Paul A. Caron, born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied drawing and painting under William Brymner, Maurice Cullen and Edmond Dyonnet at the school of the Art Association of Montreal.

He worked 11 years in the stained glass industry making drawings for ornaments and figures and then for La Presse and the Montreal Star doing pen and ink drawings.

He was a designer and illustrator for magazines but eventually turned to full time painting particularly of old buildings and ancient areas of Montreal and Quebec City.

He favoured winterscapes and painted many rural scenes in the Laurentians of which several were reproduced on Christmas cards.

He worked in watercolour using only distilled water and took great care in the selection of his materials to insure permanency.

He exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy and the spring shows of the Art Association of Montreal; Ontario Society of Artists, and the Fine Arts Section of the Canadian National Exhibition.

He won the Jessie Dow award prize for watercolours in 1931 and 1937.

His works are in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of the Province of Quebec.

He was member of the Pen and Pencil Club, Montreal; The Arts and Letters Club, Montreal; The Canadian Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers; The Canadian Society of Graphic Art; and the Royal Canadian Academy (A.R.C.A. 1939).

His works were shown at the Galerie l’Art Francais, Laurier Avenue, Ottawa, and the Stevens Art Gallery on Drummond Street, Montreal.

He is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada by one of his Montreal street scenes.

Four of his beautiful oils decorated Blodwen Davies’ Saguenay. Colin S. MacDonald, A Dictionary of Canadian Artists Vol. I, (Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd., Ottawa, 1967): p.118.

Dictionnaire des artistes de l’objet d’art au Québec. (Https://artistesduquebec.ca/)
Caron, Paul (1874–1941)
Autre nom
Caron, Paul Archibald Octave
Mouvements et thèmes
Thèmes picturaux
Paysage
Scène urbaine ou rurale
Associations
ARC/RCA
Techniques
Dessin
Crayon ou plume
Estampe
sur bois
Illustration
Peinture
Aquarelle
Huile
Verre
L'artiste Paul Caron, assis dans une pièce décorée de tableaux et de sculptures à son domicile du 1117, rue Saint-Mathieu à Montréal, le 10 septembre 1940
Crédit photo : Poirier, Conrad, 1912-1968
Apprentissage et enseignement
Formation académique
Art Association of Montreal
École des Arts et Métiers (Monument National)
a étudié avec
Sir William Brymner
Maurice Cullen
Edmond Dyonnet
Expositions
Groupe
1940 - 57e Exposition du printemps, Art Association of Montreal, Montréal, QC du 20 mars au 4 avril 1940
Posthume
1972 - Studio des Artistes canadiens, St-Hyacinthe, QC
1966 - Artistes de 1906-1936. 60e anniversaire de Morency Frères, Montréal, QC du 25 janvier au 25 février 1966
Solo
1932 - Oils and water-colour paintings by Paul Caron, Art Association of Montreal du 3 décembre au 20 décembre 1932
Musées et collections
Musée Laurier
Bibliographie
Guides et dictionnaires
Comeau p. 53
Guide Vallée 1989 p. 735
Guide Vallée 1993 p. 359
Karel p. 148
Lemieux, Cote officielle p. 23
McMann, Biographical Index... p. 39
Monographies
Boulizon, Paysage... p. 91
Lesage, Jules S., MÉLANGES, notes artistiques et propos littéraires, Québec, 1946, p. 35 (BANQ, consulté le 28 octobre 2023)
Robert, La peinture au Québec p. 71 et 205
Revues et articles de journaux
"Art Association Opens 57th Spring Exhibit. Notable Feature of Display is Unusually Large Proportion of Portraits or Portrait Studies." Montreal Star march 21, 1940. p.19 (Université Concordia, consulté le 12 novembre 2023)