Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Untitled - The Homeseekers, A Prairie Camp
Media oil on canvas
Dated 1912
Size 16 x 20 in. / 40.6 x 50.8 cm.

Notes
signed with initials and dated lower right; bears artist's name and inscription verso; framed

Reference
Charles Hill, former Senior Curator of Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada, has brought to the consignor's attention that E.R. Hunter listed an unidentified painting titled 'Homeseekers' on page 48 of his book J.E.H. MacDonald: A Biography and Catalogue of his Work [Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1940]. This painting was known to Hunter merely as the title of a canvas MacDonald exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists in April 1913 and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in November 1913. This is probably the same painting that was first exhibited at The MacDowell Club in New York in March 1913, in the Exhibition of Paintings by J.W. Beatty, Wm. Brymner, W.H. Clapp, Maurice Cullen, Clarence A. Gagnon, E. Wyly Grier, Lawren Harris, Charles W. Jefferys, and J.E.H. MacDonald, catalogue number 40, when it was titled 'The Homeseekers, A Prairie Camp.' The prairie reference accords with the inscription on the stretcher of this canvas, 'Prairie Trail.' The canvas shown in New York...

Provenance
from an Ontario estate and by descent; private collection, Southern Alberta
Estimate CAD$40,000-$60,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Farm Near High Park
Media oil on paper board
Dated 1911
Size 7.75 x 10 in. / 19.7 x 25.4 cm.

Notes
signed with initials and dated lower right; bears title on gallery label verso; framed

Provenance
Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, label verso
Estimate CAD$20,000-$30,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Thornhill House
Media oil on paper board
Dated 1923
Size 5.25 x 8.5 in. / 13.3 x 21.6 cm.

Notes
signed with initials and dated lower right; signed, titled and dated verso; bears inscription 'Certified Thoreau MacDonald' verso; framed

Reference
J.E.H. MacDonald moved to the Thornhill House, Ontario, in the summer of 1913 after he left his job at Grip Ltd. in Toronto and started painting full-time. - JEH Retrospective 1965-66; In 1974, his son Thoreau MacDonald donated Thornhill House to the City of Vaughan, Ontario. The structure and grounds have been restored and are now open to the general public.

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$15,000-$25,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title High Park '08
Media graphite on paper
Dated 1908
Size 8 x 7 in. / 20.3 x 17.8 cm.

Notes
signed, titled and dated lower right; bears inscription 'J.E.H. MacDonald, High Park 1908, Certified Thoreau MacDonald' verso; framed; crease in paper along top noted

Provenance
purchased from Cane Galleries, Calgary; private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$1,500-$2,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Canadian and the Call
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1914
Size 41.5 x 28.25 x 1 in. / 105.4 x 71.8 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
titled, dated and artist's name in plate; unframed; handling marks, tears and paper loss noted

Provenance
collection of a war bride
Estimate CAD$1,000-$1,500

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Canadian and the Call
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1914
Size 41.5 x 28.25 x 1 in. / 105.4 x 71.8 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
titled, dated and artist's name in plate; unframed; handling marks, tears and paper loss noted

Reference
Publisher: Rolph and Clarke, Toronto; reproduced on front cover of The Stone Age, Canadian Lithography from Its Beginning, The National Gallery, 2000

Provenance
collection of a war bride
Estimate CAD$50-$75

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Beaver Pond, Algoma
Media lino block on paper
Dated 1920
Size 6.5 x 5 x 1 in. / 16.5 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
bears 'J.E.H. MacDonald' and certified by Thoreau MacDonald [artist's son] along bottom; framed

Reference
catalogue #113 in Images of the Land, by P. Ainslie

Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Estimate CAD$500-$600

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title A Glacial Lake, Rocky Mountains #82/100
Media relief print on paper
Dated 1925
Size 6 x 6.5 x 1 in. / 15.2 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed in pencil in margin; lot includes Rous and Mann Canadian Drawings by Members of the Group of Seven cover sheet [with title, date and number] attached verso; framed

Provenance
Brock Galleries, Penticton, label verso; private collection, British Columbia
Estimate CAD$800-$1,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Mist Fantasy
Media colour silkscreen on board
Size 29.5 x 39.5 x 1 in. / 74.9 x 100.3 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed 'Supervised by A.J. Casson' lower right; title printed along bottom; minor handling marks noted

Provenance
Proceeds to the Canadian Downs Syndrome Society
Estimate CAD$150-$200

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Beaver Pond, Algoma
Media linoblock on paper
Dated 1920
Size 6.5 x 5 x 1 in. / 16.5 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
bears 'J.E.H. MacDonald' and certified by Thoreau MacDonald [the artist's son] along bottom; framed with archival mat

Reference
illustrated Images of the Land, by P. Ainslie, cat. 113

Estimate CAD$300-$400

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Untitled - Sunset
Media etching on paper
Dated ca.  1915
Size 2.25 x 2.75 x 1 in. / 5.7 x 7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
bears artist's name and date and Thoreau MacDonald's initials along bottom

Reference
see A New Class of Art, The Artist's Print in Canadian Art, 1877-1920, by R.Tovell, pg.109 regarding the artist's etchings

Estimate CAD$250-$350

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title The Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, Canada
Media relief print on paper
Dated ca.  1920
Size 4.5 x 2.5 x 1 in. / 11.4 x 6.4 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed in plate lower left; archival mat

Estimate CAD$150-$200

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Beaver Pond, Algoma, 1920
Media relief print on paper
Size 6.75 x 5 x 1 in. / 17.1 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
certified and inscribed with artist's name by Thoreau MacDonald along bottom

Reference
Images cat. 113

Estimate CAD$400-$500

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Tom Thomson
Media graphite on paper
Dated 1915
Size 2.5 x 3 x 1 in. / 6.4 x 7.6 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed with initials, titled and dated in margin upper left; certified by Thoreau MacDonald upper right; inscription verso; archival mat

Provenance
D&E Lake Ltd. Fine Arts, Toronto, label verso
Estimate CAD$1,500-$2,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Untitled - Landscape
Media graphite on paper
Dated 1908
Size 3.5 x 5.25 x 1 in. / 8.9 x 13.3 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed with initials and dated in margin lower left; archival mat

Provenance
D&E Lake Ltd. Fine Arts, Toronto, label verso
Estimate CAD$1,000-$1,200

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Beaver Pond, Algoma
Media lino block on paper
Dated 1920
Size 6.5 x 5 x 1 in. / 16.5 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
certified by Thoreau MacDonald along bottom; possibly an estate printing

Reference
illustrated Images of the Land, by P.Ainslie, cat. 113

Estimate CAD$400-$500

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title In the Barn
Media oil on academy board
Dated 1910
Size 9 x 7 x 1 in. / 22.9 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed with initials and dated lower right; signed and titled on label verso

Reference
Canadian National Exhibition Fine Arts 1910 label verso

Estimate CAD$15,000-$20,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title York Mills, 1915
Media oil on paper board
Dated 1915
Size 6 x 8 x 1 in. / 15.2 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed with initials lower right; indistinctly titled and dated verso

Provenance
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal and Masters Gallery, Calgary, labels verso
Estimate CAD$7,000-$9,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Elms by a Stream
Media oil on paper board
Dated 1919
Size 8.5 x 10.5 x 1 in. / 21.6 x 26.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled and dated verso and inscribed

Reference
1919 was a pivotal year for the artist who created some of his finest work such as The Beaver Dam, A.G.O, and Leaves in the Brook, McMichael Collection, prior to the first exhibition of the Group of Seven in May, 1920 where he exhibited a series of sketches catalogues as 'Sketches - Lake Simcoe'; see The Tangled Garden, by P.Duval pl. 107 and 109 for examples of his Algoma paintings from this time period in the collection of the N.G.C.

Provenance
purchased Sotheby's, Toronto May 1985; private collection, Toronto
Estimate CAD$12,000-$15,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title September Snow
Media oil on paper board
Size 8.5 x 10.5 x 1 in. / 21.6 x 26.7 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed, titled and inscribed verso

Reference
the artist travelled to the Lake O'Hara area in 1924 and then every August until 1930; P.Duval in Tangled, pg.142 talks of the importance of the Rockies to the artist's work; see similar style in Snow, Lake O'Hara Camp, 1927, pg.165 and A Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies, by L.Christensen, pg.74 for Lake O'Hara with Snow in the Glenbow's collection

Provenance
purchased from Blair Laing Galleries, Toronto
Estimate CAD$12,000-$15,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title The Sea Monster
Media oil on paper board
Dated 1922
Size 8.5 x 10.25 x 1 in. / 21.6 x 26 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
titled verso

Reference
exhibited 'J.E.H. MacDonald in Nova Scotia', cat. 26, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, label verso; illustrated J.E.H. MacDonald, Lewis Smith, Edith Smith, Nova Scotia, by G.Kelly, Dalhousie A.G.1990

Provenance
corporate collection, Calgary; Collector's Gallery, Montreal, label verso
Estimate CAD$5,000-$7,000

Artist James Edward Hervey MacDonald
Title Cloudy Day, Thornhill, 1914
Media oil on paper board
Dated 1914
Size 8 x 10 x 1 in. / 20.3 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
signed with initials lower right; signed, titled and dated verso

Reference
MacDonald moved to Thornhill in 1913 due to 'developers chopping down trees everywhere'; see the N.G.C.'s painting The Shining River in The Tangled Garden, by P. Duval, pg.63 from this time period

Provenance
E.E. Poole Collection No.132 stamp verso; Alex Fraser Galleries, Vancouver, label verso
Estimate CAD$6,000-$8,000