Artist Illingworth Holey Kerr
Title Foothill Road, Winter Night
Media oil on canvas
Dated
1974
Size 18 x 24 in. / 45.7 x 61 cm.
Frame Size 25 x 31 x 2 in.
Notes
signed with monogram lower right; signed, titled and dated verso; framed; some minor handling marks on frame noted
Reference
according to the consignor this was exhibited at the Canadian Embassy in Japan in the late 1970s)
Provenance
purchased directly from the artist; private collection, Dr. D.R. Yadav, Calgary
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