Merton Center - Owen Merton Watercolors

A Gallery of Paintings by Owen Merton

In a 1966 letter to one of his aunts, Gwynedd Merton Trier, Thomas Merton wrote asking about her knowledge of Owen Merton’s paintings:

“Have you any notion where his paintings are? . . . do you think there is any possibility of finding Father's pictures, if they survived the war, and doing something about them? Perhaps an exhibition could be arranged in this country and then those not sold could be placed somewhere where they could be seen."

Although Thomas Merton never got to see his Father’s work again before his death the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University has, over the years, acquired a number of paintings by Owen Merton thus fulfilling Merton’s desire to see his Father’s work once more available to the public.

The following paintings by Owen Merton are all in the collections of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. If you are able to assist financially with the acquisition of further paintings by Owen Merton for the archives then please contact Paul M. Pearson.

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"Steamers, London." Watercolor. 1906	"Holland." Watercolor. 1909.	"Dutch Windmill Near Amsterdam." Watercolor. 1909.


"Fontarabie, Church and Town." Watercolor. 1911.	"Fontarabie, Church and Town." Watercolor. 1911.	"Fontarabie, Church and Town." Drawing. 1911.


"Nude." Drawing. 17th November, 1913.	"Prades." Watercolor. 191?	"Prades." Watercolor. 1916.


"Snow Scene, Long Island." Watercolor. 1919.	"Long Island Landscape." Watercolor.1919.	"Snow-Buffeted House, Flushing, New York." Watercolor.1920.


"Somerset Bridge, Bermuda." Watercolor. January 14th, 1922.	"St. Georges, Bermuda." Watercolor. February 8th, 1922.	"St. Georges, Bermuda." Watercolor. February 9th, 1922.


"Bermuda." Watercolor. February 12th, 1922.	"Harbor, Bermuda." Watercolor. February 22nd, 1922.	"Bermuda House." Watercolor. 1922.


"Coast." Watercolor. 1922.	Watercolor. 1923.	"Noon Heat, A North African Village Pool." Watercolor. 1923.


Watercolor. 1923.	Watercolor. 1924.	"Desert Village." Watercolor. 1924.


Watercolor. 1924.		"Desert Oasis." Watercolor. February 24th, 1924.


"St. Antonin." Watercolor.	"Artist's Residence, France." Watercolor.	"Hillside, France." Watercolor.


"Street, Beziers." Watercolor. March 17,1924.	"Street, Beziers." Watercolor. December 27, 1924.	"Street with the Bull-ring, Beziers." Watercolor. 1924.


"Street, Beziers." Watercolor. 1924.	"Cathedral, Beziers." Drawing.	"Street, Beziers." Watercolor. 1924.


"Street, Beziers." Watercolor. Unfinished.	Watercolor. 1924.	"Street, Beziers." Watercolor. 1925.


"Village Scene." Watercolor. February 3rd, 1925.	"Sete Harbor." 1927.	"Sete Harbor." 1927.


"Ships Drying Sails."


"Mont Saint Michel" Oil Painting.		"Canterbury Cathedral." Watercolor. Easter 1929.


Owen Merton, 1887 - 1931.	Owen and Ruth Merton.	Standing, from left: John Llewellyn Charles Merton (Llyn), Alfred James Merton, Beatrice Katherine Merton (Ka), Sybil Mary Merton. Seated, from left: Owen Heathcote Grierson Merton, Gertrude Hannah Merton, Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer Merton (Kit), Gwynnedd Fanny Merton (Gwyn). [c.1909].

The Merton Center is hoping to find the funding to purchase further paintings by Owen Merton for the archives. If you are able to assist financially with this project please contact the director and archivist Dr. Paul M. Pearson or on 502 272 8177.

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