George Franklin Arbuckle
(1909 - 2001) RCA
Previously Sold Works
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Brewery Bay, Orillia, Ontario
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and inscribed “from S. Leacock’s House” on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,062.00
Sale date: September 17th 2019
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Lake Louise
sampson matthews silkscreen
24 x 30 ins ( 61 x 76.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $1,020.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Green Barn, Hawkesville, Ontario
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1979 on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $900.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $960.00
Sale date: September 21st 2016
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Cloudswept
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed lower left; titled on the reverse
12 x 15.25 ins ( 30.5 x 38.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $944.00
Sale date: April 14th 2020
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Kingston, Ontario
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled, and dated “Nov 12, ‘79” on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $767.00
Sale date: September 12th 2018
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
De Salvos Mill
oil on canvas laid down on masonite
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated “Nov. 15, 1985” on the reverse
11.75 x 15.75 ins ( 29.8 x 40 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $780.00
Sale date: April 27th 2021
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Mugnone Valley
oil on masonite
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $690.00
Sale date: March 14th 2018
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Back Yard at Enterprise, Ontario
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated “Oct 7 86” on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $649.00
Sale date: March 20th 2019
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Mountain Farm on Way to Monte Senario
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated “July 1971” and inscribed “Italy” on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $660.00
Sale date: February 28th 2023
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies
silkscreen
titled on the reverse; stamped “Serigraphic Process Display, Made in Canada by Display Division, Department of Public Relations, Canadian Pacific, Montreal, If soiled, clean with damp cloth” on the reverse
24 x 30 ins ( 61 x 76.2 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: December 15th 2020
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Down by the Sea
sampson matthews silkscreen
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $360.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies
silkscreen
stamped on the reverse “Serigraphic Process Display, Made in Canada by Display Division, Department of Public Relations, Canadian Pacific, Montreal, If soiled, clean with damp cloth”
24 x 30 ins ( 61 x 76.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $325.00
Sale date: February 20th 2019
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
The Edge of the Barrens, Ungava
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
20 x 32.25 ins ( 50.8 x 81.9 cms )
GEORGE FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE
De Salvos Mill
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated “November 15, 1985” on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: October 27th 2020
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Franklin Arbuckle Biography
(1909 - 2001) RCA
Arbuckle studied at the Ontario College of Art under J.W. Beatty and J.E.H. MacDonald. He attended summer classes at Franz Johnston's Georgian Bay art school. During the war, he turned his hand to commercial work and became an extremely successful illustrator. He worked for Bomac Engravers for several years at Ottawa and Montreal but he returned to free lance work in 1944. His special knowledge of historical subjects contributed greatly to his stature as an illustrator. Much of this knowledge was obtained from a friend and teacher, C. W. Jeffreys. His fine art painting encompassed both realism and impressionism.
His MacLean’s cover paintings of people, reveal his sensitivity to facial expressions striking a happy medium between caricature and realism. One of his particularly successful illustrations for MacLean’s magazine covered two pages used for Joseph Schull’s “William Lawrence and his wonderful windjammer.” This large illustration of a ship was reproduced in Canadian Art magazine in connection with the 7th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art; other works by him also appeared in that issue. Two of his larger projects have been written about in Weekend magazine. He has won the Jessie Dow award twice and is regarded as one of the more prominent illustrators in Canada.
His love of outdoor painting was rarely satisfied due to his numerous commitments of other types of art work. His more important commissions include: a mural 32 ft., 10 inches by 17 ft. for the City Hall at Hamilton, Ontario; mural for the Sawinigan Water and Power Company, Quebec; the design for tapestries 30 ft. by 19 ft. each, for the Royal Bank of Canada Building on King Street, Toronto. The tapestries were woven at Aubusson, France. Barbara Moon’s article in MacLean’s magazine in 1959 covered many aspects of his life and that of his artist wife Frances-Anne Johnston, daughter of founding Group of Seven member Frank Johnston.
Franklin Arbuckle is represented in the International Business Machines Collection of Contemporary Art, the Seagram Collection of Paintings and the R.C.A. Diploma Collection in the National Gallery of Canada. He is also represented in other leading galleries in North America and Europe. He taught at the Ontario College of Art and continued his career as a free lance artist. He was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators. He became an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1936, and a full member in 1945. He served as president of the RCA from 1960 to 1964.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977
