Lot 125
FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, O.S.A., A.R.C.A.
Provenance:
Laing Galleries, Toronto.
Private Collection, Toronto.
Literature:
Joan Murray, The Last Buffalo, The Story of Frederick Arthur Verner, Toronto, 1984, page 23 for a similar scene entitled Two Indians in a Canoe (collection of National Gallery of Canada).
Note:
Murray writes that Verner first studied Indians from life near Peterborough, Ontario: “Indians gliding over the lake in a canoe eventually became a favourite subject.”
The Kawartha lakes are a band of lakes in south-central Ontario. They include the lakes north of Lake Ontario and east of Lake Simcoe and continue east into Peterborough County.