Galerie Molinas

From A Dictionary of Canadian Artists by Mr. Colin Macdonald :
Born in Montreal, he studied drawing and painting under William Brymner, Maurice Cullen and Edmond Dyonnet at the Art Association of Montreal School; also in New York and Philadelphia. He worked as: draughtsman for J.C. Spence & Sons, Mtl., makers of stained-glass (1891-1902); as an illus­trator for La Presse (1897-1908) and the Montreal Star; as an illustrator and later director for Desbarats Advertising Agency, Mtl. He turned to full-time painting of old buildings and ancient cottages in the districts of Montreal and Quebec City, landscapes of the Laurentians and Baie St. Paul region. Several of his winter scenes were reproduced on Christmas cards. Many of his paintings were done in water colour and he took great care in the selection of his materials to ensure permanency. He won the Jessie Dow Prize for water colours twice (1931) (1936). Four of his beautiful landscapes in oils decorated Blodwen Davies' Saguenay (1930). He exhibited with: RCA; Spring Shows, Art Assoc. of Mtl. (MMFA); OSA and the Fine Arts Section, Canadian National Exhibition. The National Gallery of Canada has two fine examples of his work, Infant (1915), pastel on buff paper, and Old-Shops Notre-Dame Street (1923), water colour over graphite on heavy wove paper. He died in Montreal in 1941 at the age of 67. His affiliations were: Newspaper Artists' Assoc. (1903); Arts Club of Mtl. (1912); CSGA (1924-36); CPE (1929); Pen & Pencil Club, Mtl. (1937); ARCA (1939).