signed lower right; titled and dated 1968 on the reverse
9.25 × 11.25 in (23.5 × 28.6 cm)
(including Buyer's Premium)
Private Collection, Toronto
A.J. Casson held his first one-man show at Roberts Gallery in March of 1959, followed by five more solo exhibitions between 1959 and 1972. This new association with Roberts Gallery in Toronto allowed the artist freedom from his commercial art career and led to a great period of artistic production for Casson from the 1960s onward. In 1967, Casson was awarded the Silver Centennial Medal and his work was included in Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada.
The Conroy Marsh is a wetland in Renfrew County, Ontario, located at the junction of the Madawaska, York and Little Mississippi Rivers south of the village of Combermere. With its rocky hills flanking the shorelines of the Little Mississippi and York Rivers, before they merge and empty into the Madawaska River at Negeek Lake, the environment offered a variety of secluded areas for artistic inspiration. In this intimate depiction of Conroy Marsh, Casson presents the tranquil wetland landscape, with a band of golden marsh grasses leading the eye into the central shoreline. The broad expanse of sky above is animated by stylized, billowing clouds, rendered in soft greys and creams against a clear blue ground.
