Artist Frank Leonard Brooks
Title Sienna
Media pastel on paper
Dated
1961
Size 18 x 24.25 in. / 45.7 x 61.6 cm.
Frame Size 24.75 x 30.5 x 1.25 in.
Sold $220
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed, titled and dated along bottom; framed
Provenance
Kensington Gallery, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Frank Leonard Brooks ~ [1911-2011] Canadian CPE, CSGA, OSA, RCA
see Leonard and Riva Brooks, Artists in Exile in San Miguel de Allende, by J.Virtue, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001; Leonard Brooks, 1950-1984, by the Canadian Embassy for Mexico, 1984; N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.139; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.48; Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.1, pg.91; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.47, Westbridge Pub., 1999; author of The Many Ways of Water & Colour, North Light Pub.,1977; and Oil Painting, Traditional and New, Reinhold Pub., 1995; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.48 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.45; 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