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A favorite. Perhaps a study for a painting, or for some illustration work for a news paper ; as he always did work of that type to scrape a living.

This is a beautiful pastel portrait of my grand mother Genevieve by Monty. His pastel technique was so soft and vibrant with organic forms that feel so alive. There is something truly loving in his gesture.

Long overdue!

I have long been meaning to create this blog about my Grandfather Monty. He was an incredibly talented painter and I am hoping that more info about his work can be gathered and more pictures posted of all his work. I have taken pictures of all the work of his I have had access to, mostly works owned by me and my mom. I will try to give as much info about each piece as I can and add to it as I go along. I will post a few to start soon.

Our family has sadly very few oil paintings of him. Only one I believe. My greatest hope with this blog would be to trace more of them. His favorite mediums were oil and pastels, but he use to sketch people in the street all the time and was a wonderful caricaturist. He had a legendary witt and sense of humour that both his sons inherited (He had 4 children from 2 mariages)

His son Garth Williams also became an artist - and a famous one - who illustrated over his lifetime hundreeds of books including many American classics like "the little house in the prairie", "Charlote's web", "Mister Dog"... and many more. I will do a blog about him too once I am well ahead with my curent ones. Here is a great article about him: http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/07/classics-3/