Lot 153: Kathleen Moir Morris 1893 - 1986 Canadian oil on

Kathleen Moir Morris 1893 - 1986 Canadian oil on board Towheys House, Marshall's Bay 12 x 14 inches 30.5 x 35.6 centimeters signed and on verso titled on the artist's label Provenance:A gift from the Artist in the 1930s to the present Private Collector, Ontario This lot and lot 149 in the sale were a gift from Kathleen Morris to one of her art students, whose family had a cottage down the road from the Morris family cottage in Marshall's Bay near Arnprior in Ontario. Throughout her life, Morris spent summers at this simple cottage (there was no running water or electricity until 1950) which belonged to her grandparents and had been in the family for over 100 years. As a child, she fished and swam there, and later, when an accomplished artist and a member of the Beaver Hall Group, the cottage was a studio base where Morris developed her winter oil sketches into larger canvases. She also made painting forays into the surrounding farms and countryside, where she produced this serene oil sketch. Lush, assured brush-strokes vigorously define this pastoral scene, while the warm light flooding the house, together with the closeness of the blue sky with its flotilla of white cumulous clouds, creates a nostalgic longing for the dream-like peace of the countryside.