Artist Don Proch
Title High Mountain Pass Mask #2/5
Media mixed media
Dated
2000
Size 22 x 12.5 x 5 in. / 55.9 x 31.8 x 12.7 cm.
Sold $2,000
Estimate $2,500 - $3,500
Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered verso; mounted for hanging
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Don Proch ~ [b.1944] Canadian
Born in Hamilton, Ont Proch grew up in rural Manitoba and worked at a grain elevator as a youth. He studied at the University of Manitoba, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 1964 and then a Bachelor’s in Education. He went on to teach highschool art. His work was included in numerous shows at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from the early 1970s onward, and he has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally.
See Don Proch by W.Kirby, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1977; see also Don Proch: Masking and Mapping by Patricia Bovey, University of Manitoba Press, 2019 and reviews of the book at /bordercrossingsmag.com/article/don-proch-masking-and-mapping and www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/books/don-proch; see also a 2021 article about his work at www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2021/12/03/field-of-vision; represented by Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg and Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina; 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