Gloucester

Gordon Payne was born in Payne's Mills, Ontario in 1890. He studied art under Mary Cox at the School of Fine Arts, New York and under George Reid, J. W. Beatty and William Cruikshank at the Ontario College of Art. He worked in oil and watercolour and is best known for his coastal, harbour and marine paintings. He was active in Gloucester, Massachusetts and in Ingersoll, Toronto and Halifax in Canada. He retired to Halifax in 1958. In 1946 he established the Payne School of Fine Art in Toronto. He exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy. His work is in most major collections in Canada and the United States, as well as many private and public collections around the world. Gordon Payne died in 1983.