Roald Nasgaard, “Abstract Painting in Canada”, Vancouver/Halifax, 2007, page 262, for an artwork of similar composition to this lot
Discussing Joseph Drapell's sources for the imagery represented in his work, Nasgaard explains that the Czechoslovakian-born painter's content “was most often nature: sunrises, sunsets, expanses of water, things that owed a lot to his Georgian Bay retreat” (Drapell purchased an island on Georgian Bay in 1971, “it's expansive and uninterrupted view over the surface of Lake Superior figuring significantly in his work”).
