William Hobbs

Canadian (1927 - 2012)

William Hobbs was a Canadian painter.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to William Hobbs (1927-2012) was C$ - paid for "Regina Canadian Pacific Railway Station" at Saskatchewan NAC in Regina on Sun, Oct 16, 2022.
ArtValue.ca has 2 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$10,000 to C$25,000.

Regina Canadian Pacific Railway Station
oil on linen
Dimensions - 76.2 cms x 10,259.06 cms x 124.46 cms (30 ins x 4,039 ins x 30 ins)

Lot for sale by Saskatchewan NAC Auction House, Regina
Lot# 1
Sun, Oct 16, 2022

Estimate $10,000 - $15,000
(Not sold)

William G. Hobbs was born in Alderney, Channel Islands, in 1927. Despite demonstrating talent as an artists, Hobbs graduated from Bristol University as a general practitioner in medicine in 1950. In 1959 he emigrated to Canada and settled in Gainsborough, Saskatchewan, becoming a respected physician and surgeon in Southeast Saskatchewan. During his medical career he continued to paint and to study, attending the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Emma Lake workshops hosted by University of Saskatchewan. Hobbs is particularly renowned for his paintings of prairie train stations, which have been widely exhibited, published and collected by public institutions. William Hobbs died in Brandon, Manitoba in 2012.

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