Artist Unknown
Acrylic on Canvas, 18 x 24 inches
GW20191050
Untitled 895
Tag: Edmonton
Untitled 896
Unknown Artist
Watercolour, 9 x 36 inches
VV2019999
Untitled 894
M.C.A.
Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 12 inches
GWIC20190150
Tulips, 2006
Sylvia Grantins,
Acrylic on canvas, 4 x 4 inches
“The artist: Sylvia Grantins, a painter who now lives in Virginiatown, Ontario, grew up in the lush woods of rural Ontario, just outside the boundaries of Algonquin Park. As the daughter of two artists, Sylvia drew and painted from an early age. She explored springtime creeks, skated on the lake, built forts, and played endless Monopoly with her big sister. A tree planting expedition into the wilds of the north awoke a powerful love for northern Ontario. Through a number of odd jobs, a career in art finally began to take hold. Now, Sylvia lives in a tiny northern town “where the snow swirls..and the lakes, trees, and rocks take my breath away”.
Work days find her making the long commute from the bedroom to her painting table in the next room where the blank canvasses (and her clothes) are soon covered in bright dabs and waves, and spirals of bright colours. All of her scenes are inspired by real-life places, with a bit of imagination. Sylvia’s paintings are found in collections across Canada and all over the world. “ from https://cedarlake.ca/products/original-acrylic-painting-lambs
FD2019300
Untitled 892
Unknown Artist
Watercolour, 4 x 12 inches
GWIC2019200
Lewis Carols House, England
Vivian Dere,
Watercolour, 4 x 4 inches
https://www.artwanted.com/viviandere/gallery/
http://art-walk.ca/artist/vivian-dere
GWIC2019200
Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, 1978
Crane Thomas,
Oil on Board, 8 x 10 inches
VV20191999
Untitled 893
Matt Lindstrom, 1890. – 1975
Oil on Beaverboard, 8 x 10 inches
“Western Canadian artist, Matt Lindstrom was born July 20, 1889 in Helsinki, Finland to Swedish parents. Prior to immigrating to Canada in 1929, Lindstrom had been a police detective, as well as a private detective; however, he received a year of art training at an academy in Helsinki. On the ocean crossing to Canada, Lindstrom met a Norwegian traveler who suggested that he should travel out west. This prompted Lindstrom to spend $85 dollars to travel by rail to Edmonton, Alberta. He decided to stay and work as labourer at a farm because there was a good-looking woman hanging out the wash. Lindstrom made $50 on his first fall harvest, and when he got down to his last $10, he took jobs painting signs, fences, and the inside and outside of houses. Lindstrom would also take house paint and beaverboard and create paintings of farmer’s homesteads for a few dollars or a chicken dinner. Lindstrom moved to Calgary, and 1932 and served with the Calgary Highlanders during WWII. In 1945, Lindstrom received a scholarship from the prestigious Banff School of Fine Arts (today The Banff Centre). From 1954 on, Lindstrom made a career out of creating paintings of the Foothills, the Rocky Mountains, the Prairies, and the animals that reside in these locations. The Earl of Portsmouth reproduced his oil painting, The Trek, which depicts a herd of heifers, for a book. Lindstrom was a member of the Alberta Society of Artists, as well as a lifetime member of The Calgary Sketch Club. Lindstrom passed away July 28, 1975 at the age of 86.” From https://hermis.alberta.ca/afa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=1985.127.001&dv=True
http://www.artnet.com/artists/matt-lindstrom/
http://westbridge-fineart.com/site/past_auctions_artist.php?artistID=1098
GW2020350
St. Georges, Banff, 1974
Margaret Shelton (1915-1984)
Linoblock/paper, 5 x 6 inches
“Over 80 years ago Margaret Shelton began making block prints of her world in Banff National Park, Calgary and the Drumheller Valley.
Born 15 August 1915 on a farm near Bruce, east of Edmonton, she grew up in the Drumheller Valley in south-central Alberta. From an early age she began to draw, and was encouraged by both parents and teachers. Throughout her high-school years, she sketched her surroundings, roaming the hills and mine works, drawing and painting whatever seemed of interest.
While attending Normal school (a teacher’s college in Calgary) during 1933-34, she also took evening classes at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA) where she studied drawing and painting with A.C. Leighton, the celebrated English landscape painter. From 1934 to 1943 she attended PITA on scholarships, under the tutelage of Leighton and H.G. Glyde, among others. In 1941 she learned Japanese wood block printmaking techniques from W.J. Phillips. Shelton taught school periodically for a few years and also worked as a commercial artist at an advertising agency in Toronto for six months before deciding to commit to full-time painting and printmaking.
Margaret Shelton was a committed artist, best known for her intricate linocut prints as well as her watercolour and oil paintings. With a deep passion for nature and the diversity and beauty of the Alberta landscape and built environment, Shelton’s interpretations are distinctively vital and energetic. Her contributions to the development of printmaking in Canada are significant, having created hundreds of prints in her career. Her works are in collections at the National Gallery (Ottawa), the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Glenbow Museum (Calgary).” From http://www.willockandsaxgallery.com/artists/shelton.php#../images/Smarg5o.jpg
https://www.fecklesscollection.ca/margaret-shelton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Shelton_(artist)
VV20201000
Untitled 891, 1993
Linda O’Neill (1951- )
Oil on board, 5 x 7 inches
“Linda O’Neill was born (1951) in Toronto, but for many years made Edmonton Alberta her home. She studied at MacEwan University (Fine Art Diploma 1994), the University of Alberta (BFA 1996), and the University of Guelph (MFA 2000). She has participated in a number of artist’s workshops and residencies, including the Emma Lake Workshop in Saskatchewan, the Leighton Foundation in Alberta and the Gushal Studio in Alberta. She has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions since 1990, and her paintings are included in public, corporate and private collections across Canada and in Europe. She has received study and travel grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, graduate fellowships from University of Guelph, a graduate scholarship from the Province of Ontario and Visual Art Exhibition Assistant Grants from the Ontario Arts Council. She has taught courses for the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph, as well as teaching community art classes and workshops in Alberta and Ontario. Linda presently resides in Guelph.” From https://www.youraga.ca/bio/linda-oneill
GW20201200
Art Discarded 2 