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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Toronto
Private Collection, Yukon

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Paul Duval, A.J. Casson, Roberts Gallery, 1975, page 128

Lake Baptiste was one of A.J. Casson’s principal painting places from 1953 through 1955. Paul Duval writes of Casson's visits to this location, “In late September or early October, he would rent a small cottage on the lake with a few artist friends and spend a couple of weeks there. His enthusiasm for the area was such that in some years he would make a second trip, in summer...Some of Casson’s finest canvases were based on sketches done at Lake Baptiste.” Cabins and old farmhouses often appear in Casson’s rural Ontario scenes, and here his depiction of the weathered surfaces of the buildings is very natural. To add to the visual interest, there is a trace of the fracturing of planes that Casson used in his more cubist-style works, in the sky and the roof of the cabin. Casson’s use of light crackles with contrasts – brilliant sunshine floods the log cabin and outlying buildings, while storm clouds vie with billowing white cumulus clouds overhead. Through this clarity and vitality of atmosphere, Casson makes you feel you are there, anticipating the oncoming weather.

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