Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
1891 - 1948
BHG CGP
Sarah Robertson was born in 1948 to a family that was part of Montreal's English establishment. She studied from 1909 to 1924 at the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. In 1923 she won a scholarship to study from the Women's Art Society.

Robertson was a member of the Beaver Hall Group that formed in 1920, and continued to show with her fellow women members long after the group broke up - in 1934 with Prudence Heward and Isabel McLaughlin at Toronto's Hart House and in 1940 with Prudence Heward, Anne Savage and Ethel Seath at the Art Gallery of Toronto. She went on sketching trips with A.Y. Jackson (who had also been a member), Prudence Heward, Ethel Seath and Nora Collyer to the Laurentians, the Lower St. Lawrence and to Nova Scotia. In about 1929, she travelled to Bermuda with Collyer.

Robertson painted portraits, florals and still lifes, but her primary interest was in landscape, based on idyllic childhood experiences at her family's country house, and her sketching trips into the countryside. As she matured, her work exhibited Modernist tendencies, and became freer and bolder. Also, her style showed influences from the Group of Seven, and she was included in their 1928 exhibition. Her work was praised by Group members Jackson and Arthur Lismer.

She had her first show at the annual Royal Canadian Academy in 1922, and she participated in the Art Association of Montreal spring exhibitions from 1935 to 1942. In 1924 she was included in the 1924 Wembley exhibition in England. In 1933 she was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and participated in their group shows. Robertson also exhibited in the United States, in group shows at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1944, the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro and the Riverside Museum in New York.

Illness shortened Robertson's life, and she died in Montreal in 1948 at 57. In 1951 a memorial exhibition was held of her work at the National Gallery of Canada .
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l'Hôtel-Dieu by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $31,625
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
l'Hôtel-Dieu
8 7/8 x 12 1/4 in, 22.5 x 31.1 cm
oil on panel
Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000 CDN
Sold for: $31,625 CDN (premium included)
May 2007 - 1st Session on Saturday, May 26, 2007
Feeding Time by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $16,380
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
Feeding Time
8 3/4 x 12 in, 22.2 x 30.5 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CDN
Sold for: $16,380 CDN (premium included)
November 2011 - 6th Session on Saturday, November 26, 2011
Isle of Orleans, Farm Buildings by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $14,160
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
Isle of Orleans, Farm Buildings
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in, 21.6 x 26.7 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $9,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for: $14,160 CDN (premium included)
November 2016 - 10th Session on Saturday, November 26, 2016
From the Porch by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $11,875
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
From the Porch
16 x 18 in, 40.6 x 45.7 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for: $11,875 CDN (premium included)
Contemporaries of the Group of Seven on Friday, May 01, 2020
The Barn in Winter by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $11,700
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
The Barn in Winter
8 1/4 x 10 1/2 in, 21 x 26.7 cm
oil on panel
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CDN
Sold for: $11,700 CDN (premium included)
November 2012 - 6th Session on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Jessie and Louis Robertson at Cap-à-l'Aigle by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $8,775
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
Jessie and Louis Robertson at Cap-à-l'Aigle
5 1/4 x 7 1/8 in, 13.3 x 18.1 cm
oil on panel
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 CDN
Sold for: $8,775 CDN (premium included)
November 2010 - 5th Session on Saturday, November 27, 2010
Woman with Doves in a Canadian Landscape by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $6,900
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
Woman with Doves in a Canadian Landscape
20 1/8 x 24 1/8 in, 51.1 x 61.3 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 CDN
Sold for: $6,900 CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Spring 2003 on Thursday, May 15, 2003
Seashore View by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $6,325
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
Seashore View
9 x 12 1/2 in, 22.9 x 31.7 cm
oil on panel
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000 CDN
Sold for: $6,325 CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Fall 2001 on Thursday, November 08, 2001
View of Murray Bay, QC, from Cap-à-l'Aigle by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $5,850
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
View of Murray Bay, QC, from Cap-à-l'Aigle
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in, 21.6 x 26.7 cm
oil on panel
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CDN
Sold for: $5,850 CDN (premium included)
November 2010 - 7th Session on Saturday, November 27, 2010
Summer Landscape by Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson sold for $5,625
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
Summer Landscape
7 3/4 x 10 in, 19.7 x 25.4 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 CDN
Sold for: $5,625 CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art on Saturday, June 26, 2021