Artist Bertram Charles [B.C.] Binning
Title Ships in Classical Calm
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Dated
ca. 1948
Size 29.5 x 39.5 in. / 74.9 x 100.3 cm.
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed and dated '48' in screen lower right; signed 'Supervised by A.J. Casson' lower right; printed title along bottom; unframed; tear in bottom left corner, minor scratches, surface dirt and handling marks noted throughout
Reference
printed by Sampson-Matthews Limited; illustrated on page 121 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
Biographical Information
Bertram Charles [B.C.] Binning ~ [1909-1976] Canadian BCSA, CGP, CSGA, RCA
see B.C. Binning, a Retrospective, by A.Balkind, U of BC, 1973; B.C. Binning: A Classic Spirit, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V., 1985; B.C. Binning, by Abraham J. Rogatnick, Ian M. Thom, Adele Weder, Douglas and McIntyre, 2006; biography and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.94; A.G.O., by the A.G.O. pg.31; Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.1, by C.MacDonald, pg.49, the artist was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.100