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John Young Johnstone
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John Young Johnstone (November 12, 1887 - February 13, 1930) was a Canadian Impressionist painter, known for his paintings of life in city, town or countryside, as well as for scenes of Montreal's Chinatown.
Johnstone is considered to be one of the more enigmatic of the Canadian Impressionist painters. With no contemporary texts about his life, myths and speculations have filled that void.
Johnstone's training as an artist followed the path of other Montreal artists of his generation. In 1905–1910, he studied with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal, then in Paris, France at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1911–1915 with Lucien Simon and Émile-René Ménard. In Paris, where he shared a studio with Adrien Hérbert, he painted a number of small Impressionist cityscapes and landscape in the French countryside, Switzerland and Belgium. Upon his return to Canada, he chose as his subject matter observations of life in Quebec. His paintings were well received and he showed intermittently in the annual spring shows of the Art Association of Montreal until 1925 and with the Royal Canadian Academy from 1918 to 1923. He was made an associate member of the latter in 1920.Johnstone was noted by institutional collectors and as a sign of support, the National Gallery of Canada bought six of his canvases in his lifetime. Moreover, he received critical acclaim. In 1925, art critic, Newton MacTavish, suggested he was among the very fine painters of the day in his book, The Fine Arts in Canada. He was a member of the Beaver Hall Group which had its first exhibition in 1921, of the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal and of the Arts Club of Montreal.
In 1921 he inherited from his mother a pre-Confederation townhouse at 781 University Street (now 3533) and proceeded to transform the upper floor to a six metre high studio where he painted and lived with friends until his departure for Cuba. To supplement his income Johnstone taught at the Conseil des arts et manufactures, at the Monument-National from 1918 to 1928 and various art schools.
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