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Lot #514

Artist Margaret Shelton
Title St. Georges, Banff #88/100
Media lino block in six colours on paper
Dated 1944
Size 4 x 5.25 in. / 10.2 x 13.3 cm.
Frame Size 9.75 x 10.75 x 0.75 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed, titled, dated '49' and numbered along bottom; framed; some minor yellowing along margins noted

Reference
MSBP #87 ed:300)

Provenance
private collection, British Columbia

Hammer $950 Estimate $600/$800

Biographical Information
Margaret Shelton ~ [1915-1984] Canadian ASA, CPE
Margaret Shelton: Block Prints 1936-1984, by P.Ainslie [MSBP#], Glenbow Museum [no date]; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.132; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.90; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.43, U of C Press; biographies in Westbridge,Vol.4, pg.507 and North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed.J.Heller, pg.507, Garland Pub., 1995

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