Paintings

by

A.J. and M. Lamont

Toronto, Canada
1949-1964

 

A.J. was Archibald James ‘Archie’ Lamont. 

M. was Margaret 'Meg' [nee Wares] Lamont, Archie’s wife.

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Emigrating to Toronto from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1920, Archie and Meg moved to a recently built home on the northern fringe of Toronto’s Beaches area in 1941. Archie was an engineer employed in a management position at the Toronto Works of the Massey-Harris farm implements company.

Archie began painting in Watercolours around 1949. Meg began to produce oil paintings after maybe about 1952. Both Archie and Meg generally produced works of art as simple personal objects of beauty and interest, but Archie certainly turned his engineer’s eye to his paintings. Some of Archie’s works were displayed publicly at different times and places for short periods. Archie is known to have duplicated some works, and given them to friends and family. Notes and labels on the backs of some paintings suggest that some of Meg’s paintings were hung on display at some time and place, as well.

 

read more about A. J. and M. Lamont here
find details about A. J. Lamont's watercolour paintings here
find details about M. Lamont’s paintings here