Artist Illingworth Holey Kerr
Title 'Twenty Kerr Block Prints' Portfolios 1 and 2
Media lino block on paper
Size x in. / x cm.
Sold $2,200
Estimate $1,000 - $2,000
Notes
LOT OF TWENTY IN TWO PORTFOLIO CASES; all signed, titled and numbered along bottom; all approx [6 x 9 in.]; includes Magpies, Winter Sun, Caribou Trek, From My Window [Squirrel], Pronghorn Does [Antelope], Cougar, Chickens in the Snow [Sharptail Grouse], Mule Deer, Goldeneyes [Shore Ducks], Afternoon of a Fawn, Foxes, Mountain Sheep, Goats, Wintering Out [Horses], Mallards Going Up, Snow Geese, Sleeping Hound, Cosi Cat, Spiker [Moose], Winter [Moose] and Jack Rabbits; unframed in two portfolio cases
Provenance
from a British Columbia estate
Biographical Information
Illingworth Holey Kerr ~ [1905-1989] Canadian ASA, RCA
see Harvest of the Spirit, by M.Callahan, E.A.G., 1985 and Paint and Circumstance, by I.Kerr, Calgary, 1987; N.G.C. Vol.2 G-K, ed.C.Hill, pg.368; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.87; Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.137, Fifth House Pub., 1994; Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.3, pg.633; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.91, Westbridge Pub., 2000; 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