Artist Keith Thomson
Title Aspen Walk
Media watercolour on paper
Size 29.5 x 39.25 in. / 74.9 x 99.7 cm.
Frame Size 40.75 x 50.75 x 1.75 in.
Sold $5,500
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed lower right; bears title on backing; framed with special glass
Provenance
corporate 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;
see Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.55, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
biography in
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]