Artist Karl E. Wood
Title Circle Bar Ranch
Media oil on canvas board
Size 10 x 14 in. / 25.4 x 35.6 cm.
Sold $425
Estimate $350 - $400
Notes
signed lower left; titled and inscribed 'The old site - approx. 40 mi. west of Clinton B.C.' verso; unframed
Biographical Information
Karl E. Wood ~ [1944-1990] Canadian
Wood was born in Winnipeg and began his artistic career in Vancouver in 1964. He moved to the Ghost River region near Cochrane, Alberta about 1984. His artistic practise was devoted to the mountain landscapes and flora and fauna of western Canada and he often painted on location in the backcountry. Karl Wood's father, Robert E. Wood, was an artist and his son, Robert Wood, is also a painter.
For more biographical information and examples of work see Karl Wood and Koyman Galleries; biography and another example in Contemporary Western Artists, by P.Samuels, pg.586, Bonanza Books, 1982; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.113, Westbridge Pub., 2003; 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
Artists in Canada