Artist Clifford Foard Robinson
Title The Sailor and his Lady
Media acrylic on paper
Dated
1945
Size 21 x 27 in. / 53.3 x 68.6 cm.
Frame Size 30.25 x 36.25 x 1.25 in.
Sold $375
Estimate $400 - $500
Notes
signed with initials and inscribed 'Vancouver' lower right; bears title and date on gallery label verso; framed; some scratches on frame noted
Provenance
High Street Gallery, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Edmonton
Biographical Information
Clifford Foard Robinson ~ [1917-1992] Canadian ASA, CSGA, FCA
see Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.119; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.93; The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect, by A.Oko, pg.76, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1981; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.27, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; see Printmaking in B.C. 1883-1983, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V.; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.108, Westbridge Pub., 2001; Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.109; the proper spelling according to the family is Foard and not Feard which possibly resulted from the artists hand written biographical information sent to the National Gallery