signed lower right; titled to gallery label on the reverse
30 × 36 in (76.2 × 91.4 cm)
Auction Estimate:$3,000 - $5,000
Sale date:November 19, 2019
Price Realized
$4,012
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Private Collection, Montreal
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibited
Important Canadian Art, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, January 27, 2012
Lawren Harris & Canadian Masters: Historic Sale Celebrating Canada’s 150 Years, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, Toronto, April 1, 2017
Literature
Albert H. Robson, Canadian Landscape Painters, Toronto, 1932, page 108
Frederick Hutchison had a sympathetic eye for the landscape and environs of the St. Lawrence River and its villages. This is illustrated in “Winter Scene, Hudson Heights, Quebec”, with the artist’s primary interest being the play of warm light and cool shadow on the house and the surrounding snow. There is a subtle and poetic arrangement to this painting, with emphasis on atmosphere and the charm of colour. For many years Hutchison depicted the beautiful region of the Lower St. Lawrence and captured the essence of the French-Canadian countryside, as did other fine painters such as Morrice, Cullen, Gagnon and Jackson. As Albert H. Robson observed, “Hutchison’s landscapes have a fine diffusion of light. He is a true Impressionist with an exquisite sense of colour.”