Artist Jack Lee Cowin
Title Somewhere Over the Rainbow [Western Canada Trout Series] #42/50 [Unique]
Media hand coloured etching on paper
Dated
1980
Size 17.5 x 23.75 in. / 44.4 x 60.3 cm.
Frame Size 30.25 x 35.5 x 1.5 in.
Sold $400
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat
Provenance
Petro Canada, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Jack Lee Cowin ~ [1947-2014] Canadian
Cowin was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He entered Indiana University with an eye on a career as a medical illustrator. Later transferring to fine arts and specializing in printmaking, he completed his BFA in 1969 and received his MFA from the University of Illinois in 1971. He then accepted a position in the Fine Arts Dept. at the University of Regina, teaching for 36 years, retiring in 2007.
for more biographical information and examples of his work see gallery website at www.slategallery.ca/jack-cowin;
see Country Pleasures, The Angling Art of Jack Cowin, by A.Oko, Fifth House, 1984 and
biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.222; Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.55, Fifth House Pub., 1994;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.75, Westbridge Pub., 1999
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website