Sky Blue by John Dunbar McLean
John D. McLean
Sky Blue
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed and titled on the reverse; unframed
36 x 48 ins ( 91.4 x 121.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $300.00
Sale date: December 15th 2020
Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
The 1990 press release related to the Art Dialogue Gallery exhibition of John McLean’s new works in oil, described the paintings in the series (where “Sky Blue” debuted) with:
“The landscape is re-designed to fit the content of contemporary aesthetics. Like a multi-image projection, the new paintings by John Dunbar McLean are a window with several views. The windows and the views are a clever composition of forms, lines, colours recalling large vistas of land, sky, lakes, woods and other natural sights. Sometimes the composition incorporates details in a superimposed or transposed effect but without ever being realistic. The final result is an abstract cloisonné relating the sensations of nature”
-Luciana Benzi (Gallery Owner/Director, Art Dialogue Gallery)
“The landscape is re-designed to fit the content of contemporary aesthetics. Like a multi-image projection, the new paintings by John Dunbar McLean are a window with several views. The windows and the views are a clever composition of forms, lines, colours recalling large vistas of land, sky, lakes, woods and other natural sights. Sometimes the composition incorporates details in a superimposed or transposed effect but without ever being realistic. The final result is an abstract cloisonné relating the sensations of nature”
-Luciana Benzi (Gallery Owner/Director, Art Dialogue Gallery)
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John Dunbar McLean
(1920 - 2008)
John Dunbar McLean was born in British Columbia. He lived and worked in Toronto from the 1940s, studying first with Franz Johnston and later with other teachers, including Pat Fairhead, and at the Central Technical School. His paintings have a distinctive quality of texture and technique and they have been collected by corporations and private collectors in Canada and abroad.
Source:
Art Dialogue Gallery Press Release (October, 2009 - Luciana Benzi)
