Paul Caron
"[Caron] worked in water colour using only distilled water and took great care with the selection of his materials to ensure permanency."
Colin S. MacDonald, A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume One (1967)
[Paul Caron] worked in water colour using only distilled water and took great care with the selection of his materials to ensure permanency." Colin S. MacDonald wrote back in 1967 in, A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume One (1967).
That explains why his watercolours, when properly conserved over the years , maintain a freshness and vibrancy. It is noteworthy that Caron was also an artist of distinction in the medium of oil paint.
Paul Caron was a highly accomplished newspaper illustrator of the early 20th century for the Montreal newspapers La Presse and then The Montreal Star, the now defunct but long-lived English-language afternoon daily.
The creative paintings he did beyond the confines of the newspaper has left a legacy of watercolours of significant urban interest of the period and are of outstanding quality. Caron was one of the numerous artists whose formation began at the Art Association of Montreal under the tutelage of William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. At the Art Association of Montreal's Annual Spring Exhibitions of 1931 and 1937, Caron twice won the Jessie Dow Prize for excellence in watercolour, among the most prestigious at the time. He exhibited with the important associations of his day including R.C.A., Canadian National Exhibition (C.N.E.), the Ontario Society of Artists (O.S.A.), the Art Association of Montreal (A.A.M.), was a member of Montreal's Pen and Pencil Club and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (R.C.A.) in 1939.
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