PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Alex Fraser Galleries, Vancouver
Private Collection, Ontario
Private Collection, Toronto
Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 25, 2010, lot 200
Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Dennis Reid, Canadian Jungle: The Later Work of Arthur Lismer, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985, reproduced page 85

EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Jungle: The Later Work of Arthur Lismer, September 27 - November 24, 1985, traveling in 1986 to Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Edmonton Art Gallery, catalogue #55

In 1951, Arthur Lismer made his first sketching trip to Vancouver Island, exploring Long Beach as well as Galiano and Pender Islands. The wild West Coast made such an impression that he returned there for 16 subsequent summers, painting both shore and forest. When he immersed himself in the deep woods, he most often painted close-ups of trees and the forest floor, as with this vigorous portrait of an old growth tree. Characteristic of his work there are the use of bold brush-strokes and incised lines, which increase the sensation of riotous growth. Having met Emily Carr when she traveled to Toronto in 1927, Lismer also saw her in a 1940 lecture trip to Victoria. While his West Coast work was not obviously influenced by her, they shared a commonality in their expression of the immense life force present there.

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