Lot 115: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper 1898 - 1994 Canadian

Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper 1898 - 1994 Canadian oil on board Fishing Village, Peggy's Cove " 12 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches 31.7 x 36.8 centimeters signed and on verso signed, titled, dated 1931 and inscribed ""16 Torrington Place, Ottawa"" Provenance:Private Collection, Montreal The innovative influence of the Group of Seven disseminated into the work of many Canadian landscape painters of the mid-1920s to mid-1930s, one of the most outstanding being Kathleen Pepper. A Toronto-based artist who studied at the Ontario College of Art, she painted landscapes of the north shore of Lake Superior and Charlevoix County in Quebec, and made several trips to Labrador and the Maritimes, the source of this vigorous painting of Nova Scotia. As well as landscape, she was known for her subjects of Inuit, Montagnais and Stony Indian peoples. In 1934, Pepper, along with her husband, artist George Pepper, made her headquarters in the Studio Building in Toronto made famous by the Group of Seven, and remained there for 17 years. As well as exhibiting extensively in Canada, Pepper exhibited internationally, notably in the British Empire Exhibition in 1936 and the 1938 exhibition A Century of Canadian Art at the Tate Gallery in London. Fishing Village, Peggy's Cove is a fresh, bold work with strongly defined forms, full of the colourful details of this fine harbour scene.