River Landscape, Port Hope by Bernice Fenwick Martin
Bernice Fenwick Martin
River Landscape, Port Hope
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed and dated 1940 lower left; a forest landscape on the reverse, with the artist’s estate stamp and inscribed indistinctly (”Spring on the...”)
10.5 x 13.75 ins ( 26.7 x 34.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,150.00
Sale date: November 23rd 2017
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, Ontario
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Bernice Fenwick Martin
(1902 - 1999)
Born in Shelbourne, Ontario, Martin studied at the Ontario College of Art under noted Canadian artists J.W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael. After the death of Beatty in 1941, she found friendship in Peter Clapham Sheppard whom she studied and worked with until his death in 1965. Working in oil, watercolour and woodcut, Martin focuses on real scenes, Toronto harbour scenes, still life, and Northern landscapes with particular concentration on the Muskoka, Haliburton, and Algonquin Park regions of Ontario. She had works showcased at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1945-1947 and solo exhibitions of her work in Toronto galleries throughout her career. “I look back on my life and my painting hours were the happiest. I’d spend long hours and forget time…my time was always measured by the passage of light.”
(With details from Canadian Heritage Art Gallery, “A Celebration of the Art and Life of Bernice Fenwick Martin”, Kleinburg, 2010, page xi)
