Artist Walter Drohan
Title Untitled - Landscape Pot
Media glazed ceramic
Dated
1971
Size 4.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 in. / 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm.
Sold $210
Estimate $50 - $75
Notes
signed and dated on bottom
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Walter Drohan ~ [1932-2007] Canadian ASA, RCA
Studied at the Provincial Institue of Technology and Art (now Alberta University of the Arts) and studied under Luke Lindoe. After graduating, he worked at Ceramic Arts (established by Lindoe), started teaching at the Alberta College of Art and eventually served as college Dean.
see Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.78, for biography and Artists of Alberta, by S.Baker, pg.2, for another example; Spaces and Places - Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.98; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.12, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.96; exhibited at Wallace Galleries, Calgary