Artist Roland Gissing
Title The Canadian Rockies - Near Lake Louise
Media oil on wood board
Size 13.5 x 16.25 in. / 34.3 x 41.3 cm.
Frame Size 23 x 26 x 1.75 in.
Sold $600
Estimate $900 - $1,200
Notes
unsigned; bears artist's name and title on gallery label verso; framed
Provenance
Garfield Galleries, Toronto, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Roland Gissing ~ [1895-1967] Canadian ASA
see Roland Gissing, The People's Painter, by M.Foran, UofC Press, 1988 for many examples of the artist's work; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.278 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.12, Westbridge Pub., 2000; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.149 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.145; included in The Alberta Society of Artists: Sixty Years, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1992; Colgate, pg.184; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; see Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 55, pg. 369, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009; 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
see artist's website www.rolandgissing.com