Artist Peter Shostak
Title We Did Not Want to Settle in 'Siniboia
Media oil on canvas
Dated
2012
Size 24 x 30 in. / 61 x 76.2 cm.
Frame Size 35.5 x 41.5 x 1.5 in.
Notes
signed lower right; bears title and date on gallery label verso; framed
Provenance
Canada House Gallery, Banff, 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
Peter Shostak ~ [b.1943] Canadian
see artist's website www.petershostak.com
see When Nights Were Long, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1982; Saturday Came but Once a Week, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1984; For Our Children, by P.Shostak, Yalenka Books, 1991; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 23, Westbridge Pub., 2003; 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; large exhibition opening Oct. 16, 2014 at West End Gallery, Edmonton