Day Dream
21.6 cms x 8.9 cms (8.5 ins x 3.5 ins)
Titled and on verso titled on the exhibition label
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "September 2021 Online auction" held on Thu, Sep 30, 2021.
Lot 121
Lot 121
Estimate: CAD $800 - $1,200
Realised: CAD $500
Realised: CAD $500
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Collection Of Beatrice Lennie
by descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver Island
Exhibitions:
Vancouver Art Gallery, Pioneer Students of Vancouver Art School Club Exhibition, September 17 - 30, 1932
Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 55th Annual Exhibition, 1934
Notes:
Margaret Adelaide Williams was a part of the first graduating class of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (VSDAA) in 1929. She took a particular interest in illuminated paintings, which were included in the design course taught by Grace Wilson Melvin. Melvin came to Vancouver by way of Glasgow, where she was trained in the Art Nouveau style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. She was hired by Charles H. Scott, who, like her, was originally from Scotland.
Following in the tradition of illuminated manuscripts, an art form traditionally used to adorn religious texts, Williams, who also wrote poetry, combined her two disciplines in this work.
When Frederick Varley and Jock Macdonald split off from the VSDAA to set up the British Columbia College of Arts in 1933, Williams was hired as the head of the design department. She went on to show regularly with the Vancouver Art Gallery and the B.C. Society of Fine Arts throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
Collection Of Beatrice Lennie
by descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver Island
Exhibitions:
Vancouver Art Gallery, Pioneer Students of Vancouver Art School Club Exhibition, September 17 - 30, 1932
Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 55th Annual Exhibition, 1934
Notes:
Margaret Adelaide Williams was a part of the first graduating class of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (VSDAA) in 1929. She took a particular interest in illuminated paintings, which were included in the design course taught by Grace Wilson Melvin. Melvin came to Vancouver by way of Glasgow, where she was trained in the Art Nouveau style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. She was hired by Charles H. Scott, who, like her, was originally from Scotland.
Following in the tradition of illuminated manuscripts, an art form traditionally used to adorn religious texts, Williams, who also wrote poetry, combined her two disciplines in this work.
When Frederick Varley and Jock Macdonald split off from the VSDAA to set up the British Columbia College of Arts in 1933, Williams was hired as the head of the design department. She went on to show regularly with the Vancouver Art Gallery and the B.C. Society of Fine Arts throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.