Artist Thoreau MacDonald
Title Caribou in Winter
Media colour silkscreen on paper
Dated
ca. 1930
Size 8 x 9.75 in. / 20.3 x 24.8 cm.
Frame Size 17.5 x 19 x 1.25 in.
Sold $350
Estimate $300 - $400
Notes
signed with initials in screen lower right; bears title, date and inscription 'Sampson Matthews silkscreen' on gallery label attached verso; framed with archival mat and special glass
Provenance
Pegasus Gallery of Canadian Art, Salt Spring Island, label verso; private collection, British Columbia
Biographical Information
Thoreau MacDonald ~ [1901-1989] Canadian CGP, CPE
see Thoreau MacDonald - A Catalogue of Design and Illustration, by M.Edison, University of Toronto Press, 1973; biography and another example in N.G.C., Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.202; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.88; biography in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.4, pg.1004-1008 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.4, Westbridge Pub., 2001