Artist Cornelius Krieghoff
Title Hunter in a Blizzard
Media oil on canvas
Size 11 x 9 in. / 27.9 x 22.9 cm.
Frame Size 16 x 14.5 x 2.5 in.
Notes
signed lower right; bears title on gallery label verso; framed; canvas relined
Reference
'Certain subjects, such as the Native hunter on Snowshoes, he produced very frequently, sometimes in virtually identical versions ...', page 82 Krieghoff: Images of Canada by Dennis Reid, published by Douglas and McIntyre and the AGO, 1999; see also the same hunter [possibly before the blizzard hit] illustrated on page 97 titled Hunter Restin Gun on Snowshoe circa 1860, from the Thomson Collection)
Provenance
Spiller Gallery, London, label verso; ex-collection Blair Laing, Toronto and Ken Thomson, Toronto; Masters Gallery, Calgary, label verso; from the Estate of Dr. Joan Snyder, a prominent Calgary philanthropist; proceeds from this work will help fulfill Joan's wishes to support the University of Calgary. To read more about Dr. Joan Snyder, visit the University of Calgary's Memoriam
Biographical Information
Cornelius Krieghoff ~ [1815-1872] Canadian
see Cornelius Krieghoff, Pioneer Painter Of North America, by Marius Barbeau, MacMillan Comp, 1934; Krieghoff, J. Russell Harper, UofT, 1979; Krieghoff, Images of Canada, by D.Reid, AG.O., 1999; Krieghoff, by J.R.Harper, Prospero Books, 1999; N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, ed.P.Landry, pg.384; A.G.O., by the A.G.O. pg.232; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., pg. 228 and M.M.F.A., pg.208 by E.McMann; biography in E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.184 and C.MacDonald, Vol.3,pg.679; Robson, pg.19; Colgate, pg.8; Benezit, Tome 6, pg.316; Cloverdale Collection of Canadiana, Public Archives, pg.70