Shades of Evening by William Edwin Atkinson
W.E. Atkinson
Shades of Evening
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1923 lower left; titled and dated on the reverse of the frame
20 x 16 ins ( 50.8 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $1,560.00
Sale date: March 1st 2022
Private Collection, Ontario
“Art and Identity in The Region of Durham”, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 30 April-25 October 2009
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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
