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PROVENANCE
Private Collection
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, February 18, 1969
Collection of Mrs. François Dupré, September 15, 1971
Private Collection, Vancouver

Frederick Coburn left his village in rural Quebec for Europe in 1889, studying in Berlin, Munich, Paris and Antwerp. Although he returned periodically to Quebec, it was not until 1914 – with the war blocking his return to Antwerp – that he settled in Canada permanently. He opened a studio in Montreal while residing in the town of Upper Melbourne. Coburn soon became one of the quintessential painters of the Canadian landscape. Fine techniques developed in Europe, his affection for the Eastern Townships and its working people along with his sensitivity to light effects merged together into his most indelible image, the horse-drawn sleigh hauling lumber in winter. Winter Morning, Quebec has all the classic elements of this subject – blue-shadowed snow, a fine view of open countryside, and the invigorating atmosphere of a bright winter day with the team winding along a wooded path. It also includes one of Coburn’s favourite devices – contrasting a dark with a white horse. With paintings such as Winter Morning, Quebec, Coburn distilled the living essence of Quebec’s hardy, self-sufficient people working in harmony with nature in a time before mechanization.

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