Curtis Williamson

Curtis Williamson RCA (January 2, 1867 – April 18, 1944) was a Canadian visual artist known for his portraits and figure painting; also genre and landscape.

[1] When he returned to Toronto from Holland in 1892, he brought back a style that was low in tone.

[3] In 1904, he returned to Toronto and won a silver medal for his painting Klaasje (1902) at the Canadian exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.

[5] In 1907, with Edmund Morris, he helped found the Canadian Art Club, and served as its secretary (1908-1909) and then, as a member of its executive council (1910-1915).

[7] He was a founding member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto with Lawren Harris and in 1913, Harris praised his work, calling it full of “half-subdued fire” in the Yearbook of Canadian Art.