Artist Thomas [Tom] Keith Roberts
Title Main Street
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Dated
1953 -57
Size 29.25 x 39.25 in. / 74.3 x 99.7 cm.
Frame Size 38.5 x 48.5 x 2 in.
Sold $900
Estimate $200 - $400
Notes
signed in screen lower right; signed and inscribed 'supervised by A.J. Casson' lower right; framed
Reference
illustrated on page 219 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
Thomas [Tom] Keith Roberts ~ [1909-1998] Canadian RCA
see Tom Roberts, Perspectives on a Canadian Artist, by C.Roberts, Boston Mills Press, 2000; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.349 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.324; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.7, pg.2177 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.106, Westbridge Pub., 2001; his grandfather started Roberts Gallery in Toronto in 1842