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The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (in French: La Société Canadienne de Peintres en Aquarelle), founded in 1925 is considered to be Canada’s official national water colour Society. Since the 1980s the Society has enjoyed Vice-regal Patronage from the incumbent Governor-General of Canada. Recognized by a long list of international exhibitions it is the Canadian equivalent of such other national societies as the American Watercolor Society, USA; the Royal Watercolour Society, UK; etc. The nation’s oldest medium-specific arts organization has had an illustrious history. Membership is looked upon as a mark of achieving peer recognition in one of the most difficult and demanding visual arts form. The elected members are entitled to use the Society’s initials CSPWC (in French: SCPA) after their names. == Early history == There is probably justification for including some of the indigenous peoples as early users of versions of watercolour in their artwork and crafts. Using local materials and chemicals they certainly approximated the watercolour medium in some of their pigments and dyes while really not having any practical reason for exploring any inherent transparent qualities. The first recorded use of a European trained watercolourist working within what is today Canadian territory is believed to be the works of John White〔"A Pageant of Canada (an Exhibition arranged in celebration of the Centenary of the Confederation)" Pages 8-11, 1967 Catalogue by (Sir) Roy Strong. The National Gallery of Canada Publication. Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer〕〔Canadian Encyclopaedia〕 who accompanied the expeditions of Sir Martin Frobisher〔"Landmarks of Canadian Art" By Peter Mellen. Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto 1978, Page 23. ISBN 0-7710-5828-4〕 in the 1570s. Another early example of a gifted watercolourist working in the same region would be Samuel de Champlain〔"Champlain`s Dream" David Hackett Fischer. Published by Alfred A. Knoph Canada. ISBN 978-0-307-39766-9〕 who first arrived in 1603. Historically art-trained officers or cartographers were dispatched by both the French and British governments to assist in the preparation of vitally important maps of these newly claimed lands and to record geographical features.〔"The Painter in the New World (A survey of painting since 1564 to 1867, marking the founding of Canadian Confederation)" Catalogue for June 9 - July 30, 1967 Exhibition organized for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Le Musée des Beaux - Arts de Montreal. Designed by Robert R. Reed, 1967〕 There is a surviving wealth of early watercolours from this period which record landscape features and early settlements. Eagerly collected in today's art markets the best are notably housed in Library and Archives Canada, the National Gallery of Canada and the Royal Ontario Museum. Prior to the invention of the camera, watercolour portrait miniatures, on vellum or ivory, were a staple in the homes of Canada’s urban elite. By the nineteenth century there were a number of well known watercolourists such as Thomas Davies (),〔"The Ontario Community Collects (A survey of Canadian Painting, 1766 to the present)" By William C. Forsey. Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario, Catalogue 1975. Page 68 and pages 88-91. ISBN 0-919876-12-9〕 George Heriot (),〔 Otto Jacobi (), Charles Jones Way () and Canadian-born Lucius Richard O'Brien () working in various parts of the country. Kane became well known for his record of interactions with the First Nations People as he travelled across western Canada with The North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. While Jacobi, Way and O'Brien and others involved themselves in the 1880 founding of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts there had long been demands, especially in Montreal, for the formation of a specifically medium based society. While several of these early societies did survive for brief periods it was on November 11, 1925, that a group of like-minded artists met at the historic Arts & Letters Club of Toronto and founded the CSPWC/SCPA. Only when a working framework was proposed for membership under the honorary leadership of the noted painter R.F. Gagen did it seem possible that such a society could survive in the immense geographical reality that was Canada. Within a few years a set of bylaws had been established, a constitution approved and several Toronto-based exhibitions held. The first elected President was Fred H. Brigden (1871–1951) a well-connected artist and educator who created a sense of vitality within the group and who encouraged many younger artists to apply for election. The founding members of the CSPWC/SCPA〔"Aquarelle!, A history of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour 1925-1985", Rebecca Sisler RCA, Porcupine Quill 1986〕 were F.H. Brigden,〔"The Great Adventure (hundred years at the Arts & Letters Club )". Page 136. Margaret McBurney. ISBN 978-0-9694588-2-1〕 A.J. Casson, Franklin Carmichael, C.W. Jeffreys,〔"The Formative Years", Imperial Oil Ltd, Toronto, 1968. Illustrations by C.W. Jefferys. Published by The Ryerson Press, Toronto.〕 F.S. Haines, L.A.C. Panton, R.F. Gagen, Thomas G. Greene, Robert Holmes, Franz Johnston, André Lapine, and E.J.Sampson.〔 When organizing the initial meeting these mainly Ontario-based artists did invite a number of nationally prominent watercolourists including W.J. Phillips〔 and F.H. McGillivray〔 who, being based at distances from Toronto, were unable to attend. However they did send strong letters of support and in reality should be considered "founders". This is significant because the inclusion of Florence H. McGillivray〔 is evidence of the new society's willingness to accept female members from its inception. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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