signed lower right; titled on the gallery label verso_
Provenance: Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto ON
Doris McCarthy travelled extensively, well into her 90s. Reflecting late in life on her travels and inspirations McCarthy said:
“It is always the natural world around me that drives me to paint. I grew up loving wild country and believing that wilderness was beautiful…I travel to rural places in Canada and overseas, as well as to the sea, the mountains, the prairies, the badlands, and the high Arctic or Antarctic to get my inspiration, and especially to get the detachment from the normal responsibilities and distractions of my daily life in the city.”
Doris McCarthy was a guest at the Cloudy Ridge Ranch in 2003, painting daily en plein air, sometimes going so far as to move farmyard objects to prepare the scene she wanted. The ranch is located near Waterton Lakes National Park.
