Artist Allen Sapp
Title Planting Potatoes
Media acrylic on canvas
Dated
1983
Size 16 x 12.25 in. / 40.6 x 31.1 cm.
Frame Size 26 x 22 x 1.75 in.
Sold $2,300
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Notes
signed lower right; bears title and date on labels verso; framed
Provenance
from a Saskatchewan estate
Biographical Information
Allen Sapp ~ [1929-2015] Canadian RCA
see artist's website www.allensapp.com
see Cree Life - the Art of Allen Sapp, published by J. Warner, Douglas Ltd., 1977; Two Spirits Soar - The Art of Allen Sapp, The Inspiration of Allan Gonor, by W.P. Kinsella, published by Stoddart, 1990; Kiskayetum - Allen Sapp: - Retrospective, by Bob Boyer, published by MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1994; The Song Within My Heart, David Bouchard, published by Raincoast Books, 2002;
Nokum is My Teacher, by David Bouchard, Red Deer Press, 2006; included in Time for Dialogue, by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, pg. 19, published by Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992; biographies in Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by Marketa Newman, pg. 223, published by Fifth House, 1994; Westbridge, Vol. 4, pg. 4; 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