Artist Alfred Joseph Casson
Title White Pine
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Dated
1947 --53 ca.
Size 29.25 x 39 in. / 74.3 x 99.1 cm.
Frame Size 33 x 43 x 1.25 in.
Sold $2,000
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed in screen lower right; framed; some handling marks and scratches noted; handling marks and stains on frame noted
Reference
illustrated on the cover and pages 140-141, 210 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, 2016
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Alfred Joseph Casson ~ [1898-1992] Canadian CSPWC, CGP, OSA, RCA
see
A.J. Casson, by P.Duval, Roberts Gallery, 1975;
A.J. Casson, by J.Murray, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1978;
A.J. Casson: His Life and Works / A Tribute, by P.Duval, Cerebrus, 1980;
A.J. Casson, My Favourite Watercolours 1919 to 1957, by P.Duval, Cerebrus, 1982;
A.J. Casson: Early Works, by I.Thom, McMichael Collection, 1984;
A.J. Casson: An Artist's Life by Christopher E. Jackson, published by McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1998;
A.J. Casson: Behind the Scenes, C. Jackson, Varley Art Gallery, 2006
biography and other example in
N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.180;
A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.63;
Dict. Of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.1, pg.122;
Westbridge, Vol.1, pg. 60
exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg. 65
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]