Pond Inlet with Floes on the Mud
152.4 cms x 213.3 cms (60 ins x 84 ins)
Signed and on verso titled, dated 1981 on the gallery label and inscribed "810329"
made in 1981
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "November 2013 Online auction" held on Sat, Nov 30, 2013.
Lot 220
Lot 220
Estimate: CAD $25,000 - $35,000
Realised: CAD $26,325
Realised: CAD $26,325
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Aggregation Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario
Literature:
Doris McCarthy, William L. Moore and Stuart Reid, Celebrating Life: The Art of Doris McCarthy, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1999, reproduced page 207
Notes:
Doris McCarthy's landscape work was influenced by the revolutionary Group of Seven. Her love of nature infused her painting, and like the Group, she sketched en plein air. Based in Toronto, she was involved with the art societies there, such as the Ontario Society of Artists, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and the Royal Canadian Academy. After retiring in 1972 from 40 years as an art teacher in Toronto's Technical School, McCarthy was free to travel farther afield to paint, and her sketching trips to the Arctic began that same year. She visited sites such as Grise Fiord and Pond Inlet, and had a passion for this unique landscape, declaring, "In my first year in the Arctic I met my very first iceberg and I went crazy about icebergs." She went to the Arctic almost every year in the 1970s, and in 1981 traveled to Broughton Island. McCarthy's strong sense of form, characteristic of her oeuvre, manifests here in the solid, sculpted shapes of the ice pans, backed by a distant mountain range. Her sense of this unique place manifests in the strong clear light of the North and the feeling of a vast and powerful land.
Aggregation Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario
Literature:
Doris McCarthy, William L. Moore and Stuart Reid, Celebrating Life: The Art of Doris McCarthy, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1999, reproduced page 207
Notes:
Doris McCarthy's landscape work was influenced by the revolutionary Group of Seven. Her love of nature infused her painting, and like the Group, she sketched en plein air. Based in Toronto, she was involved with the art societies there, such as the Ontario Society of Artists, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and the Royal Canadian Academy. After retiring in 1972 from 40 years as an art teacher in Toronto's Technical School, McCarthy was free to travel farther afield to paint, and her sketching trips to the Arctic began that same year. She visited sites such as Grise Fiord and Pond Inlet, and had a passion for this unique landscape, declaring, "In my first year in the Arctic I met my very first iceberg and I went crazy about icebergs." She went to the Arctic almost every year in the 1970s, and in 1981 traveled to Broughton Island. McCarthy's strong sense of form, characteristic of her oeuvre, manifests here in the solid, sculpted shapes of the ice pans, backed by a distant mountain range. Her sense of this unique place manifests in the strong clear light of the North and the feeling of a vast and powerful land.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
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