Artist: James Wilson Morrice
Title: THE FERRY, QUEBEC
Date: ca 1943
Medium: colour serigraph on board
Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Notes:
signed in the screen
Note: This is the only work by Morrice included in the Sampson-Matthews collection. The image was produced after a 1907 canvas, which was acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in 1938 (Accession #4301). The print was the first produced for the wartime program, and was released in 1943. A full-page illustration can be found on p. 57 of “Art for War and Peace” (Sigvaldason & Steedman; 2015).
LOT: 93
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Yvonne McKague Housser
Title: INDIAN CHILDREN
Date: ca 1944
Medium: colour serigraph on board
Dimensions: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Notes:
signed in the screen
Note: Yvonne McKague Housser is one of 10 female artists (out of a total of 54) represented in the Sampson-Matthews Collection. She contributed three designs, this one for the wartime program. It depicts two siblings in front of a wooden church at McGregor Bay (on the northern end of Georgian Bay). A full page illustration of this work can be found on p. 67 of “Art for War and Peace” (Sigvaldason & Steedman; 2015).
LOT: 92
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: James Williamson Galloway (Jock) MacDonald
Title: B.C. INDIAN VILLAGE
Date: ca 1943
Medium: colour serigraph on board
Dimensions: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Notes:
signed & dated in the screen
Note: This image was initially produced by MacDonald as a gouache in 1943 (collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Accession # 91.36). MacDonald spent a year living in Nootka Sound (on the west coast of Vancouver Island) in 1935, a region which is home to the Nuu-chah-nulth people. When producing this work, MacDonald returned to the images of nearby Yuquot village for inspiration. This was one of the first works produced for the Sampson-Matthews wartime program, and the only example by Jock MacDonald. A full-page illustration appears on p. 62 of “Art for War and Peace” (Sigvaldason & Steedman; 2015).
LOT: 91
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Alfred Joseph Casson
Title: FOREST EDGE
Medium: colour etching on paper; ed. #98/150
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.25 in. (21.6 x 28.6 cm)
Notes:
signed in pencil by Casson; titled & editioned
LOT: 89
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Peter Deacon
Title: ECLIPSE 1
Date: 1979
Medium: colour etching on paper; ed. #21/50
Dimensions: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled, dated & editioned
LOT: 88
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Walter Drohan
Title: WINTER & DOGWOOD
Date: 1984
Medium: colour woodcut on paper; ed. #6/25
Dimensions: 20.5 x 29.25 in. (52.1 x 74.3 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled, dated & editioned
LOT: 86
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Alfred Joseph Casson
Title: SPARROW LAKE
Medium: colour linocut on rag paper; ed. #237/250
Dimensions: 6.25 x 6.25 in. (15.9 x 15.9 cm)
Notes:
signed in pencil by Casson; titled & editioned
LOT: 85
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Alfred Joseph Casson
Title: GRENADIER POND
Medium: colour linocut on rag paper; ed. #143/250
Dimensions: 5.25 x 5.75 in. (13.3 x 14.6 cm)
Notes:
signed in pencil by Casson; titled & editioned
LOT: 84
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Noboru Sawaii
Title: MATRIMONY
Medium: etching and colour woodcut on paper; ed. #83/100
Dimensions: 18.75 x 23.75 in. (47.6 x 60.3 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & editioned; signed with the artist’s chopmark
LOT: 83
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Mary Anne Ludlam
Title: NEAR MAMALILAKULLA
Date: 1993
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.9 cm)
Notes:
signed; titled & dated on the artist’s label verso
LOT: 128
Auction: 2018 February | Hodgins Art Auctions
