New show. New book. PAMA in Brampton celebrate the late George Paginton
George Paginton. The man who quietly painted Peel, Mississauga, Toronto and Canada. New show. New book. Rene Nand(l) PAMA, MPP Anand, curator author Sharona Adamowicz-Clements By Stephen Weir and P hotos Herman Custodio The 401 super highway winds through Peel County like a strip of concrete spaghetti. There are glass and steel condos where cows once grazed. Last century painting great George Paginton would not recognize his old stomping grounds where he loved to wander and paint. Back in the 1930s, 40s and 50s George Paginton was the patron saint of landscaping painting in a part of Ontario that would one day become the busy metropolises of the Toronto GTA, Brampton and Mississauga. Inspired by the Peel landscape like the Group of Seven’s love of the outdoors, Paginton's direct, truthful and rugged paintings of the land brought out a sense of beauty rarely seen now adays in art galleries and museums. Born in the UK in 1901 and orphaned at the age of 3