Maurice Galbraith Cullen worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Maurice Galbraith Cullen as Canadian artist (1866–1934).
Maurice Galbraith Cullen was born at St. John's in 1866. His recorded nationality is Canada. He trained at Académie Julian.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, draftsperson and landscape painter.
His recorded movement is impressionism.
Among his best-known works are landscape and Marine. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Canada shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Maurice Galbraith Cullen died in 1934, aged 68. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: landscape
- Notable work: Marine
- Movement: Impressionism
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