Artist Roland Gissing
Title Winter Evening in the Foothills
Media oil on canvas
Dated
1950 -'s
Size 23.5 x 29.5 in. / 59.7 x 74.9 cm.
Frame Size 34 x 40 x 2.5 in.
Sold $2,750
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
Notes
signed lower right; bears title on gallery label verso; framed; some minor cracking noted
Provenance
Alex Fraser, Vancouver and Masters Gallery, Calgary, labels verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Roland Gissing ~ [1895-1967] Canadian ASA
for biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.rolandgissing.com; see Roland Gissing, The People's Painter, by M.Foran, UofC Press, 1988 for many examples of the artist's work; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.278 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.12, Westbridge Pub., 2000; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.149 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.145; included in The Alberta Society of Artists: Sixty Years, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1992; Colgate, pg.184; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; see Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 55, pg. 369, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009; 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