Artist Illingworth Holey Kerr
Title Illingworth Kerr - 10 Block Prints Folio Two #A.P.
Media lino block on paper
Size 9.75 x 6.25 in. / 24.8 x 15.9 cm.
Sold $1,000
Estimate $900 - $1,200
Notes
LOT OF TEN; each are signed, titled and numbered along bottom; titles include: Mountain Sheep, Goats, Wintering Out [Horses], Mallards Going Up, Snow Geese, Sleeping Hound, Cosi Cat, Spiker [Moose], Winter [Moose] and Jack Rabbits; various sizes; in brown portfolio case [11.5 x 15.5 inches]; unframed; all prints have water damage in one corner of margins
Reference
one of two folios, each of 10 prints in an edition of 100; these blocks were made for Christmas cards, starting in 1947 and later printed by John Snow, Calgary
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Illingworth Holey Kerr ~ [1905-1989] Canadian ASA, RCA
see
Harvest of the Spirit, by M.Callahan, E.A.G., 1985;
Paint and Circumstance, by I.Kerr, Calgary, 1987
biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol.2 G-K, ed.C.Hill, pg.368;
Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.87;
Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.137, Fifth House Pub., 1994;
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.3, pg.633;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.91, Westbridge Pub., 2000
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]