Artist Illingworth Holey Kerr
Title Blessing of the Fleet, Provincetown, Mass.
Media graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Dated
1954
Size 12.75 x 16.5 in. / 32.4 x 41.9 cm.
Sold $75
Estimate $200 - $300
Notes
signed with monogram, titled and dated lower right; unframed; some tears and handling marks noted
Provenance
ex-collection artist Stanford Perrott and by descent
Biographical Information
Illingworth Holey Kerr ~ [1905-1989] Canadian ASA, RCA
see Harvest of the Spirit, by M.Callahan, E.A.G., 1985 and Paint and Circumstance, by I.Kerr, Calgary, 1987; N.G.C. Vol.2 G-K, ed.C.Hill, pg.368; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.87; Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.137, Fifth House Pub., 1994; Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.3, pg.633; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.91, Westbridge Pub., 2000; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website