The Earth Returns to Life
81.3 cms x 101.6 cms (32 ins x 40 ins)
Signed and dated 1958 and on verso signed, titled and inscribed "1923 main st., niagara falls, ont." and "49:59" on the stretcher
made in 1958
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Fall 2009 Live auction" held on Thu, Nov 26, 2009.
Lot 049
Lot 049
Estimate: CAD $5,000 - $7,000
Realised: CAD $8,775
Realised: CAD $8,775
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
James Goodman Gallery Inc., New York
Mr. Schoellkopf, Niagara Falls
Private Collection, Georgia
Notes:
Tony Urquhart was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario in 1934. He studied at the Albright Art School at the State University of New York and taught at the University of Waterloo from 1972 until his retirement in 1999. Urquhart gained recognition early in his career with abstract works exhibited at The Isaacs Gallery in Toronto. His paintings, self-described as landscapes, are ambiguous representations of the natural world and are often fictitious or vaguely based on memory. Urquhart is known to have an interest in man's effect on the landscape, and in The Earth Returns to Life, painted directly on bare canvas, he fuses elements from both untouched nature and man's cultivation of nature by including both hovering tree forms and disappearing fence lines. As well as being a successful painter, Urquhart is also a sculptor and an illustrator, and his works have been featured on the covers of books by his wife Jane Urquhart, as well as by Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry.
James Goodman Gallery Inc., New York
Mr. Schoellkopf, Niagara Falls
Private Collection, Georgia
Notes:
Tony Urquhart was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario in 1934. He studied at the Albright Art School at the State University of New York and taught at the University of Waterloo from 1972 until his retirement in 1999. Urquhart gained recognition early in his career with abstract works exhibited at The Isaacs Gallery in Toronto. His paintings, self-described as landscapes, are ambiguous representations of the natural world and are often fictitious or vaguely based on memory. Urquhart is known to have an interest in man's effect on the landscape, and in The Earth Returns to Life, painted directly on bare canvas, he fuses elements from both untouched nature and man's cultivation of nature by including both hovering tree forms and disappearing fence lines. As well as being a successful painter, Urquhart is also a sculptor and an illustrator, and his works have been featured on the covers of books by his wife Jane Urquhart, as well as by Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry.
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