“The scene represented above is an attack upon a potato store in the town of Galway, on the 13th of the present month, when the distress had become too great for the poor squalid and unpitied inhabitants to endure their misery any longer, without…
Exhibition title: William Armstrong: Art and Enterprise, Watercolour Paintings of New Ontario. Curators: Janet Clark, Thunder Bay Art Gallery; 1996.01.19-1996.03.17. Further venue: Glenbow Museum: 1996.05.04-1996.08.04.
Andrew Morris (fl. 1844-1852) was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and likely emigrated to Canada, settling in Montreal, in the early 1840's. He is thought to have died in Montreal.
In 1844, he painted decorative panels representing Commerce and…