Woodland by William Edwin Atkinson
W.E. Atkinson
Woodland
oil on board
signed and dated 1896 lower right
7.25 x 11 ins ( 18.4 x 27.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $960.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
Waddington’s, auction, June 30, 2004, Lot 39
Private Collection, Ontario
“Art and Identity in The Region of Durham”, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, April 30 - October 25, 2009
A.K. Prakash, “Impressionism in Canada, A Journey of Rediscovery”, Stuttgart, 2015, page 666
“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.”
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William Edwin Atkinson
(1862 - 1926)
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he studied at the Central Ontario School of Art in 1881; The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins where he roomed with Donald McNab and G. A. Reid, 1883-4; the Académie Julian and the Académie Delance, 1889-90. He made a brief contact with Gaugin at Pont Aven in 1890. E. F. B. Johnston found simple beauty and dignity in his pastoral scenes. He won a prize at the Salon d’Apollon in the Louvre, 1891, for landscape. He was a founder-member of the Canadian Art Club in Toronto, 1907, and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (A.R.C.A.). He is represented in the National Gallery of Canada by two landscapes.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977
