Media watercolour on paper
Dated
1922
Size 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 21.6 x 29.8 cm.
Frame Size 16.75 x 19 x 0.75 in.
Sold $450
Estimate $300 - $400
Notes
signed and dated lower right; bears title and inscription on gallery label verso; framed with archival mat
Provenance
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal, label verso; from a Calgary estate
Biographical Information
Thomas Mower Martin ~ [1838-1934] Canadian OSA, RCA
see The Father of Canadian Art, Thomas Mower Martin, by T.Graeme, T and T Enertprises, Sidney, 2009; N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.208; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.299; R.O.M. Canadian Watercolours, by M.Allodi; biographies in E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.217; MacDonald, Vol.4, pg.1113 and Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.16, Westbridge Pub.; founding member of the O.S.A. and charter member of the R.C.A.; see also Canadian Landscape Painters, by A.Robson, pg.42, Ryerson Press, 1932 and Canadian Art: Its Origin and Development, by W.Colgate, pg.24; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.271 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.255