Artist Keith Thomson
Title Deep in a Forest
Media oil on canvas
Size 58 x 32 in. / 147.3 x 81.3 cm.
Sold $2,100
Estimate $2,500 - $3,500
Notes
signed lower right; signed and titled verso; framed
Biographical Information
Keith Thomson ~ [b.1934] Canadian ASA
Thomson grew up in a farming community near Craven, Saskatchewan, in the Qu'Appelle Valley. He graduated in Commercial Art from Alberta College of Art and Design and worked as a commercial artist for several years. He was an instructor at the Alberta College of Art 25 years, teaching life drawing, silkscreen printing and watercolour painting.
biography and another example in Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.102; see Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.55, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977; biography in Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.258, Fifth House Pub., 1994; 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