Artist Roland Gissing
Title Winter in the Foothills
Media oil on canvas board
Dated 1966
Size 14 x 17.5 in. / 35.6 x 44.4 cm.
Frame Size 20 x 23.75 x 1.5 in.

Place Absentee Bid Share Share

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

Reference
lot includes Roland Gissing: The Peoples' Painter by Max Foran and Nonie Houlton, published by The University of Calgary Press, 1988)

Provenance
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
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

biography and other examples in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.278 Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.12, Westbridge Pub., 2000; The Alberta Society of Artists: Sixty Years, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1992 Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955 Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 55, pg. 369, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009

exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.149 M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.145

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]