Lot 17
FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL, O.S.A., R.C.A.
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, sale, Toronto, November 3, 1993, lot 303.
Private Collection, Ontario.
Literature:
Megan Bice, Light & Shadow: The Work of Franklin Carmichael, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 1990, pages 37-40 and cat. no’s 82 and 84 for other works painted during this period.
Note:
The year 1924 marked Carmichael’s return to the watercolour medium. His desire to install watercolour in its rightful place of importance was manifested in his founding in 1925, with A.J. Casson and F.H. Brigden, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour.