Artist William [Billy] J. McCarroll
Title Weight is More on the Heels [Red] #12/50
Media offset lithograph
Dated
2000
Size 10.25 x 20.5 x 1 in. / 26 x 52.1 x 2.5 cm.
Frame Size 23.5 x 34 x 1 in.
Sold $210
Estimate $300 - $600
Notes
signed and numbered along bottom; bears title on label verso; framed with archival mat and special glass
Provenance
donated by the artist; proceeds from this work go to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery [SAAG], Lethbridge - for more information on the gallery, visit saag.ca
Biographical Information
William [Billy] J. McCarroll ~ [b.1937] Canadian
Originally from southern California, McCarroll moved to Canada in 1971 to teach art in Lethbridge, eventually becoming a Professor Emeritus at the University of Lethbridge and founding their art gallery along the way. His diverse works as a printmaker and painter range from irreverent pieces with golf as a theme to layered abstracts that emphsize pure colour and paint-handling.
See article on a 2011 show surveying 40 years of McCarroll's work at Southern Alberta Art Gallery at www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/playing-through and many more examples of his abstract works at norberghall.com/portfolio/billy-mccarroll;
biography and another example in Survey Alberta 88, by A.MacKay, pg.37, Alberta College of Art, 1988; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website at app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/description-about.app?lang=en