Artist Roland Gissing
Title Storm Over Minnewanka
Media oil on canvas
Dated 1953
Size 27 x 35 in. / 68.6 x 88.9 cm.
Frame Size 36.25 x 44.5 x 2 in.

Place Absentee Bid Share Share

Notes
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated on artist's label verso; framed

Provenance
private collection, British Columbia

Biographical Information
Roland Gissing ~ [1895-1967] Canadian ASA
for biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.rolandgissing.com; see Roland Gissing, The People's Painter, by M.Foran, UofC Press, 1988 for many examples of the artist's work; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.278 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.12, Westbridge Pub., 2000; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.149 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.145; included in The Alberta Society of Artists: Sixty Years, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1992; Colgate, pg.184; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; see Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 55, pg. 369, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website