Artist Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka
Title The Western Gate N.E. #5/11
Media colour silkscreen on paper
Size 21 x 19 in. / 53.3 x 48.3 cm.
Frame Size 29.25 x 27.25 x 1 in.
Sold $500
Estimate $900 - $1,200
Notes
signed, titled and numbered along bottom; signed, titled and numbered on label verso; framed; crack in glass noted lower left
Provenance
from the estate of Henry Beaumont, Calgary
Biographical Information
Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka ~ [1928-2022] Canadian ASA, RCA
Kiyooka was one of the founders of Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre and Sculpture Park in Springbank, Alberta. KOAC is a contemporary art centre founded by Harry with Katie Ohe where visitors can view an impressive collection of outdoor sculptures while enjoying the sanctuary of the natural environment. For extensive biographical information and examples of the artist's work see koartscentre.org
see Harry Kiyooka Paintings and Drawings 1953-1978 by Ron Moppett, published by Alberta College of Art, 1978; A Parallax: Roy Kiyooka - Harry Kiyooka published by Herringer Kiss Gallery, 2014; included in The Shell Canada Collection, by Basil Shammas, pg. 27, published by Shell Oil, 1977; Artists of Alberta, by Suzanne Devonshire Baker, pg. 90, published by University of Alberta Press, 1980; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by Bente Roed Cochran, pg. 91-93, 1989; biography in MacDonald, Vol. 3, pg. 649 and Westbridge, Vol. 2, pg. 96; included in the University of Calgary Millenium Portfolio, 1999, as a faculty member; 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 at app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/description-about.app?lang=en