Artist Frederick Grant Banting
Title Untitled - Homeward Bound
Media colour silkscreen on paper
Size 3.5 x 4.5 in. / 8.9 x 11.4 cm.
Frame Size 10.5 x 11.75 x 0.75 in.
Sold $2,000
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed in screen lower left; framed with archival mat
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Frederick Grant Banting ~ [1891-1941] Canadian
Frederick Grant Banting was born at Alliston, Ontario in 1891. He studied at local schools and at the University of Toronto. In 1915 he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Medical Corps and was promoted to staff sergeant before he returned to University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1916. He served with the 13th Field Ambulance in France where he won the Military Cross at Cambrai for devotion to duty. After his return to Canada, he returned to Toronto to join the staff of Dr. J. J. R. MacLeod’s laboratory. In 1921, he was successful in preparing insulin with Dr. Charles Best, for which he jointly received a Nobel Prize for medicine. Banting’s interest in art began in the 1920s when he shared his own art at an exhibition at the Hart House Sketching Club. This lead to Banting meeting with A. Y. Jackson which lead to a great friendship formed by love of adventure, travel and love of painting Canadian landscape.
see Banting as an Artist, by A.Y. Jackson, Ryerson Press, 1943; Banting & Jackson, An Artistic Brotherhood, by D.Fair, London Regional Art Museum, 1997; biography in Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.1, by C.MacDonald, pg.21; Robson, pg.183; Colgate, pg.252