Willard M. Mitchell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian artist
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Place of Birth: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
About Willard M. Mitchell
- Willard Morse Mitchell (February 14, 1879 - June 15, 1955) was a Canadian artist and architect best known for his miniature watercolour paintings.
- They were mostly nature scenes. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, being the youngest of six children.
- He attended Rothesay Collegiate and later studied art and architecture in Saint John.
- He was married in 1904 and that year he moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia.
- For nearly two decades, he worked as an architect and made paintings in Amherst.
- He moved to Belleville, Ontario in 1923 and in 1927 he removed to Montreal where he focused exclusively on the sale of his art as souvenir pieces.
- He died in Montreal in 1955. He is noted for painting very small pieces of art, often no more than 150 square centimetres in size.
- Many of his latter works depict scenes from rural Quebec.
- He made his own hand-carved frames and printed paper backings for his pieces that told the story behind the scene depicted; thus he made several versions of the same picture.
- Mitchell would copy his most popular scenes using carbon paper on top of watercolour paper, making each scene appear as an original.
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