Lot 32
FRANK HANS JOHNSTON, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Guelph
Literature:
Roger Burford Mason, A Grand Eye for Glory: A Life of Franz Johnston, Dundurn, Toronto, 1998, unpaginated and page 63.
Note:
In 1927, Johnston received a commission to paint a mural and was able to travel to northern Quebec and Ontario where he studied the effect of various qualities of snow and light. He had already earned a reputation in the study of the beauty of light effects. Mason writes, “Johnston’s skill in rendering the quality of light on snow was thought to be unsurpassed.“ Further trips to this region and the area around Lake Nipigon throughout the 1930s helped him develop “his very special facility for painting the effect of light and shadow on snow, a theme which informs some of his most popular and enduring works.”
According to the present owner this painting was purchased from The Fine Art Galleries, T. Eaton Company Limited, Toronto.