PROVENANCE
A gift from the Artist to Harry B. and Lucile Housser, circa 1930s
By descent within the family of the Artist

LITERATURE
Exhibition of Canadian Paintings by the Group of Seven and Etchings by Robert F. Logan, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1928, the related 1928 canvas, titled as Cobalt, Ont., catalogue #80
Fourth Annual Exhibition of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, 1929, the related 1928 canvas, titled as Cobalt, Ontario, catalogue #110
Exhibition of Seascapes and Water-Fronts by Contemporary Artists and an Exhibition by the Group of Seven, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1931, the related 1931 canvas Cobalt, catalogue #126
Seventh Annual Exhibition of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, 1932, the related 1931 canvas, catalogue #183

EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Toronto, Forty-eighth Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, November 18, 1926 – January 2, 1927, catalogue #98
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Annual Exhibition of Canadian Art, January 11 – February 28, 1927, catalogue #156
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canadian Paintings, August 27 – September 10, 1927, possibly exhibited as Lac Beauvert, Jasper Park by Yvonne McKaque [sic], catalogue #165, label on verso
Art Gallery of Toronto, Sixty-fourth Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists, Canadian Paintings: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin, Oshawa, March 1936, verso exhibited as Mullens [sic], catalogue #149
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment, September 10, 2021 – January 16, 2022, traveling in 2022 – 2023 to the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Vancouver Art Gallery; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, titled as Sketch for “Cobalt” and dated circa 1931 [sic]
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Cobalt: A Mining Town and the Canadian Imagination, November 18, 2023 – April 21, 2024, the circa 1926 canvas and the related 1931 canvas

Literature continued

Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary Canadian Artists, International Art Center of Roerich Museum, 1932, the related 1931 canvas, catalogue #43

Sixty-fourth Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists, Canadian Paintings: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin, Oshawa, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1936, verso titled as Mullens [sic], catalogue #149

Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Painting: Arranged on behalf of the Carnegie Corporation of New York for circulation in the Southern Dominions of the British Empire or Southern Dominions Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, 1936, the related 1931 canvas, catalogue #62

The Development of Painting in Canada, 1665 – 1945, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1945, the related 1931 canvas, catalogue #166

Sarah Milroy, editor, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2021, the circa 1926 canvas, titled as Sketch for “Cobalt” and dated circa 1931 [sic], reproduced page 20 and listed page 303; the related 1931 canvas reproduced page 20 and listed page 310; and the related work Marguerite Pilot of Deep River (Girl with Mulleins), dated circa 1936 – 1940, reproduced page 90 and listed page 303

Catharine Mastin, Cobalt: A Mining Town and the Canadian Imagination, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2024, the circa 1926 canvas reproduced page 96 and listed pages 46, 95 and 176; the related 1928 canvas reproduced page 47 and listed pages 46, 47, 176 and 177; and the related 1931 canvas reproduced pages 4 and 97, listed pages 82, 95, 98, 101, 179 and 180

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