Chronology: J. W. Morrice
1865
August 10: born in Montréal (Québec, Canada).1882
Summer: Cushing's Island (Portland, Maine, USA).
Fall: Toronto, University College.1886
Summer: Adirondacks (New York State).
Fall: Toronto, studies law at Osgoode Hall.1888
First participation in the Royal Canadian Academy Annual Show.1889
First participation in the Art Association of Montreal's Spring Show.
Fall: Called to the Ontario Bar.1890
Spring: Leaves for London, England.
Summer: Saint-Malo (Brittany, France).1891
Fall: Moves to Paris, which will become his permanent residence; attends the Académie Julian.1892
Takes lessons from Henri Harpignies.
Meets the American painter Maurice B. Prendergast.1892-1894
Paints in Normandy (Dieppe, Mers) and Brittany (Saint-Malo, Dinard, Cancale).1894
Travels to Canada and Italy (Venice, Rome, Capri).1895
Meets the American painters Robert Henri and William Glackens.
Paints at Bois-le-Roi (Forest of Fontainebleau) and Dieppe, also in Belgium and Holland.1896
Spring: First participation in the Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts, Paris.
June-July: Saint-Malo, Cancale.
November: Montréal for Christmas and New Year.1897
January-February: paints at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and Québec with Canadian painter Maurice Cullen.
Summer or Fall: Italy (Venice, Rome, Florence).1898
July: Lives in Montmartre.
August: Saint-Malo.1899
August-September: Saint-Malo.
October: Moves to 45, Quai des Grands-Augustins (Montparnasse).
December: Canada, until February 1900.1901
Summer: Venice, with Canadian painters Maurice Cullen and Edmond Morris.
First participation in the Salon of the International Society, Londres.1902
Summer: Italy; Venice, Florence (with Canadian painters Cullen et William Brymner), Sienna (with Brymner).1904
July: South of France (Avignon, Marseille)1905
Summer: Concarneau.
First participation in the Salon d'Automne, Paris
Fall: Canada, until February 1906.1906
Summer: Normandy (Dieppe) and Brittany (Concarneau, Le Pouldu).
First participation in the Goupil Gallery Salons, London.1907
July: Saint-Malo.1908
Charter member, and first participation in the Canadian Art Club, Toronto.
December: Canada, until February 1909.1909
April-May: Concarneau and vicinity.
September: Dieppe.
November: Concarneau, until the Spring of 1910 (short stay in Paris in January).1910
Summer: Travels to Canada.
December: London.1911
Spring: Boulogne.
December: Canada, until January 1912.1912
End of January: Tangier (Morocco); his friend, French painter Henri Matisse, is already there.
Summer: Dieppe.
December-March 1913: Second stay in Tangier, via Spain, again with Matisse.1914
Buys a villa for his companion Léa Cadoret at Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice (Côte d'Azur).
March: Tunis.
September: London, then Montréal. Death of his parents.
Last participation in the Royal Canadian Academy.1915
February: Cuba, Jamaica. Back to Paris in May.
Summer: south-west of France.
Last participation in the Canadian Art Club, which is disbanded.1916
Last participation in the Art Association of Montreal's Spring Show.1918
February: Picardy war front, makes studies for a war painting (commission).
Summer: Concarneau, paints his war painting.
Lives on the Quai de la Tournelle, Paris.1921
January: Travels to Québec.
Spring: Trinidad.1922
Spring: Algeria, via Corsica.1923
End of December: Leaves Cagnes-sur-Mer for Tunis.1924
January 23: Dies at Tunis, where he is buried.
Based on research by Nicole Cloutier, in James Wilson Morrice 1865-1924, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1985 (exhibition catalogue).
Last Updated: November 1, 2000