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Lot 57
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David Brown Milne 1882 - 1953

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 CAD
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Description

  • David Brown Milne
  • Rolling Landscape with Clouds

  • 1920

    signed and dated upper left David B. Milne August 11, '20

  • watercolour

  • 37.5 by 53.7 cm.
  • 14 ¾ by 21 1/8 in.

Provenance

Picture Loan Society, Toronto

Collection of the Late Victor Lange

Exhibited

Picture Loan Society, Toronto 1942, as Valley in the Berkshires

Literature

David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume 1: 1882-1928, 201.104, reproduced

Catalogue Note

The summer of 1920 was Milne's first back in Boston Corners after his momentous service in the army and his work for the Canadian War Records, and it ended in a crescendo of activity that produced some of his finest and seminal paintings late that summer and into the autumn.

This watercolour and a related one (New England Landscape), were done on the same day, when Milne climbed to a high prominence in order to look west out across the valley below, toward the Hudson River valley in the farthest distance. Milne wasn't totally satisfied with the way he drew the clouds in the first painting, and he or Douglas Duncan subsequently cut about five inches (15 cm.) off the top, but he was happier about the result in the afternoon version:

106. August 11, afternoon. Watercolor half sheet. Similar subject and same idea [as New England Landscape]. Sky much more thoughtful and varied. Contours merging into patches. Dark mass in foreground not very decided.