Artist Jori [Marjorie] Smith
Title Untitled - Woman in Rocking Chair
Media oil on paper board
Dated
1998
Size 10.5 x 8.5 in. / 26.7 x 21.6 cm.
Frame Size 16.75 x 14.5 x 1 in.
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed and dated lower right; signed and dated verso; framed; minor handling marks on frame noted
Provenance
private collection, British Columbia
Biographical Information
Jori [Marjorie] Smith ~ [1907-2005] Canadian
biography and another example in N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.284; Canadian Painting in the '30's, by C.Hill, pg.11; By a Lady, Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women, by M.Tippett, pg.107; North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed. J.Heller, pg.516, Garland Pub., 1995; Jori Smith received the Order of Canada in 2003 for her 'groundbreaking role in the development of Canadian painting. She was a key figure in the 1930s in initiating Canada's modernist art movement, notably as a co-founder and the only woman member of the Eastern Group of Painters.'