Bernice Fenwick Martin, River Landscape, Port Hope, oil on canvas, 1940

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River Landscape, Port Hope, 1940

oil on canvas

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 × 13.75 in (26.7 × 34.9 cm)

Auction Estimate:$1,200 - $1,500

Sale date:November 23, 2017

Price Realized

$1,150

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Estate of the artist Private Collection, Ontario

The landscapes depicted recto and verso were painted in the region close to the O.C.A. Summer School where Bernice Fenwick Martin studied under J.W. Beatty. Beatty often hosted fellow artists as guest instructors at the school, including A.Y. Jackson and Frederick Banting.