Artist Thomas Mower Martin
Title Untitled - Mountain Landscape
Media watercolour on paper
Dated
ca. 1900
Size 12.5 x 19 in. / 31.8 x 48.3 cm.
Frame Size 19.75 x 26.25 x 2 in.
Sold $600
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed lower right; bears date on Ann Lavender conservation report attached verso; framed
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Thomas Mower Martin ~ [1838-1934] Canadian OSA, RCA
Mower Martin was a founding member of the Ontario Society of Artists [OSA] and a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts [RCA].
see The Father of Canadian Art, Thomas Mower Martin, by T.Graeme, T and T Enertprises, Sidney, 2009;
biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.208;
A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.299;
R.O.M. Canadian Watercolours, by M.Allodi; biographies in
E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.217; MacDonald, Vol.4, pg.1113
Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.16, Westbridge Pub.;
Canadian Landscape Painters, by A.Robson, pg.42, Ryerson Press, 1932
Canadian Art: Its Origin and Development, by W.Colgate, pg.24
exhibition lists in
R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.271;
M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.255
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]