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LOT 147

ARCA CSPWC G7 OSA
1888 - 1949
Canadien

A Canyon Wall, Algoma
tempera sur panneau
signé et daté et au verso titré et daté
19 1/2 x 14 5/8 po, 49.5 x 37.1 cm

Estimation : 20 000 $ - 30 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 34 250 $

Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton

PROVENANCE
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary
Private Collection, Ontario

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Roger Burford Mason, A Grand Eye for Glory: A Life of Franz Johnston, 1998, page 32


Frank Johnston participated in three of the four Group of Seven journeys to Algoma: the 1918 and 1919 fall boxcar trips and the fall of 1920 trip, based at Mongoose Lake. The boxcar trips were the stuff of legend – Lawren Harris arranged the use of an Algoma Central Railway car, specially outfitted with bunks, chairs, a water tank, a stove and bookshelves. Railcar 10557 was transported along the railway to remote locations, and as J.E.H. MacDonald commented, “That figure became our street number on the long way of the wilderness.” Johnston was an enthusiastic participant in the sketching forays into the spectacular surroundings and in the nighttime painting “crits” and discussions about painting and the character of the country.

During the 1918 trip, the artists painted the wild grandeur of Agawa Canyon. It is possible that this striking work was based on a plein air sketch of a canyon hillside there. The perspective looking up is marvellous, as the landscape ascends from a tumble of rocks through trees and shrubs, interspersed with rocky shelves, to a blue sky with dreamy cloud formations rising over the top of the hill. This gloriously atmospheric painting is executed in tempera, a medium in which Johnston was considered a master practitioner.


Estimation : 20 000 $ - 30 000 $ CAD

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