BCSFA
1876 - 1956
Canadian
Sawmill, Texada Island
watercolour on paper
signed and on verso titled and inscribed "Historic" and "Loaned by W.P. Weston - 1419 Dogwood Av. Vancouver" on a label
11 x 15 1/2 in, 27.9 x 39.4 cm
Estimate: $800 - $1,200 CAD
Sold for: $625
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PROVENANCE
Collection of W.P. Weston, Vancouver
By descent to the present Private Collection, British Columbia
LITERATURE
Maria Tippett and Douglas Cole, From Desolation to Splendour: Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape, 1977, page 82
Like many who would come to shape British Columbia's art scene in the early 20th century, Harry Hood came to Vancouver in either 1900 or 1904 by way of Scotland. In 1926 he acquired The Art Emporium, which under him became a hub for the artistic avant-garde in the province. Beside Emily Carr, Hood, along with Statira Frame and Mary Riter Hamilton are credited with being among the first artists in Vancouver to import modernist European aesthetics through their work. This painting comes from the personal collection of Hood's contemporary, W.P. Weston, and depicts a sawmill on Texada Island, representing the primary commercial industry of early coastal British Columbia.
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