Thomas Harold BEAMENT (1898 - 1984) R.C.A.

Untitled, autumn landscape, oil on canvas, 20 x 26 inches, signed lower right. Provenance: Ancestral home of the Arthur James Nesbitt Family, co-founder of Nesbitt Thomson & Co. (brokers) and the Power Corp Canada. Arthur J. Nesbitt bought Ogilvy Department Store (Montreal) in 1927. Beament was born in Ottawa. He was an Official Second World War artist with the Royal Canadian Navy, and held the highest service rank of any Canadian artist in the Second World War – of Commander. Beament held his first important solo exhibit at the Watson Art Gallery in Montreal until 1939. He also exhibited regularly in the Montreal Museum of Fine Art Spring Shows and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) Annual Shows. Beament is represented in the following notable public collections: National Gallery of Canada; Canadian War Museum; McMichael Canadian Art Collection; Art Gallery of Hamilton; Museum London, Ontario to name a few.