Artist Muriel Yvonne McKague Housser
Title Evening, Nipigon River
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Dated
ca. 1943
Size 29.5 x 39.5 in. / 74.9 x 100.3 cm.
Frame Size 38.5 x 48.5 x 1.5 in.
Sold $1,300
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed in screen lower right; signed and inscribed 'supervised by A.J. Casson' lower right; framed; some minor handling marks on frame noted
Reference
illustrated on page 37 in Art for War and Peace: How a Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself, by Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman, published by Read Leaf, 2015
Provenance
Pegasus Gallery of Canadian Art, Salt Spring Island, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Muriel Yvonne McKague Housser ~ [1898-1996] Canadian CGP, FCA, OSA, RCA
see The Art of Yvonne McKague Housser, by J.Murray, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1995; 4 Women Who Painted in the 1930s and 1940s, by A.Boutilier, Carleton University Art Gallery, 1999; examples in A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.196 and N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, by C.Hill, pg.149; By a Lady, Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women, by M.Tippett, pg.107; biographies in Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.61 and North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed. J.Heller, pg.263, Garland Pub., 1995; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.195