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Inventory # PCRE-00015-0024

CSPWC G7 OSA RCA
1890 - 1945
Canadian

Misty Morning, Cloche Mountains
oil on board
signed and dated 1936 and on verso titled and dated on the gallery labels and inscribed variously
10 x 11 7/8 in, 25.4 x 30.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
The Art Emporium, Vancouver
Kaspar Gallery, Toronto
Fine Canadian Art, Joyner Fine Art, May 16, 1989, lot 74
Private Collection, Toronto


Artists in the Group of Seven each had their special painting places, and for Franklin Carmichael, that place was the La Cloche Mountains. His unique bond with this singular and beautiful landscape endured from the early 1920s until the time of his passing, in 1945. This region had expanses of water and broad valleys, and its white quartzite rock formations were geologically special. In order to immerse himself in this stunning landscape, Carmichael acquired five acres of land on Cranberry Lake and built a cabin there in 1935.

In Misty Morning, Cloche Mountains, Carmichael took a position on the near shore, painting the mist drifting down over the mountaintops from the bottom of a formation of upward-reaching striations of cloud. His fine eye for composition, honed over many years of plein air sketching and working as a top designer for the commercial art firm Sampson-Matthews Ltd., picked out the rhythm in the undulating hills, the patterns in the mountains shaped by snowmelt, and the focal points in the layers of landscape. Carmichael was a sensitive man, given to reading extensively about American Transcendentalism, theosophy and cosmology earlier in his life. In the La Cloche area, in solitary and contemplative landscapes such as this, Carmichael found the experience of spiritual communion that he sought.

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