Artist: Henry George Glyde
Title: ALASKA HIGHWAY, LOOKING TOWARD ST. ELIAS RANGE
Date: 1943
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 10.75 x 14.75 in. (27.3 x 37.5 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
Provenance: Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
Note: In October of 1943, H.G. Glyde and A.Y. Jackson travelled the Alaska Military Highway to make sketches for the National Gallery of Canada. An interesting narrative of this trip, including preparations, experiences and impressions of the landscape, can be found in Jackson’s “A Painter’s Country”, pp. 171-175.
LOT: 73
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Dorothy Elsie Knowles
Title: WAVES AT THE EDGE OF THE LAKE
Date: 1976
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 10.5 x 14.5 in. (26.7 x 36.8 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
Provenance: Estate of Margaret Andrekson, Calgary; Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton
LOT: 72
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Illingworth Holey Kerr
Title: CREEK WEST OF MILLARVILLE
Date: 1975
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist at his Calgary studio by the consignor, who had been a student of Kerr’s when Kerr was the director of art at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now SAIT).
LOT: 71
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Orestes Nicholas (Rick) Grandmaison
Title: FOOTHILLS LANDSCAPE SOUTH OF CALGARY
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
Notes:
signed
Note: The consignor was a friend of Rick Grandmaison and acquired this painting directly from the artist. The scene depicts the view, looking towards the south, from Grandmaison’s studio, located at what is now Highway 22X and 37 street.
LOT: 70
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Janet Mitchell
Title: AWKWARD SQUAD OF DUCKS
Date: 1956
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 13.25 x 19.75 in. (33.7 x 50.2 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
Note: Unfinished watercolour verso.
LOT: 69
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Roland Gissing
Title: GHOST RIVER VALLEY
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 68
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Orestes Nicholas (Rick) Grandmaison
Title: YOUNG ORCHARD IN SPRING
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Notes:
signed
LOT: 67
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Duncan Mackinnon Crockford
Title: JULY EVENING NR. INNISFAIL, ALBERTA
Date: 1979
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
Provenance: Estate of Annika Skagen, Calgary
LOT: 66
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Mannie Gonsalves
Title: FALL LANDSCAPE - MILLARVILLE
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 65
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Arthur H. Hider
Title: THE ROUND UP
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 13 x 15 in. (33 x 38.1 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 64
Auction: 2011 November | Hodgins Art Auctions
