Field and Hills, Bright Day by William Goodridge Roberts




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Goodridge Roberts
Field and Hills, Bright Day
oil on masonite
signed lower right; titled to two gallery labels on the reverse
20 x 24 in ( 50.8 x 61 cm )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Closes May 13th at 02:30:00 PM EDT
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Collection of the late R. Fraser Elliott, Toronto
Ritchies & Sotheby's, auction, Toronto, 21 November 2005, lot 125
Private Collection, New Brunswick
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William Goodridge Roberts
(1904 - 1974) Canadian Group of Painters, RCA
Roberts was born in Barbados in 1904 to a prominent Canadian literary family. His father, Theodore, was a poet, novelist, and journalist. Roberts began his studies at Montreal's Ecole des Beaux-Arts but, encouraged by his art-critic aunt, Mary Fanton Roberts, he enrolled at New York's Art Students League. His New York schooling would prove to be a major influence on his career.
During the 1930s, Roberts lived, painted, and taught in Ontario. He was the very first artist-in-residence at Queens University in Kingston. Refusing to incorporate nationalist content into his work, Roberts became recognized for his modernist approach. In the 1940s, Roberts moved to Montreal and continued painting and teaching. He was admired by Quebec's francophone art community who saw in his work a reflection of the modernist figurative tradition from France, known in Montreal as "living art." His works were equally divided into the themes of landscapes, portraits and still lifes; all are textbook examples of each style. The artist's last major retrospective was held at the National Gallery of Canada in 1969. He died in January 1974.