◧ Artist: Homer Watson (1855-1936)
◧ Country: Canada
◧ Title: [The Flood Gate]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas, mounted on plywood
◧ Painting Size: 86.9 x 121.8 cm
◧ Country: Canada
◧ Title: [The Flood Gate]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas, mounted on plywood
◧ Painting Size: 86.9 x 121.8 cm
◧ Museum: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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◧ Country of Stamp Issue: Canada◧ Date of Issue: May 27, 2005
◧ Face Value: 85 Canadian Cents
◧ Issued to commemorate 125th Anniversary of National Gallery of Cananda
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Critics at the time and later saw The Flood Gate as a high point in the evolution of Watson’s style. A.Y. Jackson (1882–1974) reportedly told Watson that the canvas belonged in the Louvre, and Jackson’s fellow Group of Seven member Arthur Lismer (1885–1969) characterized it in the 1930s as “an old master” painting: Canada’s finest depiction of a rural landscape.
Its subject and composition—the scene is of a man taking pressure off a dam by opening its floodgate during a storm—underscore Watson's favorite theme of nature's power and majesty. (excerpt from Art Canada Institute Exhibition)
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