Additional Images

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature:

D.B.G. Fair, Banting & Jackson, An Artistic Brotherhood, London, Ontario, 1997, pages 10-12, figure 2, illustrated, for an ink drawing of a similar subject, titled Iceberg (1927).

Exhibited:

Exhibitions of Paintings by the late Sir Frederick Banting, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Saturday 13th February to Monday 1st March, 1943.

Note:

Frederick Banting accompanied A.Y. Jackson on the 1927 Arctic expedition which found the pair of artists travelling aboard the steamer Beothic for a six week excursion through Canada’s north. Fair writes, “the Arctic trip was a triumph for both men. Banting had spent over six weeks sketching, the longest, single period in his lifetime.” The 1997 exhibition of the work of Banting and Jackson at The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in London, Ontario included two similar Arctic ink drawings by Banting. Fair comments that “there are two striking Banting ink illustrations among the drawings. Iceberg (cat. 5) is a strong, linear, almost abstract piece…The other, Iceberg (fig. 2, cat. 6), illustrates a much better handling of the composition and has a formidable, menacing mood.”