Artist: Peter Ewart
Title: ABOVE THE TONQUIN VALLEY
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 7
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Alan Caswell Collier
Title: ACROSS NORWEGIAN BAY, EASTERN ARCTIC
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 16 x 36 in.
Notes:
signed; titled on artist’s label verso
LOT: 6
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Charles Anthony Francis Law
Title: PHANTOM ICEBERG, BAFFIN BAY
Date: 1990
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 5
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: James McLaren (Jim) Nicoll
Title: MOUNTAIN AND RIVER LANDSCAPE, BOW VALLEY
Medium: oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 21 x 22.5 in. (53.3 x 57.2 cm)
Notes:
signed
LOT: 4
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Curtis Golomb
Title: TO JASPER
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 3
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: John Douglas Lawley
Title: SUGARING, BAIE ST-PAUL
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Notes:
signed; titled on gallery label verso
LOT: 2
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Hilton MacDonald Hassell
Title: MARCH, CARSON LAKE
Medium: oil on hardboard
Dimensions: 16 x 24 in. (40.6 x 61 cm)
Notes:
signed; titled on artist’s label verso
LOT: 1
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: David Allen Thauberger
Title: CHARMER
Date: 1991
Medium: acrylic and glitter on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 35.5 in. (61 x 90.2 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 28
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Illingworth Holey (Buck) Kerr
Title: ANCIENT PARABLE
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 18.25 x 30.75 in. (46.4 x 78.1 cm)
Notes:
monogrammed recto; signed & titled verso
LOT: 27
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Alexander Young Jackson
Title: COPPERMINE
Date: 1950
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 10.5 x 13.5 in. (26.7 x 34.3 cm)
Notes:
titled & dated on label verso
inscribed verso with notations and the names of a number of individuals for whom canvases were produced from this sketch.
Provenance: Former collection of Burton Taylor (B.T.) Richardson, Winnipeg, MB – Richardson was a journalist and attaché to John Diefenbaker, and author of “Canada and Mr. Diefenbaker” (1962), published the year that the Prime Minister abandoned his “Northern Vision”.
A. Y. Jackson would travel to the Arctic several times in his life; for the first time in 1927, in the company of Dr. F. G. Banting, aboard the S.S. Beothic; and for the final time in 1965, at the age of 83. The land held a fascination for him. In particular, the Coppermine was an area of legend. Jackson had heard the tale of the 1900 Camsell-Bell geological expedition crossing overland to the Coppermine. Trapped by a storm, separated from their men, low on provisions and fearful of the local population, the trip was nearly disastrous. In 1950 Jackson would first realize his desire to “get into the Barren Lands” this area north-east of Great Bear Lake. His group picked out their sketching ground from aboard an Eldorado Mines plane. Upon landing, they pitched their tents and their pilot left them for a week to camp, forage, and sketch.
Jackson writes in “A Painter’s Country” (pp. 183-184):
“It was the end of August and chilly;…Snow flurries swept over the hills known as the Teshierpi Mountains which protected us from the north. From these hills we could see the Dismal Lakes in the distance. A prospector told me that never were lakes so appropriately named. It was exciting country; with its moss and lichen and small plants turning red and orange, it looked like a rich tapestry; and big boulders were strewn about everywhere….The Barren Lands country was so fascinating that I returned there the following year.”
LOT: 26
Auction: 2017 May | Hodgins Art Auctions