Illingworth Holey Kerr
(1905 - 1989) RCA
Previously Sold Works
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Installing the Electric Hoist at Iqaluit Mine; The Mine
two watercolours
- “Installing the Electric Hoist at Iqaluit Mine” signed with monogram lower right; signed, titled and dated 1939 on the reverse; 15 x 20 ins. (sheet); unframed;
- “Untitled (The Mine)” signed and dated 1939 to the mat lower right; 4.5 x 6.5 ins (sight); framed
15 x 20 in ( 38.1 x 50.8 cm ) ( largest artwork )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $1,800.00
Sale date: July 23rd 2024
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Prairie Landscape
watercolour
signed lower right with monogram
20 x 28 ins ( 50.8 x 71.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: October 25th 2022
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Folio 1
set of 10 block prints
includes: “Magpies, Winter Sun”, “Caribou Trek”, “From My Window (squirrel)”, “Pronghorn Does (antelope)”, “Cougar”, “Chickens in the Snow”, “Mule Deer”, “Goldeneyes”, “Afternoon of a Fawn” and “Foxes”; each signed, titled and numbered 50/100 in the lower margin; 10.25 x 14.25 inches (each sheet) all unframed; original portfolio cover included
10.25 x 14.25 ins ( 26 x 36.2 cms ) ( each sheet )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $1,200.00
Sale date: August 23rd 2022
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Redheads, Prairie Slough
watercolour
signed with monogram lower left; signed, titled and dated 1980 on the reverse of the framing
11.5 x 17.5 ins ( 29.2 x 44.5 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $780.00
Sale date: June 1st 2021
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Untitled (Lake View)
watercolour
signed with monogram lower center
14.5 x 21.5 in ( 36.8 x 54.6 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $720.00
Sale date: July 23rd 2024
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Western Marsh
watercolour
signed and titled on the mat; unframed
11.25 x 15.25 ins ( 28.6 x 38.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: August 11th 2020
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Mountain Landscape
felt marker drawing
signed with monogram lower right
10.25 x 13.25 ins ( 26 x 33.7 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $266.00
Sale date: February 20th 2019
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Hill Road at Marten’s
oil on canvas board
signed with monogram lower right; signed, titled and dated 1984 on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $1,298.00
Sale date: April 14th 2020
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Qu’Appelle Valley, East of Lumsden, Sask.
oil on board
signed lower right with monogram; signed, titled and dated 1972 on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
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Illingworth Kerr Biography
(1905 - 1989) RCA
Illingworth "Buck" Kerr was born in Lumsden, Saskatchewan in 1905. He studied at the Central Technical School in Toronto in 1924. From 1924 to 1927 Kerr studied under Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, and J.W. Beatty at the Ontario College of Arts. Kerr also studied at the Westminster School of Art in London in 1936, as well as with Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1954. In 1955 and 1957 he attended Emma Lake Workshops. Kerr traveled the Georgian Bay area, Ontario in 1927, and England and France from 1960 to 1961. He taught at the Vancouver School of Art from 1945 to 1946 and was head of the Alberta College of Art from 1947 to 1967. He was a great influence and friend to many artists of that era. As well, from 1952 to 1953, he was president of the Alberta Society of Artists. Kerr was also a member of the Canadian Authors Association; he wrote many short stories and illustrated many publications including his autobiography, Gay Dogs and Dark Horses, in 1946. He received a Canada Council Award in 1960. He painted portraits, the life of Indigenous peoples, urban views, wildlife, and the Prairie and Ontario landscape. He used the media of oil, acrylic, watercolour, charcoal, and ink, as well as woodblock, linoblock, monotype and silkscreen prints.
