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Historical Canadian Art
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LOT 403

OSA RCA SCA
1846 - 1923
Canadian

Golden Sunlight, Lake Louise
oil on canvas, circa 1912
signed and on verso titled on the exhibition label
26 x 31 3/4 in, 66 x 80.6 cm

Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000 CAD

Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Toronto.
Estate of Lady Flora Eaton
Acquired at the sale of the Lady Eaton Estate, Ward-Price Auctions, Toronto, November 17, 1971 by a Private Collector, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Roger Boulet, Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1977, page 153

EXHIBITED
Art Association of Montreal, 36th Spring Exhibition, 1919
Art Gallery of Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by F. M. Bell-Smith, RCA, OSA, 1923


An initiative organized by the Canadian Pacific Railway which provided complimentary train passes to artists in exchange for promotional paintings of the scenery, enabled Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith to travel west across Canada and paint the striking landscapes that he encountered.

In Bell-Smith’s article An Artist Reminisces, for the Canadian Alpine Journal in 1918, Bell-Smith stated, “Some of my pleasantest recollections are of the early days at Lake Louise. My first visit to that charming spot was in 1889...” From then on, Bell-Smith returned to the West to paint each year. Although other artists described how difficult it was to depict the mountains, Bell-Smith was undaunted by their towering scale. He painted Lake Louise and the surrounding Rocky mountains several times from various angles. The Rockies became one of his most well-known subjects, and Lake Louise was one of his favourites.

As well as showing his ability to render the textures of the mountains surrounding Lake Louise, Golden Sunlight, Lake Louise, demonstrates the artist’s sensitivity to the environment through his depiction of the glowing sun rays that pour down and shimmer across the water’s surface. The artist knew that weather conditions always altered the landscape, so he could paint the same view and attain a different atmospheric effect each time.


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