Artist Keith Thomson
Title Elevator #1
Media colour silkscreen on paper
Size 8 x 11.5 in. / 20.3 x 29.2 cm.
Frame Size 16 x 20 x 1 in.
Estimate $100 - $150
Notes
bears artist's name and title on label verso; framed with archival mat
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Keith Thomson ~ [b.1934] Canadian ASA
Thomson grew up in a farming community near Craven, Saskatchewan, in the Qu'Appelle Valley. He graduated in Commercial Art from Alberta College of Art and Design and worked as a commercial artist for several years. He was an instructor at the Alberta College of Art 25 years, teaching life drawing, silkscreen printing and watercolour painting.
biography and another examples in
Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.102;
Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.55, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.258, Fifth House Pub., 1994
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]