Helen Coy, “FitzGerald as a Printmaker”, Winnipeg, 1982, unpaginated, reproduced, no. 85
This work was once owned by Irene Heywood Hemsworth, a former student at the Winnipeg School of Art and a close friend of Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald.
Helen Coy notes in 1982’s “FitzGerald as a Printmaker” that Hemsworth “...holds three of these prints, inscribed ‘2nd last,’ ‘3rd last’ and ‘final 1940.’ This was the year FitzGerald had applied unsuccessfully for a Guggenheim Fellowship. His frustrations at the refusal do not seem to have changed his approach to the annual greeting, although the disappointment, together with a growing feeling of time sliding rapidly by, would impel him in the early 1940s to release a new power in his watercolours and other media.”
