Artist Katie von der Ohe
Title Weeping Bees
Media colour silkscreen on paper
Dated
2007
Size 4 x 5 in. / 10.2 x 12.7 cm.
Frame Size 9.25 x 9.75 x 0.75 in.
Sold $450
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed, titled and dated along bottom; framed with archival mat
Provenance
LaFlamme Galleries, Calgary, stamp verso; private collection, Calgary / Europe
Biographical Information
Katie von der Ohe ~ [b.1937] Canadian ASA, RCA
Ohe is one of the founders of Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre and Sculpture Park in Springbank, Alberta. KOAC is a contemporary art centre founded by Katie with Harry Kiyooka where visitors can view an impressive collection of outdoor sculptures while enjoying the sanctuary of the natural environment.
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at koartscentre.org
see Katie Ohe, by Richard Gordon, published by Alberta College of Art, 1991;
Katie Ohe: Ethos, Now and Then, published by Herringer Kiss Gallery, 2015
included in
The Shell Canada Collection, by Basil Shammas, pg. 39, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
Artists of Alberta, by Suzanne Devonshire Baker, pg. 36, University of Alberta Press, 1980;
Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 95, 1986;
Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy Five Years, by Kathy E. Zimon, plate 59, University of Calgary Press, 2000
biography and other examples in
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 3, pg. 60, Westbridge Publishing, 2001
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 5, pg. 1428
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]