Background
He was born in Toronto, Ontario.
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George Cuthbertson
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He studied at the Toronto Model School, the University of Toronto, and the Westmount Academy in Montreal, Quebec. He studied with John David Kelly in Toronto and with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal, Quebec.
Career
At 13, he worked in the summer on a steamer as an able bodied seaman in Montreal. He entered the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1914, but left after one year. At 17, he joined the Dover Patrol of the Royal Canadian Navy.
At the time, he was the Navy"s youngest commissioned officer
He served from 1915 to 1918, on trawlers, mine sweepers, and mine layers. Upon leaving the service, he operated a woollen mill at Thurso, Quebec, where he lived for the remainder of his life.
He died there in 1969. Along with Paul Caron, Cuthbertson illustrated Blodwen Davies’ book about the Saguenay River, Saguenay, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1930).
Cuthbertson also authored and illustrated Freshwater, a history of the Great Lakes, published by MacMillan, in 1931.
He became a prominent marine painter, exhibiting in major centres in Canada and the United States. The Canada Steamship Lincolnshire exhibited his fully worked watercolours and maps with accompanying catalogues, in 1928 and 1942. In 1942, the exhibition travelled to London, Ontario and Fort William, Ontario and to the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
