James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924). A significant Canadian modern landscape artist. He studied painting in Paris at the Académie Julian. His teachers were Robert Henri and Maurice Predergast. He often travelled between Canada and Paris and painted the beauty of nature, especially in the area around Gibraltar and Beaches in Tangier. After World War I, he went to Algiers and descended into alcoholism. He died at age 58 in Tunis.