Artist Calgary Herald School
Title The Typesetter and Additional Mask
Media synthetic stone sculpture
Dated ca. 1912
Size 56 x 19.5 x 9 in. / 142.2 x 49.5 x 22.9 cm.
Estimate $2,000 - $4,000

Notes
unsigned; titled along bottom; set into concrete which has been attached to a steel backing and copper flashing; flashing measures [74 x 39 x 13 in.]; surface dirt and wear consistent with age of outdoor architectural element; crack in head; paint drip on additional gargoyle.
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Reference
designed by Mark Villars Marshall [1879-1912] and produced by Royal Doulton at their Lambeth Studio in 1912 for the Southam Building [built 1913] which later became known as the 'Herald Building' after its most prominent tenant, the Calgary Herald newspaper; formerly on the corner of 7th Ave and 1st Street SW, the building was demolished in 1972 due to structural problems that could not be amended.

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Provenance
corporate collection, Calgary