Artist Luke Orton Lindoe
Title Promised Land
Media watercolour on paper
Dated
1948
Size 13.5 x 19.5 in. / 34.3 x 49.5 cm.
Frame Size 23.5 x 28.75 x 1.25 in.
Sold $475
Estimate $800 - $1,000
Notes
signed and dated lower right; bears title on label verso; watercolour sketch of nudes measuring [21.75 x 15 in.] verso; photocopy of nude sketch attached to backing; framed with archival mat; minor handling marks on frame noted
Provenance
from the estate of a prominent Calgary collector of ceramics
Biographical Information
Luke Orton Lindoe ~ [1913-2000] Canadian ASA, CSPWC
see
Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 90, 1986;
Come Walk with Me: A Luke Lindoe Retrospective, by Linda Carney, published by Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, 1992;
Luke Lindoe Retrospective, by Les Graff, published by Nickle Arts Museum, 1998;
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 3, pg. 853;
biography in
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 2, pg. 123, Westbridge Publishing, 2000;
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