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PROVENANCE
The Isaacs Gallery Ltd., Toronto
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, 1978
Private Collection, British Columbia

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Joan Murray and William Kurelek, Kurelek’s Vision of Canada, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1983, page 75

EXPOSITION
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, William Kurelek: A Point of View, Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, 1969

Regarding the time he spent working in the Canadian Arctic, William Kurelek said: “The first problem was painting in the sun. It’s hard to paint the sun, specially here…The glare is so strong, all the landscape—sky, as well as snowhills—are a blinding white and if I look through sunglasses the elements regain their distinction but then the colour values are knocked askew.” Kurelek’s words describe the difficulty of capturing the essence and feel of this all-white landscape. In this particular work, he has solved the problem skilfully by placing a bright orange mitten on the hillside in contrast. The footprints, pressed deeply into the drifted snow, the brilliant spot of colour at the centre of the scene, and the inspired addition of what may be Kurelek’s own shadow cast on the snow allow “the elements [to] regain their distinction” against the subtle varieties of white and blue that his keenly observant artist’s eye wished to accurately capture.

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