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Lot #2326

Artist: Kenneth Samuelson ~ [1936-2021] Canadian ASA

#2326 ~ Samuelson - Indian Summer  #11/37
Lot #2326

Artist: Kenneth Samuelson ~ [1936-2021] Canadian ASA

Reference: biography and another examples in
Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.100;
Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.48, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977

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]

Lot #2327, Lot #2328

Artist: Joseph M. Sanchez ~ [b.1948] Canadian

#2327 ~ Sanchez - Visiting Elders
#2328 ~ Sanchez - Untitled - Transformation
Lot #2327, Lot #2328

Artist: Joseph M. Sanchez ~ [b.1948] Canadian

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at bearclawgallery.com

Lot #2329, Lot #2330

Artist: Allen Sapp ~ [1929-2015] Canadian RCA

#2329 ~ Sapp - Untitled - One More Ride Before Home
#2330 ~ Sapp - Untitled - Practice at Sunset
Lot #2329, Lot #2330

Artist: Allen Sapp ~ [1929-2015] Canadian RCA

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.allensapp.com

see
Cree Life - the Art of Allen Sapp, published by J. Warner, Douglas Ltd., 1977;
Two Spirits Soar - The Art of Allen Sapp, The Inspiration of Allan Gonor, by W.P. Kinsella, published by Stoddart, 1990;
Kiskayetum - Allen Sapp: - Retrospective, by Bob Boyer, published by MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1994;
The Song Within My Heart, David Bouchard, published by Raincoast Books, 2002;
Nokum is My Teacher, by David Bouchard, Red Deer Press, 2006

biography and other examples in
Time for Dialogue, by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, pg. 19, published by Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992;
Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by Marketa Newman, pg. 223, published by Fifth House, 1994;
Westbridge, Vol. 4, pg. 4

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]

Lot #2331

Artist: Leonard Kenneth Schmidt ~ [20th century] Canadian

#2331 ~ Schmidt - Against a Black Window
Lot #2331

Artist: Leonard Kenneth Schmidt ~ [20th century] Canadian

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Lot #2332

Artist: Alberta School ~ [20th century] Canadian

#2332 ~ School - West of Nanton
Lot #2332

Artist: Alberta School ~ [20th century] Canadian

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Lot #2333

Artist: British School ~ British

#2333 ~ School - Untitled - British Officer and Mount
Lot #2333

Artist: British School ~ British

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Lot #2334, Lot #2335, Lot #2336

Artist: Canadian School ~ Canadian

#2334 ~ School - Untitled - Curvilinear
#2335 ~ School - Untitled - Bird Connection
#2336 ~ School - Analytical Landscape
Lot #2334, Lot #2335, Lot #2336

Artist: Canadian School ~ Canadian

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Lot #2337

Artist: European School ~ European

#2337 ~ School - Untitled - Field Scene
Lot #2337

Artist: European School ~ European

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Lot #2338

Artist: Unknown School ~

#2338 ~ School - Untitled - Bratislava Castle
Lot #2338

Artist: Unknown School ~

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Lot #2339

Artist: Graeme Shaw ~ [b.1951] Canadian

#2339 ~ Shaw - When There is Nothing To Do
Lot #2339

Artist: Graeme Shaw ~ [b.1951] Canadian

Reference: Calgary-born Shaw benefitted at an early age from the instruction of his mother who was an artist. He has worked as an illustrator for the federal government and as a teacher to Dene children along Great Slave Lake. Despite his love of the North, he resettled on Vancouver Island to work as an artist full time.

for more biographical information and examples of work see gallery websites at whiterockgallery.com and webstergalleries.com

Lot #2340

Artist: Margaret Shelton ~ [1915-1984] Canadian ASA, CPE

#2340 ~ Shelton - Untitled - Mountain Tracks
Lot #2340

Artist: Margaret Shelton ~ [1915-1984] Canadian ASA, CPE

Reference: Raised in the mining town of Rosedale, Shelton felt a kinship with both nature and working class people which greatly influenced her art. She studied under such celebrated artists as A.C. Leighton, H.G. Glyde and Walter J. Phillips, and managed to appear regularly in Alberta art exhibitions despite raising a family during the 1950s and '60s. She was a master printmaker whose ouevre of vibrant and meticulous work has enriched the Canadian art tradition.

for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at margaretshelton.ca

see Margaret Shelton: Block Prints 1936-1984, by P.Ainslie [MSBP#], Glenbow Museum [no date]

biography and other examples in
Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.132;
Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.90;
Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955;
Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.43, U of C Press;
Westbridge,Vol.4, pg.507;
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed.J.Heller, pg.507, Garland Pub., 1995

Lot #2341

Artist: Peter Shostak ~ [b.1943] Canadian

#2341 ~ Shostak - We Don
Lot #2341

Artist: Peter Shostak ~ [b.1943] Canadian

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at petershostak.com

see
When Nights Were Long, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1982;
Saturday Came but Once a Week, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1984;
For Our Children, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1991

biography and other examples in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 23, Westbridge Pub., 2003

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]

Lot #2342, Lot #2343, Lot #2344

Artist: Herbert Johannes Joseph Siebner ~ [1925-2003] Canadian BCSA, CGP, RCA

#2342 ~ Siebner - Cycladic Islands
#2343 ~ Siebner - SS Stella Solaris
#2344 ~ Siebner - Mykonos  #A.P.
Lot #2342, Lot #2343, Lot #2344

Artist: Herbert Johannes Joseph Siebner ~ [1925-2003] Canadian BCSA, CGP, RCA

Reference: see
Herbert Siebner: A Monograph, by R.Skelton, Maltwood Art Museum, 1979;
One Hundred Years of B.C. Art 1858-1958, by V.A.G, 1958

biography and other examples in
Art in Victoria 1960/1986, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V.;
Four Decades, by P.Duval, pg.159, Clarke Irwin, 1972;
The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect, by A.Oko, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1981

exhibition list in Nova Scotia Society of Arts 1922-1972 , by M.O'Neil, pg.64, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1997

Lot #2345

Artist: Deborah Lougheed Sinclair ~ [b.1953] Canadian ASA

#2345 ~ Sinclair - High Water
Lot #2345

Artist: Deborah Lougheed Sinclair ~ [b.1953] Canadian ASA

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at deborahlougheedsinclair.com

biography and other examples in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.27, Westbridge Pub., 2003;

Lot #2346, Lot #2347

Artist: Robert William Sinclair ~ [b.1939] Canadian CSPWC, RCA

#2346 ~ Sinclair - Lift Centre and Scoop
#2347 ~ Sinclair - March
Lot #2346, Lot #2347

Artist: Robert William Sinclair ~ [b.1939] Canadian CSPWC, RCA

Reference: see artist's website at www.sinclairart.com; see Mountains and the Sky, by L.Render, pg.206 for other examples of the artist's work in the collection of the Glenbow Museum; Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.233, Fifth House Pub., 1994; Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.30

Lot #2348

Artist: Jerome/Josiah Howard Smith ~ [ca.1861-1941] American/Canadian

#2348 ~ Smith - Untitled - Stopping for a Drink
Lot #2348

Artist: Jerome/Josiah Howard Smith ~ [ca.1861-1941] American/Canadian

Reference: sometimes listed as Jerome or sometimes Josiah Howard Smith; listed in Artists in Canada: a union list of artists' files, by S.Hasbury, pg.664; also mentioned in Artists on Horseback, by P.Hogarth, pg.213, Watson-Guptill, 1972, as illustrator for Leslie's Weekly magazine for the Pine Ridge Sioux Outbreak of 1891; Artists of the American West, pg.217 mentions that he painted with Charlie Russell in 1889

Lot #2349, Lot #2350, Lot #2351, Lot #2352

Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow ~ [1911-2004] Canadian ASA, CSGA, RCA

#2349 ~ Snow - Seal  #6/23
#2350 ~ Snow - Chios  #30/50
#2351 ~ Snow - Three Birds  #14/50
#2352 ~ Snow - Lines by Jean Alexander  #11/50
Lot #2349, Lot #2350, Lot #2351, Lot #2352

Artist: John Harold Thomas Snow ~ [1911-2004] Canadian ASA, CSGA, RCA

Reference: Snow was born in Vancouver in 1911, lived in England during WW1 and with the family returned to Olds, Alberta in 1919. He had successful career for over 43 years with the Royal Bank of Canada and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. After the war he and Maxwell Bates began a fruitful friendship that invigorated the art scene in Calgary and supported the modernist period of art in Alberta. As self-taught printers they began making lithographs with two old machine presses they rescued from an alleyway and this medium came to define Snow's work, though he also worked in watercolour, oil, mixed media, concrete sculpture, textiles, and intaglio relief. In addition to his talent in the visual arts, Snow was an accomplished musician who helped create the New Works Calgary Society and he also organized the Calgary Film Society in the late 1940s. He was inducted as a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1996. His residence and studio is now registered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places; see John Snow House

For more detailed biographical information see Government of Alberta and Feckless Collection; see a comprehensive 2002 article written in Galleries West; see also John Snow: Four Decades, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1990; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.101 and pg.65; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.137 and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.425; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.42, pl.45a, UofC Press; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.35, Westbridge Pub., 2003 for biography; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.383 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.360

Lot #2353

Artist: Lyle Sopel ~ [b.1952] Canadian

#2353 ~ Sopel - Bear Climbing
Lot #2353

Artist: Lyle Sopel ~ [b.1952] Canadian

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.sopel.com;

represented by Canada House Gallery, Banff and Kube Gallery, Fort Langley;

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

Lot #2354

Artist: Derrick Sorochan ~ [20th century] Canadian

#2354 ~ Sorochan - Union
Lot #2354

Artist: Derrick Sorochan ~ [20th century] Canadian

Reference: 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

Lot #2355

Artist: John Stanford ~ [b. 1947] American

#2355 ~ Stanford - Untitled - Cowboys at Dusk
Lot #2355

Artist: John Stanford ~ [b. 1947] American

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Lot #2356

Artist: Owen P. Staples ~ [1866-1949] Canadian CPE, CSPWC, OSA

#2356 ~ Staples - Self Portrait
Lot #2356

Artist: Owen P. Staples ~ [1866-1949] Canadian CPE, CSPWC, OSA

Reference: see Owen Staples, Painter of Canada's Past, by R.Staples, Hogarth Productions, 1994; E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.297 for biography; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.386 and The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect, by A.Oko, pg.77, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1981; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.42, Westbridge Pub., 2003

Lot #2357

Artist: Jacqueline Stehelin ~ [20th century] Canadian

#2357 ~ Stehelin - Untitled - Lemon, Jar and Pear
Lot #2357

Artist: Jacqueline Stehelin ~ [20th century] Canadian

Reference: 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

Lot #2358

Artist: Erin Stelmaschuk Biegel ~ [21st century] Canadian

#2358 ~ Stelmaschuk Biegel - After the Buffalo Jumped
Lot #2358

Artist: Erin Stelmaschuk Biegel ~ [21st century] Canadian

Reference: 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

Lot #2359

Artist: Linda Stewart ~ [b.1950] Canadian

#2359 ~ Stewart - Your Friend  #17/50
Lot #2359

Artist: Linda Stewart ~ [b.1950] Canadian

Reference: see artist's website at www.lindastewart.ca; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.45, Westbridge Pub., 2003

Lot #2360

Artist: Kenneth Sturdy ~ [1920-2018] Canadian

#2360 ~ Sturdy - Untitled - Seated Nude
Lot #2360

Artist: Kenneth Sturdy ~ [1920-2018] Canadian

Reference: exhibition list in M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg. 365; 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

Lot #2361

Artist: Eileen Raucher Sutton ~ [20th century] Canadian

#2361 ~ Sutton - Heliconia
Lot #2361

Artist: Eileen Raucher Sutton ~ [20th century] Canadian

Reference: 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

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