Artist Susan Elkins
Title Mount Assiniboine
Media oil on canvas board
Size 29.75 x 23.75 in. / 75.6 x 60.3 cm.

Notes
ESTIMATED RETAIL VALUE $2,800 - signed lower right; bears title on backing; framed

Reference
PLEASE NOTE: This lot was sold in an online benefit auction where all proceeds went to the Whyte Museum in Banff, Alberta and there was no Buyer's Premium.; Impressionist Susan Elkins paints still life, landscapes and portraits that reflect her appreciation for the traditional methods of the past. It was at The Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she began to develop her sense of colour and realize that it is light and atmosphere that create the colour key in nature which constitute an important element in a painting. Elkins has been developing her understanding of colour to depict the beauty that she sees. Nature's infinite colour schemes are carefully captured to recreate differing light conditions observed by her discerning eye. For the past 20 years she has lived and worked with the natural light of Western Canada.

Provenance
Generously donated by Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff, see website at willockandsaxgallery.com
Estimate CAD$1,400-$2,800

Artist Susan Elkins
Title Moorcroft Vase and Rose
Media oil on wood board
Size 9 x 12 in. / 22.9 x 30.5 cm.

Notes
ESTIMATED RETAIL VALUE $700 - signed lower right; signed and titled on backing; framed

Reference
PLEASE NOTE: This lot was sold in an online benefit auction where all proceeds went to the Whyte Museum in Banff, Alberta and there was no Buyer's Premium.; The oil painting titled Moorcroft and Rose was painted indoors in my Banff studio. I met Catharine Whyte in Banff in the 1970's. She knew of the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a summer school founded in 1899 by teacher Charles Webster Hawthorne. I attended the Cape School of Art in 1968 which was run by Henry Hensche, Hawthorne's assistant.

Provenance
Generously donated by Susan Elkins, see website at susanelkins.ca
Estimate CAD$350-$700