signed lower right; titled on gallery label on the reverse; inscribed “760928B” on the reverse (indicating the artist’s date of September 28, 1976)
12 × 16 in (30.5 × 40.6 cm)
Auction Estimate:$2,500 - $3,500
Sale date:November 23, 2017
Price Realized
$2,990
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Merton Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature
Doris McCarthy quoted in Brian Brennan, “Doris McCarthy: May 7 - 21, 2005 Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont, Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB.”, Galleries West [Online], April 30, 2005.
Likely depicting Heart Mountain in the Hamlet of Exshaw, Alberta, McCarthy renders the mountainous landscape with an ethereal lightness employed with a cool yet soothing palette. At the base of Heart Mountain, the artist includes the cement factory of the hamlet. The principle industry and heart of the community, limestone from the nearby mountains continues to be quarried and processed at the plant.
Committed to depicting the Canadian landscape when abstraction and non-representational painting was in favour within the dialogue of Canadian art, the artist held a deep connection to her time out West in Alberta. Commenting on her travels and sketching trips, McCarthy explains, “I am increasingly familiar with the forms of particular mountains — whether it’s Mount Assiniboine, or Three Sisters or whatever — because they have an individuality with which I have become familiar, which I love.”
Doris Jean McCarthy - Exshaw Near Banff | Cowley Abbott
