Lot 126
BARKER FAIRLEY, R.C.A.
Additional Images
Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Barker Fairley and Gary Michael Dault, Barker Fairley Portraits, Methuen, Toronto, 1981, page 28 and page 29, reproduced in colour.
Note:
Fairley writes: “Will Clawson was a professor of English who specialized in the medieval period and knew his stuff. He was a quiet New Englander, as I like to think can be seen from my portrait of him. If anyone says it reminds him of Grant Wood I should want to clap him on the back.”