Taormina Reviewed by Ronald York Wilson
York Wilson
Taormina Reviewed
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; titled and dated 1974 on the gallery label
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $2,400.00
Sale date: July 19th 2022
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
An Important Estate, Toronto
Heffel Fine Art, auction, Toronto, November 5-26, 2020 (Lot 726)
Private Collection, Toronto
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Ronald York Wilson
(1907 - 1984) RCA, OSA
York Wilson studied commercial art at Central Technical School and first worked at Brigden's engraving house in Toronto (1926), where he was influenced by Charles Comfort and Will Ogilvie. Wilson was first recognized for paintings of the burlesque, such as those he exhibited with the Canadian Group of Painters at the World's Fair in New York (1939), and other social commentary pictures. He became a full-time painter in 1950. Trips to Mexico in 1950 and 1953 exposed him to the influence of Rico Lebrun and stimulated an interest in mural painting.
Wilson was best known for his commissioned murals, including those for McGill University's library (Montréal, 1954) and the Imperial Oil Building (Toronto, 1957). In the later 1950s, his interest in "picture construction" led him to abstract painting and then, in the 1960s, into geometric art.
Reference:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/ronald-york-wilson
