Artist: Roland Gissing
Title: DECEMBER IN THE FOOTHILLS
Date: 1950
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Notes:
signed; titled & dated on artist’s label verso
Provenance: Estate of Eric Connelly, Calgary
LOT: 65
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: George A. Horvath
Title: SUMMER SPLENDOR
Date: 1979
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.8 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 64
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Roland Gissing
Title: STOOKS IN AUTUMN
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Notes:
signed
LOT: 63
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: George A. Horvath
Title: ELBOW RIVER
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
Provenance: Gainsborough Galleries, Calgary (label verso)
LOT: 62
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: George A. Horvath
Title: LAKE O'HARA
Date: 1977
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.8 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
Provenance: West End Gallery, Edmonton (label verso)
LOT: 104
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Georgia Jarvis
Title: AN OLD MILL
Medium: oil on masonite
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 103
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Richard (Dick) Ferrier
Title: LAKE HURON
Medium: acrylic on masonite
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Notes:
signed; titled an artist’s label verso
Provenance: The Fine Art Galleries, T. Eaton Co. (label verso)
LOT: 102
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Grant Tigner
Title: GATINEAU PARK IN OCTOBER
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 101
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Arthur George Lloy
Title: QUARRY POND
Date: 1980
Medium: oil on masonite
Dimensions: 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 100
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Alexander Young Jackson
Title: GREY DAY, PORT AU PERSIL
Date: 1947
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.5 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
Among the many places AY Jackson painted, his sketches of rural Quebec are by far the most celebrated facets of his work. Beginning in 1921, following a trip to the South Shore with A.H. Robinson, Jackson devoted more than 25 years to this countryside and it would come to define his contribution to Canadian art. In the natural rhythms of its landscape and among its picturesque villages he found his ideal painting place. “Here we are in Christmas card country”, he wrote in letter to JEH upon arrival to Baie St.Paul in 1924, “I see cards waiting to be done.”
Grey Day, Port-au-Persil, is a superb testament to Jackson’s natural ability in capturing the aura of Quebec in winter. Here we see the village of Port-au-Persil resting on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence in Charlevoix county. It is among the province’s most idyllic hamlets. The Port-au-Persil chapel seen in the distance is still today one of the most iconic photo sites in Canada. Jackson paints the homestead in the foreground with a scattering of houses which serves to balance the composition harmoniously. He uses the curvilinear pathways and hillocks to suggest a rhythmical movement throughout leading us through its snow covered paths as if he were our personal guide. Across the St. Lawrence River is the palpable atmosphere and reality of the day’s weather. In true ‘Group’ fashion, Jackson painting en-plein-air, has given us exactly what he saw that moment, an honest and compelling sketch of his beloved Quebec in winter.
LOT: 99
Auction: 2015 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
