Artist Maurice Galbraith Cullen
Title Mount Girard Near Banff
Media oil on wood board
Size 8.5 x 6 in. / 21.6 x 15.2 cm.
Frame Size 15.25 x 13 x 1.5 in.
Notes
signed with initials lower right; bears title and date on exhibition and gallery labels verso; framed
Reference
Exquisite Passage, Whyte Museum, Banff, 1993 exhibition label verso; bears inscription 'given by Cullen to Mr. and Mrs. J. Beattie [his neighbours in Chambly, Quebec as a wedding gift in 1934] on gallery label verso; the artist travelled to Banff in 1930 with his wife and William Watson; he exhibited two larger canvases, Mount Norquay from Echo River and Mount Norquay with the RCA in 1930; this appears to be a preliminary sketch for the two paintings; it is also likely this painting exhibited at the Watson Exhibition in 1931)
Provenance
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
Maurice Galbraith Cullen ~ [1866-1934] Canadian CAC, RCA
see Maurice Cullen by W.Watson, Ryerson Press; Maurice Cullen by T.R. MacDonald, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1956; Maurice Cullen 1866-1934, by S.Antoniou, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1982; Maurice Cullen and His Circle, by C.Parson, NGC, 2006; other examples in N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.234; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.93; biography in E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg. 80; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg. 88 and M.M.F.A., pg.87 by E.McMann; biographies in MacDonald, Vol.1, pg.157; Robson, pg.71