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Joachim George Gauthier RCA OSA CSPWC (1897-1988)

Title: “Haliburton Waterfall”

Medium: Oil on Board

Period: c.1926-1930

Size: 10” x 12”

Comments: This rare painting was likely painted during a sketching trip with Group of Seven members Franklin Carmichael and A.J. Casson.  

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Joachim Gauthier was born in North Bay, Ontario and studied in Tacoma, Washington under Victor Alonzo Lewis. Upon his return to Canada, he studied under Group of Seven members Franklin Carmichael and J.E.H. MacDonald in Toronto. He worked as a commercial artist for the firm of Sampson-Matthews Ltd. for over 37 years where he met A.J. Casson and the two became life long friends. A.H. Robson, author of Canadian Landscape Painters, noted him as a painter of promise in 1932. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and many private collections.

The following is an excerpt from “Joachim Gauthier – His Life – His Works” written by Paul F. Gauthier and published by Libby’s Of Toronto Art Gallery:

“I can recall my father telling the stories of how he and Frank would travel all day on dirt roads to get to Whitefish Falls and Willisville where they would set out by canoe packed with camping gear and sketching utensils. They would pitch their tent and tramp the La Cloche Hills searching for subject matter to sketch their interpretations of the white quartzite hills and lakes…The late twenties and early thirties were very important to Gauthier as his abilities in outdoor sketching finally started taking on a mature semblance of balance in composition, design and colour. These artists were all very competent in line drawing but it was through their outdoor experiences over the years that recognition as Canada’s finest delineators of rural and wilderness areas was attained.

            When A.J. Casson joined Sampson-Matthews in 1927, he joined Gauthier, Frank Carmichael, Sydney Hallam, and Herbert Sydney Palmer on many an excursion to Holland Landing, Haliburton, Credit Forks, Markham, Parry Sound and other locations. The paintings these artists produced in this period were a litany of villages, lakes and woodlands; wonderfully fresh, with a vitality unmatched in today’s artistic venue.”