CSPWC G7 OSA RCA
1890 - 1945
Canadian
Cloche Hills
oil on board, circa 1930
signed and on verso titled on the gallery label and inscribed "Without any doubt, this is a genuine Franklin Carmichael sketch. It was painted in the Cloche Hills about 1930" by A.J. Casson
10 x 12 in, 25.4 x 30.5 cm
Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000 CAD
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Canadian Art, Joyner Fine Art, May 20, 1987, lot 93
Private Collection, Vancouver
Franklin Carmichael, a founding member of the Group of Seven, spent much of his life as a commercial designer and teacher. In the 1920s, Carmichael began sketching in the La Cloche Mountains, north of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. This area of the Canadian Shield, dominated by quartzite hills, became one of Carmichael’s most important sketching sites.
Cloche Hills amply demonstrates the artist’s command of this dramatic landscape. The composition moves from the bare rocks of the foreground to the richly treed hills in the centre and beyond to the rocky hills in the distance. Carmichael has paid careful attention to the shifts in colour within the forested landscape but has only roughly delineated the trees themselves through his brushwork. Above the landscape is an active sky animated by windswept clouds. The La Cloche region was where Carmichael felt particularly at home as an artist. In Cloche Hills, he has succeeded in bringing the viewer into this vibrant and visually exciting natural world.
Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000 CAD
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