bankruptcy in 1935. In 1938 his marriage also collapsed.
The next years were difficult for Varley, most of them spent suffering from alcoholism in Montreal. In 1945, however, he returned to Toronto and slowly began to work again. He died in Toronto in 1969.
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