Artist Thomas [Tom] Keith Roberts
Title Village in Winter
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Dated
1947 -53
Size 29.5 x 39.5 in. / 74.9 x 100.3 cm.
Sold $170
Estimate $200 - $400
Notes
signed in screen lower left; paint loss in lower left margins noted; pinholes, surface dirt, tears and paint loss noted throughout
Reference
printed by Sampson-Matthews Limited; illustrated on page 154 in Art for War and Peace: How a Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself, by Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman, published by Read Leaf, 2015
Biographical Information
Thomas [Tom] Keith Roberts ~ [1909-1998] Canadian RCA
see Tom Roberts, Perspectives on a Canadian Artist, by C.Roberts, Boston Mills Press, 2000; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.349 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.324; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.7, pg.2177 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.106, Westbridge Pub., 2001; his grandfather started Roberts Gallery in Toronto in 1842