7th SUMMER SALE Canada Painting WILLIAM CRUIKSHANK 'Woman Sewing', 8" x 10"

Description: 7TH ANNUAL SUMMER SALE NOW *Price Shown is the Sale Price ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............WILLIAM CRUIKSHANK............'WOMAN SEWING', 8" x 10"............. This is an 8" x 10" Original and Vintage oil painting by the important Canadian painter William Cruikshank, 1848-1922. The image shows a woman seated in an interior next to an open window. Signed at lower left. Fine condition. Very well framed. The Biography Follows: An important Canadian educator, painter, printmaker, draftsman, muralist and illustrator, William Cruikshank was born in Broughty Ferry, Scotland (about 3 miles east of Dundee). He immigrated to Toronto, Ontario with his family in 1857, and died in Kansas City, Missouri, where he had been convalescing with his sister since 1919. Most Canadian art history books discuss Cruikshank, his works are in the National Gallery of Canada, and among his many prominent former students are such Canadian art icons as Tom Thomson and Group of Seven* members J.E.H. MacDonald, Franklin Carmichael and Franz Johnston. (2) Quote: "Old Cruikshank, for instance, with his 'Breaking a Road', was a more direct Canadian influence among us than any Krieghoff…" - J.E.H. MacDonald (3) Cruikshank's mediums included oil, pen & ink, graphite, chalk, crayon, etching, fresco and magazine illustration. His subjects were portraits, landscapes, farm activities, still life, historical subjects, genre, figures, snowscapes, interiors and news events. The painting locations included Ontario, Quebec, the Rocky Mountains, and the Netherlands. His style was Realism*. (4) Quote: "William Cruikshank was one of the most influential realists of his era." - Paul Duval (5) Since he spent most of his life teaching and drawing, not a lot of paintings were created by Cruikshank, and consequently they rarely come up for auction. The best sources for illustrations of his easel work are books, some suggestions are Home Truths: A Celebration of Family Life by Canada's Best-Loved Painters and High Realism in Canada both of which have a color illustration of his masterpiece Anne Cruikshank (AGO collection); and Passionate Spirits: A History of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1880 - 1980, which has a full page black and white photo of "Breaking a Road" (NGC collection). Please see AskART book references for more titles of illustrated books. Cruikshank's art education includes studies at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (c. 1864 - 1868) under Hugh Cameron; the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (c.1870), the Atelier Adolphe Yvon, Paris (c.1870); and the Royal Academy Schools, London (c. 1871) under Frederick Leighton, John Everett Millais, William Quiller Orchardson, Philip H. Calderon and Norman Macbeth. In the 1870s, Cruikshank worked as an illustrator for Cassels and London Graphic in London, England; Scribners, and St. Nicholas Magazine in New York City (c. 1873 - 1877); and Canadian Illustrated News, Montreal (1876 - 1879). (6) His teaching career began in about 1882 at the Ontario College of Art*, Toronto where he taught until 1919. (7) Cruikshank was a founding member of the Toronto Etching Society (1885); the Toronto Art Students' League (c.1887); and the Society of Mural Decorators, Toronto (1894). He was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists (1882 - 1887); the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (Associate 1884 - 1887 and 1893; Academician 1894); and the Guild of Civic Artists, Toronto (1897). He exhibited with the Royal Academy, London, England (1866 - 1879); Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1883 - 1913); the Ontario Society of Artists (1883 - 1907); the Art Association of Montreal [now Montreal Museum of Fine Arts] (1885 - 1910); the Toronto Industrial Exhibition [now Canadian National Exhibition] (1894 - 1900); and the Canadian National Exhibition (1903 - 1910). His paintings were also included in the "World's Columbian Exposition"*, Chicago (1893); the "Pan-American Exposition", Buffalo, New York (1901); the "Louisiana Purchase Exposition"*, St. Louis, Missouri (1904); and in "Festival of Empire", Crystal Palace, London, England (1910). In 1918 the Art Gallery of Toronto (now Art Gallery of Ontario) held a solo exhibition titled "William Cruikshank". Posthumously, his works were included in several landmark exhibitions such as "A Century of Canadian Art", Tate Gallery, London, England (1938); "Development of Painting in Canada, 1665 - 1945", National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Quebec Museum of Fine Arts, and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1945); "Ontario Society of Artists Retrospective", (1947); "Faces of Canada" Stratford, Ontario Festival of Art Exhibition (1964); "Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1967); "Heroes and Heroines", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1978); and in "Scottish Painting in Canada", at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (1978). According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network* and individual museum websites, there are William Cruikshank works in the permanent collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, Ontario), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Museum London (Ontario), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as represented.

Price: 695 USD

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

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