Frederick Henry Brigden

Frederick Henry Brigden, RCA, OSA, CSGA, CSPWC, (1871 – 1956) was born in London England and moved to Toronto in the 1890s where he studied with William Cruikshank and George Agnew Reid. Working in the traditional methods of English watercolour, Brigden was influenced by the scenery of the Canadian north and by an exhibition of Scandinavian art that he saw in New York in 1912. His work is of interest to the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in particular because of his early associations with regions such as Lake Louise, Lake O’Hara, and Assiniboine, where he worked in the 1920s with Walter Phillips and Fred Niven. Purchased with funds from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Gala Fundraiser, this small watercolour titled Lake Near Mount Assinaboine (sic), is a wonderful addition to the Whyte’s growing collections of historical mountainscape painting.

Lisa Christensen, Curator Of Art

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