William (H.W.) Townsend

Canadian (1909 - 1973)

William (H.W.) Townsend was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, William (H.W.) Townsend's estimated art value is C$1,000 (*)

William (H.W.) Townsend's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$50 - C$10,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to William (H.W.) Townsend (1909-1973) was C$6,490 - paid for "Springtime, Lake Louise (03191/348)" at Heffel in Vancouver on Wed, Apr 20, 2016.
ArtValue.ca has 16 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$50 to C$10,000.

Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes

From the early 1950s, William Townsend spent most summers in Canada, teaching at the Banff School, eventually advising on, and contributing to, its development into the internationally significant Banff Centre of today. As an artist his encounter with Canada was transformative. He relished the struggle to understand the mountains around Banff, to reconcile the drama of their shifting appearances with the solidity of their forms. While Artist in Residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, 1963-4, the equivalent challenge was to understand the distortions and tricks of light, colour and distance on the developing cityscape. The largest of his Edmonton series, Southeast from 110th Street VI, is in the collection of the Canadian Embassy in Washington.

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