Artist John Young Johnstone
Title Retour des Champs [Return from the Fields]
Media oil on canvas
Dated 1914
Size 12 x 15 in. / 30.5 x 38.1 cm.
Frame Size 22 x 25 x 2.75 in.

Place Absentee Bid Share Share

Notes
signed and dated lower left; bears title on exhibition and gallery labels verso; framed; canvas relined

Reference
Deus Cents ans de Peinture Quebecoise [Two Hundred Years of Quebec Painting], McGill University, July 30 & 31, 1969, cat. No. 37, exhibition label verso)

Provenance
ex-collection Gilles Corbeil, Montreal; Galerie Bernard Desroches, Montreal, partial label and 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
John Young Johnstone ~ [1887-1930] Canadian
see N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, by C.Hill, pg.348; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.3, pg.571; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.80, Westbridge Pub., 2000; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg213 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.194