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Lot #109

Artist Luke Orton Lindoe
Title On the Canyon Floor
Media oil on wood board
Dated 1984
Size 48 x 30 in. / 121.9 x 76.2 cm.
Frame Size 50.75 x 33 x 1 in.

Notes
signed and dated lower left; titled verso; framed; some scratches noted centre left; handling marks on frame noted

Reference
illustrated on page 63 and excerpt by Lindoe 'This is a panel lifted out of Thinking Place [a painting not in the exhibit]. I feel that my paintings are really not at my best unless my design and my intimacy with nature are combined.' in Come Walk with Me: A Luke Lindoe Retrospective, published by the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, 1992)

Provenance
Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, label verso; corporate collection, Calgary

Sold $7,020 Estimate $5,000/$7,000

Biographical Information
Luke Orton Lindoe ~ [1913-2000] Canadian ASA, CSPWC
see Come Walk with Me: A Luke Lindoe Retrospective, by L.Carney, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, 1992; Luke Lindoe Retrospective, by L.Graff, Nickle Arts Museum, 1998; Founders of the A.C.A., by L.Greenfield, pg.90 and Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.3, by C.MacDonald, pg.853; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg. 123, Westbridge Pub., 2000 for biography; 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

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