Sold for: $9,735

PROVENANCE
Douglas Duncan Picture Loan Society, Toronto
Robertson Galleries, Ottawa
Alex Fraser Galleries, Vancouver
Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Ian M. Thom, editor, David Milne, Vancouver Art Gallery and McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1991, page 153
David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume 2: 1929 - 1953, 1998, reproduced page 660, catalogue #306.11

EXHIBITED
Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, Drawings and Water Colours by David Milne and LeMoine FitzGerald, September 25 - October 7, 1967, catalogue #34

David Milne moved to Six Mile Lake in Muskoka in 1933, building a cabin in an isolated spot near Big Chute. He was painting the same kind of landscape he had known previously at Temagami - forest, rock, islands, points and headlands. Showing his woodsy Canadian pluck, here he depicted his rendering of maple syrup over an open campfire. This was a frequent practice - revealed in a 1935 quote: "This morning I loaded the sled with the painting and syrup making outfits...I had to go about half a mile from the cabin, to Rattlesnake Pete's Sugar Bush...Today I did fairly well...I tapped the bush in the morning and in the afternoon I painted it."

After a twelve-year hiatus, Milne returned to the medium of watercolour in the summer of 1937, using fluid washes and a seemingly casual approach to line and form, which, given Milne's command of the medium, was anything but. Here Milne uses fluid black outlines to define form, adding a wash of bright blue and dashes of red and orange contrasted to white bare paper, in a watercolour both effortless and evocative.

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