William Edwin Atkinson

William Edwin Atkinson

1862 1926

Canadian painter (1862-1926)

William Edwin Atkinson (1862–1926), also known as W.E. Atkinson, was a Canadian painter of landscape, a founding member of the Canadian Art Club in 1907, whose work was influenced by Impressionism combined with aesthetics drawn from the Barbizon school and the Hague School. "He delights in quiet communion with peaceful pastoral scenes", wrote E. F. B. Johnston in 1912.

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