Artist: David Lloyd Blackwood
Title: WESLEYVILLE: MARCH ICE RAFT
Date: 1981
Medium: etching with aquatint on paper; ed. #14/50
Dimensions: 19.75 x 31.75 in. (50.2 x 80.6 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled, dated & editioned
Note: This work is illustrated on pp. 24-25 of “David Blackwood: Master Printmaker” (Gough; Firefly Books, 2001)
LOT: 49
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: David Burdeny
Title: MID-DAY GREY-ANTARCTICA
Date: 2007 (2008)
Medium: chromogenic print on paper; ed. #3/7
Dimensions: 12 x 36 in. (30.5 x 91.4 cm)
Notes:
signed in pen, titled & dated on the artist’s label verso of the work
LOT: 48
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Melville McLean
Title: BRANCH HEAD
Date: 1999
Medium: fuji crystal archive c-print; ed. #4/25
Dimensions: 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm)
Notes:
signed & editioned
Provenance: Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto ON
LOT: 47
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Wilf Perreault
Title: X-FENCE
Date: 1996
Medium: acrylic & flocking on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 72 in. (61 x 182.9 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 46
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Steve Coffey
Title: ELEVATOR ALLEY
Date: 2006
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 48 in. (76.2 x 121.9 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 44
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: William (Bill) Duma
Title: ALONG JUMPING POUND RIVER
Date: 1981
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 43
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Greg Hardy
Title: LATE OCTOBER
Date: 1982
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 x 55 in. (91.4 x 139.7 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
LOT: 42
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Dorothy Elsie Knowles
Title: SUNDAY AT THE LEIGHTON CENTRE
Date: 1989
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.9 x 74.9 cm)
Notes:
signed & dated
LOT: 41
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Wynona Croft Mulcaster
Title: THE LAKE
Date: 1979
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35.25 x 45.5 in. (89.5 x 115.6 cm)
Notes:
signed & titled
LOT: 40
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
Artist: Takao Tanabe
Title: THE LAND, BANFF SERIES
Date: 1973
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 42 x 84 in. (106.7 x 213.4 cm)
Notes:
signed, titled & dated
Provenance: Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto ON; Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto ON (labels verso)
Takao Tanabe is one of Canada’s most important contemporary painters. Having successfully experimented with various types of abstraction beginning in the 1950s, his work evolved into his now well-recognized minimalist landscapes. Tanabe has exhibited for over six decades, and his distinguished career as an arts educator and arts advocate have earned him both the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. He was associated with the Banff School of Fine Arts (now the Banff Centre) from 1973-1980, where he headed the Art Department and was an artist-in-residence. Tanabe brought new vitality to the painting program in Banff and turned his attention to the landscape there, developing a well-known series of prairie paintings.
A Tanabe landscape is uniquely his own: stripping away non-essential details and creating serene compositions; rewarding long, considered viewings and contemplation. Appreciated for their transcendent light and atmosphere, these landscapes range from delicate and misty, to stormy and brooding, offering fluctuations within the same piece depending on the viewer. Tanabe, in a 2014 interview published in the National Gallery of Canada Magazine, explains:
I decide to paint a landscape and I am a Minimalist type of painter. But I avoid the manmade stuff which is the railway lines, the telephone poles, the grain elevators and cows. I didn’t put in any cows. So essentially, it’s stripped down human intervention to the basic, which is kind of just patterning the landscape……..It might be my old age. But the whole idea is Mother Nature, not human intervention, that I see and try to paint.
LOT: 39
Auction: 2018 May | Hodgins Art Auctions
