Artist Allan Harding MacKay
Title Untitled - Portrait of a Red Head
Media mixed media encaustic on paper
Size 17 x 11 in. / 43.2 x 27.9 cm.
Sold $85
Estimate $200 - $300
Notes
unsigned; unframed
Provenance
private collection, Montreal
Biographical Information
Allan Harding MacKay ~ [b.1944] Canadian ASNSCA 1967, RCA
Allan Harding MacKay has over the span of his visual arts career, accumulated extensive and multifaceted credentials as professional artist, gallery director, curator, and arts administrator. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and is represented in public ,private and corporate collections. He has served as a visiting artist, resident artist and lecturer at several Canadian universities, art colleges, public galleries and national conferences and has been awarded numerous artist grants by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Alberta Foundation of the Arts. His public art includes 4 commissions and he also participated in two war artist assignments in Somalia 1993 and Afghanistan 2002. Presently lives and maintains a studio in Halifax ,Nova Scotia, Canada.
see artist's web site at allanhardingmackay.ca
former Executive Director of Southern Alberta Art Gallery
see Source / Derivations: Allan Harding MacKay, by R.Stacey, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1998; included in Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998, by C.Crowston/C.Mastin, pg.29, E.A.G. and Glenbow Museum, 1998