Artist James Wilson Morrice
Title The Ferry, Quebec
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Dated
ca. 1941
Size 29.25 x 39.5 in. / 74.3 x 100.3 cm.
Frame Size 33 x 43 x 1.5 in.
Sold $400
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed in screen lower left; signed and inscribed 'supervised by A.J. Casson' lower left; framed; some chips noted on frame
Reference
illustrated on page 57 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
James Wilson Morrice ~ [1865-1924] Canadian CAC, RCA
see James Wilson Morrice by D.Buchanan, Ryerson Press, Toronto 1936; J.W.Morrice, by W.Johnston, M.M.F.A., 1965; Morrice, by K.Pepper, Clarke, Irwin and Co., 1966; James Wilson Morrice, A Great Canadian Artist Rediscovered, by B.Laing, McClelland and Stewart, 1984; James Wilson Morrice 1865-1924 by N.Cloutier, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1985; Morrice: A Gift to the Nation, The G. Blair Laing Collection, by C.Hill, N.G.C, 1992; Morrice: Painter of Light and Shadow, by W.Larsen, Dundurn Press, 2008; included in Dict. des Peintres, Sculpteurs et Graveurs, by E.Benezit, Tome 7, pg.554; MacDonald, Vol. 4, pg.1287-1296; Westbridge,Vol.3, pg.42