Artist Thomas Mower Martin
Title Corduroy Road
Media oil on canvas
Size 17.25 x 24.25 in. / 43.8 x 61.6 cm.
Frame Size 24.75 x 31.75 x 2.5 in.

Place Absentee Bid Share Share

Notes
signed lower left; bears title on plaque; framed; repair noted centre right

Provenance
Canadiana Galleries LTD, Calgary, label verso; from a Calgary estate

Biographical Information
Thomas Mower Martin ~ [1838-1934] Canadian OSA, RCA
Mower Martin was a founding member of the Ontario Society of Artists [OSA] and a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts [RCA].

see The Father of Canadian Art, Thomas Mower Martin, by T.Graeme, T and T Enertprises, Sidney, 2009;

biography and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.208; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.299; R.O.M. Canadian Watercolours, by M.Allodi; biographies in E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.217; MacDonald, Vol.4, pg.1113 Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.16, Westbridge Pub.; Canadian Landscape Painters, by A.Robson, pg.42, Ryerson Press, 1932 Canadian Art: Its Origin and Development, by W.Colgate, pg.24

exhibition lists in
R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.271;
M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.255

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]