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Lot #508

Artist Clifford Foard Robinson
Title Alberta Rural #18/25
Media lino block on paper
Size 19.75 x 15 in. / 50.2 x 38.1 cm.
Frame Size 29.75 x 25 x 1.5 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed with artist's chop in block lower right; signed, titled and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat; some chips and handling marks on frame noted

Provenance
Masters Gallery, Calgary, label verso; from a Kelowna estate

Hammer $1,600 Estimate $500/$700

Biographical Information
Clifford Foard Robinson ~ [1917-1992] Canadian ASA, CSGA, FCA
see Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.119; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.93; The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect, by A.Oko, pg.76, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1981; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.27, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; see Printmaking in B.C. 1883-1983, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V.; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.108, Westbridge Pub., 2001; Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.109; the proper spelling according to the family is Foard and not Feard which possibly resulted from the artists hand written biographical information sent to the National Gallery

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