Artist Roland Gissing
Title Bow River Valley
Media oil on canvas
Size 15.5 x 19.5 in. / 39.4 x 49.5 cm.
Frame Size 22.5 x 26.5 x 2.25 in.
Sold $800
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed lower right; bears title on backing; framed
Provenance
corporate collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Roland Gissing ~ [1895-1967] Canadian ASA
for biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.rolandgissing.com
see Roland Gissing, The People's Painter, by M.Foran, UofC Press, 1988
biography and other examples in
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.278
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.12, Westbridge Pub., 2000;
The Alberta Society of Artists: Sixty Years, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1992
Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955
Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 55, pg. 369, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009
exhibition lists in
R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.149
M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.145
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]