ARCA G7 OSA
1881 - 1969
Canadian
Bridge Over Lynn
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled, dated 1935 and 1936 on the exhibition labels and inscribed with the Varley inventory #167
32 x 40 in, 81.3 x 101.6 cm
Estimate: $800,000 - $1,200,000 CAD
Preview at: Heffel Vancouver
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by H.S. Southam
A wedding gift from the above to his daughter, Margaret Brinckman, London and then Ottawa, 1937
Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Canadian Art, Joyner Fine Art, May 15, 1990, lot 32
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Vancouver
LITERATURE
F.H. Varley: Paintings, 1915 – 1954, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1954, listed page 28
Megan Bice and Sharyn Udall, The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925 – 1945, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1994, reproduced page 151 and listed page 174
Catharine M. Mastin et al., The Group of Seven in Western Canada, Glenbow Museum, 2002, reproduced page 70 and listed page 200
EXHIBITED
Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, London, Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Artists of the British Empire Overseas, May 8 – 29, 1937, catalogue #19
Art Gallery of Toronto, F.H. Varley: Paintings, 1915 – 1954, October – November 1954, traveling in 1954 – 1955 to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and a Western Tour, catalogue #23
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Paintings in Ottawa Collections, April 10 – May 6, 1959
Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor, F.H. Varley Retrospective 1964, April 12 – May 17, 1964, catalogue #29
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925 – 1945, January 30 – April 17, 1994, traveling in 1994 – 1995 to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina, catalogue #65
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Group of Seven in Western Canada, July 13 – October 14, 2002, traveling in 2002 – 2004 to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, catalogue #86
Vancouver Art Gallery, extended loan, accession #E.L.92.2.3
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Estimate: $800,000 - $1,200,000 CAD
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