Walter Hawley Yarwood

Canadian (1917 - 1996)

Walter Hawley Yarwood was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Walter Hawley Yarwood's estimated art value is C$30,000 (*)

Walter Hawley Yarwood's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$10,000 - C$100,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Walter Hawley Yarwood (1917-1996) was C$64,900 - paid for "Untitled, 1958" at Waddington's in Toronto on Mon, Nov 25, 2013.
ArtValue.ca has 44 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$10,000 to C$100,000.

Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes

It was his great friend Oscar Cahén who invited Walter Yarwood to join a meeting of the artists who had participated in the 1953 Abstracts at Home show at the Simpson's department store. At that meeting, Yarwood, Harold Town, Jock Macdonald and Hortense Gordon formed Painters Eleven, a group that came to define the early post-war period of Toronto-based abstract painters. This was a comfortable fit for Yarwood, who, like most of his peers, was earning his living as a graphic artist but strove to have his works more widely shown. Yarwood was soon included in many Painters Eleven exhibitions, including a 1956 Riverside Museum show in New York City. He became a regular exhibitor with the Canadian Group of Painters, showing works inspired by themes of gardens and organic growth. Spring Tree is one of those works, painted around the time of Yarwood's two-person exhibition with Ray Mead at Avrom Isaacs's Greenwich Gallery in 1957. His canvases from this period stand out for their distinctive palette of varied reds, blues and purples and his unabashed application of white pigments, as seen in our blossoming Spring Tree.

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