PROVENANCE
A gift from the Artist to his niece, Isabel Coburn Riddel
By descent to the present Private Collection, Washington, USA

LITERATURE
Evelyn Lloyd Coburn, F.S. Coburn: Beyond the Landscape, 1996, a similar 1923 oil entitled Hauling the Logs on a Winter Road in Quebec in the collection of the Musée du Québec reproduced page 80 and a similar 1929 oil entitled Winter Landscape with Oxen, in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts reproduced page 91

Once Frederick Coburn had returned from his studies in Europe, he established his studio in his home town of Upper Melbourne in Quebec in 1914. Coburn had a high regard for Canadian Impressionist painter Maurice Cullen, who influenced him to use the skills he had acquired in Europe to depict the invigorating atmosphere and bright light of Quebec's landscape. Coburn was already pursuing images of the countryside around him, when he had a moment of crystallization gazing out his studio window one winter day. He saw a team of horses hauling a sledge loaded with logs on its way to the nearby sawmill at Kingsbury, and it struck him with such inspiration that activities such as this became a central theme in his work. As Evelyn Coburn relates, "the consummation of all his years of training - the knowledge he had acquired of composition, colour, anatomy and rhythm - was about to manifest itself in paintings that would one day be appreciated nationally and internationally as depicting the very spirit of rural Quebec, the heartland of the Canadian winter."

This work possesses a complete provenance, having been in the family of the artist until now.

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