Pages From a Summer Sketchbook
22.86 cms x 34.54 cms (9 ins x 13.6 ins)
Lot offered for sale by Saskatchewan NAC, Regina at the auction event "Canadian And International Prints" held on Sat, May 16, 2020.
Lot 192
Lot 192
Estimate: CAD $70 - $100
Realised: CAD $28
Realised: CAD $28
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Six pen and ink drawings reproduced in a limited edition by Saskatoon Gallery and Conservatory Corporation Mendel Art Gallery Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Notes:
Saskatchewan NAC bio: Reta Cowley, born 1910 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, worked exclusively as a teacher from 1930 to 1937, when she was urged by her sister to attend a summer art course at Emma Lake. Cowley studied painting with Augustus Kenderdine and art history with Gordon Snelgrove until 1940, and then moved on to the Banff School of Fine Arts in the 1940s and the University of Saskatchewan in the 1950s. Cowley had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of her watercolour landscapes and portraits, many of which she painted outdoors rather than in a studio. Her style - a combination of American modernism and British naturalism - has been compared to that of Walter J. Phillips and David Milne. Cowley continued to teach, including at Emma Lake and at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1990, she received the Saskatchewan Arts Board's Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. Cowley died in 2004.
Six pen and ink drawings reproduced in a limited edition by Saskatoon Gallery and Conservatory Corporation Mendel Art Gallery Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Notes:
Saskatchewan NAC bio: Reta Cowley, born 1910 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, worked exclusively as a teacher from 1930 to 1937, when she was urged by her sister to attend a summer art course at Emma Lake. Cowley studied painting with Augustus Kenderdine and art history with Gordon Snelgrove until 1940, and then moved on to the Banff School of Fine Arts in the 1940s and the University of Saskatchewan in the 1950s. Cowley had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of her watercolour landscapes and portraits, many of which she painted outdoors rather than in a studio. Her style - a combination of American modernism and British naturalism - has been compared to that of Walter J. Phillips and David Milne. Cowley continued to teach, including at Emma Lake and at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1990, she received the Saskatchewan Arts Board's Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. Cowley died in 2004.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.