Artist Marion Florence Nicoll
Title Old House - Bowness
Media watercolour on paper
Dated
1935
Size 9.25 x 13.5 in. / 23.5 x 34.3 cm.
Frame Size 16.75 x 20.5 x 1 in.
Sold $800
Estimate $800 - $1,000
Notes
signed 'M. Mackay' [artist's maiden name] and dated lower right; bears title on label verso; framed
Reference
lot includes receipt and exhibition pamphlet from Masters Gallery, Calgary
Provenance
from the estate of Frank and Frances Staplin, Calgary
Biographical Information
Marion Florence Nicoll ~ [1909-1985] Canadian ASA, RCA
see
Marion Nicoll, A Retrospective 1959-1979, by Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975;
Marion Nicoll R.C.A., by J. Brooks Joyner, published by Masters Gallery, 1979;
Marion Nicoll, Art and Influences, by Christopher E. Jackson, published by Glenbow Museum, 1986;
Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy, by Ann Davis and Elizabeth Herbert, published by University of Calgary Press, 2013;
included in
Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by Bente Roed Cochran, pg. 110-112, 1989;
biographies in
Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 94, 1986;
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, edited by Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, pg. 406-407, Garland Publishing, 1995;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 3, pg. 54, Westbridge Publishing, 2001;
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 5, pg. 1383;
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