Artworks for Sale
Anon, "Many Attend Show by Maurice Cullen: Montreal Painter’s Art Reveals Beauties of Laurentians in Varying Moods," The Gazette (Montreal), January 16, 1933, 6.
Rockies from the Bow River, 1930 (circa)
61.2 x 81.2 cm
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery Cullen Inventory No. AK0421
Inscriptions
signed, ‘M Cullen’ (lower right); inscribed, ‘13010’ (verso, on the canvas)Provenance
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal
Private collection, Ottawa
Exhibitions
Montreal, Watson Art Galleries, 11th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Pastels by Maurice Cullen RCA, 14 - 24 January, 1933.
Literature
Anon, "Many Attend Show by Maurice Cullen: Montreal Painter’s Art Reveals Beauties of Laurentians in Varying Moods," The Gazette (Montreal), January 16, 1933, 6.
Rockies from the Bow River is a rare and extraordinary opportunity to acquire an important composition of Western Canada by Maurice Cullen, the first Canadian artist to introduce impressionism to Canadian art.
Painted in 1930 during his only sketching trip west, Cullen captures the meandering Bow River set against the towering majesty of the Rocky Mountains beneath a dynamic sky. This work exemplifies his mastery in portraying the interplay of light and colour, a sensitivity he traditionally reserved for the Caché, Devil’s, and North rivers of the Mont-Tremblant region of Quebec.
While the precise location along the Bow is uncertain, it is plausible that Cullen sketched this while snowshoeing below the area of the Banff Springs Hotel.
Rockies from the Bow River is a significant work in the history of Canadian art, with particular relevance for collectors of Canadian impressionism with a connection to the beauty and light of the Canadian West.
