Ernest Caven Atkins

Canadian (1907 - 2000)

Ernest Caven Atkins was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Ernest Caven Atkins's estimated art value is C$20,000 (*)

Ernest Caven Atkins's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$2,500 - C$25,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Ernest Caven Atkins (1907-2000) was C$23,600 - paid for "Hockey Melee" at Heffel in Vancouver on Wed, May 25, 2016.
ArtValue.ca has 14 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$2,500 to C$25,000.

Cowley Abbott Auction House Biography and Notes

Ernest Caven Atkins was born in London, Ontario in 1907. He studied in Chicago at Meyer Both Commercial Art School in 1924. From 1925 to 1928 he studied under Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald at the Winnipeg School of Art. He taught painting at Queen’s University in 1943 and at the Ontario College of Art in 1945. An authority on painting media he wrote an article for Canadian Art magazine on the cautions to be exercised when using wax, distemper, fresco, egg tempera, oil and watercolours.

(*) Value is calculated as an average of the top oil painting sale records from ArtValue.ca database.
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