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Artist Molly Lamb Bobak
Title Cosmos
Media watercolour on paper
Size 17 x 23.25 in. / 43.2 x 59.1 cm.
Frame Size 24 x 29.5 x 1 in.
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500

Notes
signed lower left; bears title on backing; framed with archival mat

Provenance
private collection, Edmonton


Biographical Information
Molly Lamb Bobak ~ [1920-2014] Canadian RCA
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at bobakart.com

see
Wild Flowers of Canada: Impressions and Sketches of a Field Artist by Molly Lamb Bobak, published by Pagurian Press Limited, 1978;
Double Duty, Sketches and Diaries of Molly Lamb Bobak, by C.Gossage, Canadian War Museum, 1992;
Molly Lamb Bobak - a Retrospective, by C.Richmond, MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1993;
The Canadian Art Library, Molly Lamb Bobak, Life & Work, by Michelle Gewurtz, Art Canada Institute, 2019;
Anything but a Still Life: The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak by Nathan M. Greenfield, published by Goose Lane Editions, 2021

biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.102;
A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.36;
MacDonald, Vol.1, pg.55
Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.36;

exhibition list in
M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.35;
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed. J.Heller, pg.76, Garland Pub., 1995

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Biographical Information
Molly Lamb Bobak ~ [1920-2014] Canadian RCA
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at bobakart.com

see
Wild Flowers of Canada: Impressions and Sketches of a Field Artist by Molly Lamb Bobak, published by Pagurian Press Limited, 1978;
Double Duty, Sketches and Diaries of Molly Lamb Bobak, by C.Gossage, Canadian War Museum, 1992;
Molly Lamb Bobak - a Retrospective, by C.Richmond, MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1993;
The Canadian Art Library, Molly Lamb Bobak, Life & Work, by Michelle Gewurtz, Art Canada Institute, 2019;
Anything but a Still Life: The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak by Nathan M. Greenfield, published by Goose Lane Editions, 2021

biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.102;
A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.36;
MacDonald, Vol.1, pg.55
Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.36;

exhibition list in
M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.35;
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed. J.Heller, pg.76, Garland Pub., 1995

Historical Results for this Artist

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