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Lot 98
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Doris Jean McCarthy 1910 - 2010

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 CAD
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Description

  • Doris Jean McCarthy
  • Iceberg Fantasy #28
  • signed lower right DORIS MCCARTHY; titled on a gallery label on the reverse

  • oil on canvas

  • 121.9 by 162.6 cm.
  • 48 by 64 in.

Provenance

Aggregation Gallery, Toronto

Private Collection, Toronto

Literature

William Moore, Doris McCarthy, Feast of Incarnation, Paintings 1929-1989, Gallery Stratford, 1991, pp. 28 and 32

Catalogue Note

McCarthy had, as early mentors and teachers, four members of the Group of Seven: Lismer, Harris, MacDonald and Jackson.

When McCarthy retired from teaching in 1972, she made the first of many trips to the Arctic.  After her first year painting the Arctic landscape she wrote, "I met my very first iceberg and I went crazy about icebergs and I started doing ice form fantasies."  She was to paint more than sixty of these fantasies which are considered to be among her best known works.

William Moore comments on her monumental Arctic works: "Her skillful compositional manoeuvres invite us to enter, share and wander within the experience of the artist.  We share this place; her structures surround us and we enter into a communion not only with the landscape, but with the artist."

See next lot for the watercolour on which this canvas is based.