BCSFA RCA
1896 - 1970
Canadian
B.C. Maples, Autumn
oil on canvas, circa 1933 - 1934
signed and on verso titled on a label
36 x 44 in, 91.4 x 111.8 cm
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 CAD
Sold for: $20,000
Preview at: Heffel Vancouver
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist by J.W. Devitt
By descent to the present Private Collection, British Columbia
LITERATURE
James Warren Felter, Paul Rand 1896 - 1970: A Retrospective Survey, Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, 1972, reproduced as frontispiece and listed, unpaginated
Maria Tippett and Douglas Cole, From Desolation to Splendour: Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape, 1977, page 113
Roger Boulet, Paul Rand, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1980, reproduced as frontispiece and listed pages 11, 14 and 21
EXHIBITED
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, label on verso
Vancouver Art Gallery, Third Annual B.C. Artists' Exhibition, September 21 - October 14, 1934
Vancouver Art Gallery, Six Local Artists, July 12 - 27, 1938
Vancouver Art Gallery, Stanley Park in Pictures, August 13 - 25, 1946
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Paul Rand 1896 - 1970: A Retrospective Survey, February 22 - March 10, 1972
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Paul Rand, 1980, catalogue #10
Paul Rand immigrated to Canada from Germany, settling in 1926 in Vancouver, where he took courses at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts with Jock Macdonald, W.P. Weston and Frederick Varley. Like many well-known artists of the time, such as Group of Seven artist A.J. Casson, Rand worked in commercial art firms and painted on weekends and holidays. He became part of a new generation of artists on the West Coast, showing at both the British Columbia Society of Artists annual exhibitions and the B.C. Artists’ Annual Exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Roger Boulet notes in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1980 retrospective catalogue essay that this is among the most significant works painted by Rand. Certainly this is made evident by the selection of this painting as the cover image for the catalogue; both for the AGGV exhibition, as well as the catalogue for the Paul Rand retrospective at the Simon Fraser Gallery in 1972.
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