Lot 38
EDWIN HEADLEY HOLGATE, R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Galerie L’Art français, Montreal
Literature:
Dennis Reid, Edwin Holgate, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1976, page 22.
Note:
A central figure in the establishment of a Canadian tradition in painting after the First World War, Edwin Holgate is remembered for his close association with the Group of Seven from 1929, and his earlier involvement with the foundation of the Beaver Hall Group.
Fall, Laurentians is an oil study for the larger canvas entitled Three Tamaracks (now in private hands). Holgate frequently revisited the Quebec landscape throughout his mature years as an artist, particularly Morin Heights north-west of Montreal, where he lived from 1946 to 1973. The majority of pictures he produced at this time focus on the shoulders of the seasons, when conditional changes seem to occur over a short period of time. The warm colours of the season in Fall, Laurentians stand in contrast to the cool colours that feature in other pictures of the same year. As a group, Holgate’s Laurentian pictures capture his fascination with the ethnology of rural life in French Canada and his own personal relationship to the landscape of Morin Heights.