April in Foster Woods - Spring Eastern Townships Que.

Oil on panel

12 x 14 in
30.5 x 35.6 cm

Demande d'information

This painting is presently on view at our Toronto gallery

$25,000

Inscriptions

signed, ‘S. M. ROBERTSON’ (lower right); inscribed, ‘SPRING EASTERN TOWNSHIPS QUE. / SARAH M. ROBERTSON / 1470 Fort St / Montreal / [illegible] / [possibly] 1945 ’ (verso, upper left quadrant); inscribed in red pencil, ‘YMCA ARMY EXHIBITION’ (verso, centre); signed, inscribed and titled, ‘SARAH M. ROBERTSON / 1470 FORT ST. MONTREAL, / APRIL IN FOSTER WOODS. / $55.00 SOLD’ (verso, artist’s label); inscribed, ‘NO 22’ (verso, upper right, on the frame)

Provenance

Private collection, Westmount, Quebec

Expositions

YMCA Army Exhibition (not dated)

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Memorial Exhibition: Sarah Robertson, 1891-1948 , November 3-29, 1951, no.22; Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, February 16 - March 5, 1952; Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, April 1952, no. 7; London, Ontario, The Elsie Perrin Williams Memorial Library and Art Museum, no. 4; circulated throughout Canada until April 2, 1953.

April in Foster Woods - Spring Eastern Townships Que. is a spring landscape of awakening energy—painted with a sensitivity to colour and texture. The vitality of the brushwork animates the forest; the white trunks of birch trees twist upward while the ground is laid down in warm, earthen reds and ochres.

Sarah Robertson painted April in Foster Woods - Spring Eastern Townships Que. while staying at Nora Collyer’s parents’ country home, at Foster, Quebec in the Eastern Townships. It is not just a study of a place, it is a testimony of companionship and the shared artistic purpose synonymous with the legacy of the women of the Beaver Hall Group.

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