Artist Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka
Title Vernal Equinox #29/40
Media colour silkscreen on paper
Size 20.75 x 38.25 in. / 52.7 x 97.2 cm.
Frame Size 31 x 48.5 x 1.5 in.
Sold $2,100
Estimate $2,000 - $4,000
Notes
signed, titled and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat; crack in frame along side noted
Provenance
private collection, Alberta
Biographical Information
Harry Mitsuo Kiyooka ~ [1928-2022] Canadian ASA, RCA
Kiyooka was one of the founders of Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre and Sculpture Park in Springbank, Alberta. KOAC is a contemporary art centre founded by Harry with Katie Ohe where visitors can view an impressive collection of outdoor sculptures while enjoying the sanctuary of the natural environment. For extensive biographical information and examples of the artist's work see koartscentre.org
see
Harry Kiyooka Paintings and Drawings 1953-1978 by Ron Moppett, published by Alberta College of Art, 1978;
A Parallax: Roy Kiyooka - Harry Kiyooka published by Herringer Kiss Gallery, 2014;
included in
The Shell Canada Collection, by Basil Shammas, pg. 27, published by Shell Oil, 1977;
Artists of Alberta, by Suzanne Devonshire Baker, pg. 90, published by University of Alberta Press, 1980;
Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by Bente Roed Cochran, pg. 91-93, 1989;
University of Calgary Millenium Portfolio, 1999, as a faculty member
biography in
MacDonald, Vol. 3, pg. 649
Westbridge, Vol. 2, pg. 96
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]