page_title: Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Farquhar McGillivray Knowles / Work
caption_attribution_description: Beaupré.
context_page_description: Farquhar McGillivray Knowles was a Canadian painter who spent much of his life in Canada. He was best known for his seascapes.
context_section_description: Knowles was best known for his marine studies. A reviewer in the Ottawa Citizen describing an exhibition in Ottawa wrote, "In the United States he has a strong following of those who admire his pictures of the sea. There are a number of these on view at the present exhibition and a few of them represent his highest achievement in this direction. They are all notable for their freedom of movement and authentic atmosphere. One of these is Windswept, a very successful rendering of air, sky and water as the tide begins to ebb on a bright boisterous day. Another is Shades of Evening, which depicts a seaway set against a range of steep and sombre hills. The whitecaps dance and the wind carries the waves before it. It is close of day, and the last rays of the sun strike the summit of the hills in the background while a ghostly schooner runs for home in the shaded lee of the cliffs."
  The Mail & Empire said, "His Titan Bathers was for many years one of the most notable pictures in the Chicago Art Institute. Land and sea pictures from his brush are to be found in nearly all Toronto's seats of higher education and of his best known portraits might be mentioned those of Sir Robert Falconer, Hon. Chester Massey, Mrs. Timothy Eaton and Miss Addison. His series The History of Music is in the deaconess home in this city, and the Finding of Leander by Hero has been for years in the Ontario Art Museum."
  The photographer Margaret Watkins visited Annie and Farquhar McGillivray Knowles in New York in 1923. She wrote they, "are both awfully orthodox in their work and made a great to-do about the modern movement in art ... My prints are a darned sight more up and coming than his silly little paintings of boats and pink apple trees. They are beginning to realize that their attitude is a bit behind the times and instead of catching up with the procession they wax sarcastic and grouch on the side."
caption: Beaupré, 1909
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