Artist Peter Shostak
Title We Have to Travel by Horse and Sleigh
Media watercolour on paper
Size 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 17.1 x 24.8 cm.
Frame Size 17 x 20 x 1.25 in.
Sold $700
Estimate $300 - $400
Notes
signed lower right; bears title on gallery label verso; framed with archival mat
Provenance
Canada House Gallery, Banff, label verso; from the Estate of Dr. Joan Snyder, a prominent Calgary philanthropist; proceeds from this work will help fulfill Joan's wishes to support the University of Calgary. To read more about Dr. Joan Snyder, visit the University of Calgary's Memoriam
Biographical Information
Peter Shostak ~ [b.1943] Canadian
see artist's website www.petershostak.com; see When Nights Were Long, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1982; Saturday Came but Once a Week, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1984; For Our Children, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1991; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 23, Westbridge Pub., 2003; 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; large exhibition opening Oct. 16, 2014 at West End Gallery, Edmonton