Lot 22
FREDERICK GRANT BANTING
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist.
By descent to the present owner, Ontario.
Literature:
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country, The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, Toronto, 1958, page 75.
Exhibited:
Exhibition of Paintings by the late Sir Frederick Banting, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Saturday 13th February to Monday 1st March, 1943.
Note:
Jackson, in his autobiography, writes that Banting was an occasional sketching companion in Quebec: “When I told him I was planning to spend some part of the winter in St. Jean Port Joli he asked if he might come along with me.” This was Banting’s first experience of painting out of doors in winter time. Jackson continues: “It was March, but there was no sign of spring, and we were working in very exposed country. The winds swept in from the Gulf and there was no shelter from them. Banting persisted, though it was an ordeal for him. I found him one day crouched behind a rail fence, the snow drifting into his sketch box and his hands so cold he could hardly work. He turned to me and said, ‘And I thought this was a sissy game.’”