Lot 84: Kenneth Campbell Lochhead 1926 -2006 Canadian

Kenneth Campbell Lochhead 1926 -2006 Canadian acrylic on canvas Yellowscape 13 x 68 3/4 inches 33 x 174.6 centimeters on verso signed twice, titled and dated 1969 twice Provenance:Acquired directly from the Artist by the present Private Collection, Toronto The present owner of Yellowscape became acquainted with Kenneth Lochhead during the time he was an Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Manitoba from 1964 to 1973. In her capacity as manager of the Art Rental department of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, she often visited his studio and those of many other local artists. She has particularly fond memories of observing Lochhead at work on this canvas and was witness to his striving to perfect the primary hue in this work, his aim being to duplicate the stunning yellow of a late August wheat field. Having herself been entranced by that sight on the Prairies, and delighted with the artist's successful achievement, she purchased Yellowscape from him as soon as it was completed. Deceiving in its simplicity, this work represents the paring down of the elements used to produce the post-painterly abstract works that Lochhead created beginning in the early 1960s and may, in fact, be one of the last of the stained canvases he made prior to changing his stylistic format in the 1970s.