CSPWC OC OSA RCA
1910 - 2010
Canadian
Antarctica from Above
oil on canvas
signed and on verso titled and titled and dated 1991 on the gallery label and inscribed "910420"
42 x 60 in, 106.7 x 152.4 cm
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000 CAD
Sold for: $193,250
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PROVENANCE
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Important Corporate Collection
LITERATURE
Celebrating Life: The Art of Doris McCarthy, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1999, reproduced page 157 and cover
Nancy Campbell, Doris McCarthy: Roughing It in the Bush, Doris McCarthy Gallery, 2010, reproduced page 64, listed page 91
EXHIBITED
Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, co-presented with the University of Toronto Art Centre, Doris McCarthy: Roughing It in the Bush, June 19 - July 24, 2010
Throughout her 42 year-long career as an art teacher, Doris McCarthy traveled extensively within Canada and beyond. In the years following her retirement in 1972, McCarthy embarked on annual trips to the Arctic, which she would continue until she was 94. Her polar explorations sparked her enduring passion for remote landscapes. In Antarctica from Above, a group of sculptural landforms and icebergs are silhouetted against a wash of soft sunlight and a fluid palette of violet, orange and glacial blues. McCarthy’s aerial composition deftly captures the sublime and atmospheric qualities of the Antarctic and its surrounding waters, and is a striking example of her later work.
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