Vendu pour : 34 250 $

PROVENANCE
Estate of a Prominent Collector, Toronto
Sold sale of Canadian Art, Joyner Fine Art, May 16, 1989, lot 100b
Private Collection, Toronto

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854, page 236

“If one advances in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

- Henry David Thoreau

In 1921, J.E.H. MacDonald accepted a teaching position at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, where he would be employed for the remaining decade of his life. He had previously attempted to devote all of his time to painting, but found the financial strain on himself and his family difficult. Painted two years after accepting his teaching role, this work shows the resonance to which MacDonald aspired throughout his life, inspired by Transcendentalist world views such as Henry David Thoreau’s, after whom he named his son. The gestural, spiked flow of clouds in a dazzling sky, the long rows of the field, and the graceful forms of the trees anchored in ultramarine beautifully convey the reverberation of the natural world he sought to express. Although MacDonald experienced many difficulties in his life, the successes he accrued, exemplified in artworks such as this, can now be shared by us all.

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