Artist Margaret Shelton
Title Homestead at Revelstoke #111/150
Media wood and lino block in eight colours on paper
Dated
1943
Size 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 19.7 x 26.7 cm.
Frame Size 14.5 x 17.25 x 1 in.
Sold $400
Estimate $600 - $800
Notes
signed, titled, dated '76' and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat; some minor creasing along left margin noted
Reference
MSBP #68 ed:200; exhibited CPE 27th Annual, 1943; illustrated MSBP, by P.Ainslie, pg.17 and Images of the Land, by P.Ainslie, pg.153
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Margaret Shelton ~ [1915-1984] Canadian ASA, CPE
Raised in the mining town of Rosedale, Shelton felt a kinship with both nature and working class people which greatly influenced her art. She studied under such celebrated artists as A.C. Leighton, H.G. Glyde and Walter J. Phillips, and managed to appear regularly in Alberta art exhibitions despite raising a family during the 1950s and '60s. She was a master printmaker whose ouevre of vibrant and meticulous work has enriched the Canadian art tradition.
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at margaretshelton.ca
see Margaret Shelton: Block Prints 1936-1984, by P.Ainslie [MSBP#], Glenbow Museum [no date]
biography and other examples in
Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.132;
Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.90;
Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955;
Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.43, U of C Press;
Westbridge,Vol.4, pg.507;
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed.J.Heller, pg.507, Garland Pub., 1995