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Garden Bench by Audrey Garwood

Artwork by Audrey Garwood, Garden Bench

Audrey Garwood
Garden Bench

oil on canvas
signed, titled and dated 1988 on the reverse; inventory number 24 inscribed on the stretcher
36 x 48 ins ( 91.4 x 121.9 cms )

Price Realized $500.00
Sale date: April 21st 2020

Provenance:
Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental Service, Toronto
Varley Art Gallery, auction, Unionville, May 11, 2011, Lot 33
Private Collection, Toronto
A decorated member of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy, Audrey Garwood possessed an intuitive understanding of the vast grandeur of the national landscape. Though her depictions of the Canadian wilderness take their place within an established tradition of landscape painting in Canada, her works also reveal a more contemporary sensitivity to the subtle radiant energy present in all things. Showcasing the artist’s ability to paint with an analytic understanding of the luminous qualities of natural structures, “Garden Bench” appears lit from within. Garwood’s lush composition situates the viewer at the base of a hill covered in abundant foliage, elevating her quotidian subject.

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Audrey Garwood
(1927 - 2004) OSA, RCA

HighlightsWatch Artist

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Garwood graduated from the Ontario College of Art, Audrey Garwood received a scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at the Rijks Academie in Amsterdam, after which she attended La Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France.

A member and exhibitor with the Ontario Society of Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy, and the Women’s Caucus of the Arts, Garwood received numerous awards, including the Sterling Trust Award for Canadian painters, the Canadian Society of Printmakers Print Award, and the San Francisco Art Festival’s Purchase award. With a career spanning over fifty years, Garwood was the subject of over twenty-five solo shows. In 1956, she was the youngest individual (and first woman) to win the prized Forester Award of the Ontario Society of Artists.

Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979