Seascape at Night – Percy Roy Wilson

Roy Wilson, Percy (1900-2001)

Percy Roy Wilson was a Canadian artist who was born in 1900.

WILSON, Percy Roy (1900-2001) was born in Birmingham, England on 19 May 1900 and attended Repton School. He was brought to Canada by his family in 1913 and studied at Upper Canada College in Toronto, then enrolled at the School of Architecture at McGill University in 1919 where his professors included Ramsay Traquair and Percy Nobbs. Traquair helped Wilson develop a lifelong interest in the rural Quebec vernacular style of architecture, an influence which was clearly evident in his designs and drawings for residential projects over the next thirty years. Wilson was a gifted delineator and draftsman, and his talent was brought to national attention when, in 1921 while still a student, he received an award of $1,000 for his entry in the Canadian Battlefields Memorial Competition. He used his prize money to subsidize an extended tour of Europe, and later graduated from McGill in 1924. He moved to New York City and worked as an assistant to Harry T. Lindeberg (in 1924-25), then to Sault Ste. Marie to work with Findlay & Foulis (1925), and back to New York to join York & Sawyer (in 1926-27). There, his skill as an architect and artist was brought to the attention of the editors of the American journal Architectural Forum (New York), who hired Wilson to design the covers of the magazine in 1927-29. Wilson returned to Canada and opened his own office in Montreal in 1927; within months he received a significant commission for a substantial country mansion for Robert O. Sweezy, the President of the Beauharnois Power Corporation, to be built near Kingston, Ont. .
Seascape at night (1996)
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated on lower right P. Roy Wilson 96
Dimension:
14″ x 21″
35.56 x 53.34 cm