Waddington’s, auction, June 30, 2004, Lot 39
Private Collection, Ontario
Exhibited
“Art and Identity in The Region of Durham”, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, April 30 - October 25, 2009
Literature
A.K. Prakash, “Impressionism in Canada, A Journey of Rediscovery”, Stuttgart, 2015, page 666
“Woodland” is noted in A.K. Prakash’s entry related to William Edwin Atkinson in “Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery”:
“Atkinson immediately introduced brighter colours into his paintings, along with patches of colour in an Impressionistic style. When the American artist, Robert Henri arrived in the town some weeks later, he remarked that ‘everything is keyed up to the very highest pitch’ in Atkinson’s work; ‘the reigning struggle for light has taken him and he has not been at all sparing in his conversion to it’. ‘Woodland’ (1896, location unknown), his beautiful sketch of forest birches painted with touches of pink and orange amid a radiant golden light, three years after his return home, is proof of this fervour.”
