Artworks for Sale
The Boat Builder's Slip, Chatham , 1957 (circa)
Oil on panel
13 7/8 x 18 1/8 in
35.2 x 46 cm
35.2 x 46 cm
This painting is presently on view at our Toronto gallery
$10,000
Inscriptions
signed, 'Lyman' (lower right); titled, 'The Boat Builder's Slip / (Chatham) / cale à yachts’ (verso)Provenance
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Galerie Martal, Montreal
The estate of the late Guido Molinari
Acquired from the above by Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, 2009
Acquired from the above by the present private collection, Chester, Nova Scotia, 2009
Exhibitions
Montreal, Dominion Gallery, John Lyman Exhibition, October - November 15, 1963, no. 45.
Literature
Louise Dompierre, John Lyman 1886-1967 (Kingston, Ontario: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, 1986), 208.
Lyman has painted a composition of a narrow stream winding through the tidal creek and sandbanks, probably at Ridgevale Beach in West Chatham. Skiffs are beached at low tide and one larger boat is anchored in the upper right. Intended to create an atmosphere of calm and serenity, and with a concentration of colour and form, instead of story telling, Lyman’s painting shows his lifelong attraction to the paintings of J. W. Morrice and Matisse, both artists who he met in 1909. Theirs was a devotion to a pure art of colour, line, and form, an art devoid of all anecdotal details or 'non-artistic' concepts.
John Lyman played an important role in the development of modern art in Canada, as an artist, a theorist, a professor and as the founder in 1939 of the Contemporary Arts Society.
John Lyman played an important role in the development of modern art in Canada, as an artist, a theorist, a professor and as the founder in 1939 of the Contemporary Arts Society.
