Artist William [Bill] H. Webb
Title Wiley's Crossing - Winter [Near Heath, Alta.]
Media acrylic on canvas
Dated
1986
Size 60 x 48 in. / 152.4 x 121.9 cm.
Frame Size 61.25 x 49.25 x 1.75 in.
Sold $3,500
Estimate $3,000 - $4,000
Notes
signed, titled and dated verso; framed
Provenance
corporate collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
William [Bill] H. Webb ~ [1940-2020] Canadian
Webb emigrated from England to Canada in 1968 and became a teacher, a principal and a school superintendent in Edmonton, Alberta. His first solo exhibition was at the West End Gallery in 1986. He retired in 1990 to become a full-time artist.
For more biographical information, examples of work, and a video tribute of Bill Webb's life see West End Gallery; see also a 2014 article about the artist's work at Avenue Magazine; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.97, Westbridge Pub., 2003; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website at
Artists in Canada