Canadian Oil Painting on Board by Artist, John William (J. W. ) Beatty (1869 – 1941) – OSA RCA.

A framed oil on board painting of a Canadian landscape by Canadian artist, J. W. Beatty, R.C.A. (1869-1941).  The painting shows trees and meadows and is signed on the lower right corner of  the board. The frame has a metal plaque affixed to the lower middle of the front and reads “J. W. Beatty, R.C.A. 1869-1941).  The frame is wooden and gilded.

J. W. Beatty RCA  John William Beatty) (1869–1941) was a Canadian painter who was a forerunner in the movement which became the Group of Seven in 1920. Beatty had early associations with the Group of Seven during a crucial time in Canadian painting. In 1909 he travelled with Lawren Harris to Haliburton in the spring and Memphremagog in the fall – likely the earliest northern sketching trip by a Group member. In 1914 he took a sketching trip to Algonquin Park with J.E.H. MacDonald and A.Y. Jackson. Beatty’s work was considered an early influence on Thomson – Beatty likely sketched with Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park and the two artists both had space at the Studio Building in Toronto. It was Beatty that built the cairn to Thomson’s memory at Canoe Lake in 1917. 

The picture (with frame) measures 15 inches tall x 17 inches wide.
The painting itself is 8 inches tall x 10 inches wide.