The Group of Seven were represented strongly in the Cowley Abbott spring live auction last week with eight of the ten members of the celebrated association featured. Many of the exceptional Group artworks made their auction debut, inspiring fierce bidding and driving strong results. Here are some of the artworks by the Group that excited collectors during the spring sale.
Franklin Carmichael Old Orchard, 1940Alfred Joseph Casson The Village Store, Bradford, circa 1928
Lawren Harris Northern Lake, circa 1925
J.E.H. MacDonald Church by the Sea, N.S., 1922
Arthur Lismer Light Breaking Through, Lake Superior, 1927Frank Hans Johnston Along the Line, Algoma, 1918
Eryn Brobyn Discusses the Artworks of Marcelle Ferron in the Live Auction
Foremost Canadian Female Artists in the Spring Live Auction
Rita Letendre Sans titre, 1965Emily Carr Fir Trees, circa 1935Frances Anne Hopkins Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior, 1864Marcelle Ferron Sans titre, 1964Wanda Koop Standing Withstanding (Infrared-Still); Standing Withstanding (Infrared-Capital), 2017Marcelle Ferron Sans titre, circa 1962Lise Gervais Sans titre, 1961Alexandra Luke Exanimo (From the Heart), 1954Pegi Nicol MacLeod School Garden, circa 1933
View Rob Cowley’s Video Highlighting “Fir Trees”, circa 1935 by Emily Carr
Celebrated Female Artists Featuring Emily Carr
Cowley Abbott is delighted to share Fir Trees, circa 1935 by Emily Carr this auction season. Carr’s oil on paper sketches are amongst her most important contributions to Canadian art. No other Canadian painter explored the idea of the sketch more intensely and brilliantly than Emily Carr and this work is a prime example.
Cowley Abbott is very proud to be entrusted with a strong selection of works by Canadian and international female artists in the Spring Live Auction of Select Masterworks of Canadian and International Art on May 28th. We hope you will visit our auction preview at the Toronto gallery to enjoy these artworks.
Emily Carr, Fir Trees, circa 1935
Fern Isabel Coppedge Autumn SceneLise Gervais Le double anneau dans l’oeil
Rita Letendre Sans titreMarcelle Ferron Sans titre
Maud Lewis Two FishermenFrances Anne Hopkins Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior
Alexandra Luke Exanimo (From the Heart)
Pegi Nicol MacLeod School GardenJessie Willcox Smith Study for a Portrait
Peter Clapham Sheppard: Chronicler of the Urban Environment
Cowley Abbott is delighted to be entrusted with a rare and masterful work by Peter Clapham Sheppard, The Bridge Builders, Construction, Bloor Street Viaduct, 1915.
P.C. Sheppard was one of the first among Toronto’s early twentieth century modernists to record the urban experience during a period of dynamic growth and change. Such massive building projects proclaimed this city’s unstoppable industrial and technological age. Bridge Builders is an emblem of the aspirational spirit of a confident nation that will soon emerge from the crucible of war proud, independent, and with a new global identity. Sheppard is captivated by the movement, light, and activity of ports, railyards, markets, parades and the circus. The artist extols the humanity of the workers who laboured there, mostly new immigrants, whose toil wove together the rich multicultural fabric we enjoy in Toronto today.
Cowley Abbott is very proud to be entrusted with this painting, which makes its auction debut in our Spring Live Auction of Select Masterworks of Canadian and International Art on May 28th.
Peter Clapham Sheppard The Bridge Builders, Construction, Bloor Street Viaduct, 1915
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