Lot 15: KENNETH CAMPBELL LOCHHEAD, R.C.A., THE BURIAL, 1953, oil on canvas, 16 ins x 24 ins; 61 cms x 61 cms

Name: KENNETH CAMPBELL LOCHHEAD, R.C.A., THE BURIAL, 1953, oil on canvas, 16 ins x 24 ins; 61 cms x 61 cms
Brand: Waddington's
SKU: 9db43a3997
Price: 1500 CAD

Est: $3,000 CAD - $4,000 CADSold:

Waddington'sToronto, ON, CASeptember 17, 2020

Item Overview

Description

KENNETH CAMPBELL LOCHHEAD, R.C.A.
THE BURIAL, 1953

oil on canvas
signed and dated "feb/53" to stretcher; also titled to exhibition label on the reverse
16 ins x 24 ins; 61 cms x 61 cms

Provenance:
Private Collection, Alberta

Exhibited:
Saskatchewan Arts Board Fifth Annual Saskatchewan Art Exhibition - The Saskatchewan Arts Board, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1 March 1954.
Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light, The MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan,
January 29-May 23, 2005.

Literature:
Ted Fraser, Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light [1948 to 2002]. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2005, unpaginated

A gathering of people keep vigil around a coffin in an otherwise bare prairie landscape. The clothespeg-like figures and geometric shapes that surround them exemplify the modernism that Kenneth Lochhead, as a member of The Regina Five, is known for developing. Lochhead painted a number of other communal rituals of daily life on the prairies in this style, including The Bonspiel, 1954 (The Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection), The Review, 1953 (Private Collection), and The Dignitary, 1953 (National Gallery of Canada).

The artist studied Italian masters from Piero della Francesca to surrealist Giorgio de Chirico while studying at the Barnes Foundation as well as during his travels to Europe as a student. The fixed vanishing point shadows and the gathering of people within an architectural composition is a nod to these artists.

This is a seminal painting for Lochhead, embodying a key moment of modernism and surrealism in Canada. It was included in his first major retrospective in 2005, titled “Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light.” Curator Ted Fraser wrote of the painting in the exhibition’s catalogue, “ The Burial communicates how Saskatchewan is born of the travail of nineteenth-century homesteaders who built sod huts, towns, and province on community goodwill.” ¹

¹Ted Fraser, Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light [1948 to 2002]. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2005. unpaginated

Estimate: $3,000–4,000

Dimensions

16 ins x 24 ins; 61 cms x 61 cms

Artist or Maker

Kenneth Campbell

Medium

oil on canvas

Exhibited

Saskatchewan Arts Board Fifth Annual Saskatchewan Art Exhibition - The Saskatchewan Arts Board, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1 March 1954. Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light, The MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, January 29-May 23, 2005.

Literature

Ted Fraser, Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light [1948 to 2002]. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2005, unpaginated

Provenance

Private Collection, Alberta

Notes

A gathering of people keep vigil around a coffin in an otherwise bare prairie landscape. The clothespeg-like figures and geometric shapes that surround them exemplify the modernism that Kenneth Lochhead, as a member of The Regina Five, is known for developing. Lochhead painted a number of other communal rituals of daily life on the prairies in this style, including The Bonspiel, 1954 (The Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection), The Review, 1953 (Private Collection), and The Dignitary, 1953 (National Gallery of Canada). The artist studied Italian masters from Piero della Francesca to surrealist Giorgio de Chirico while studying at the Barnes Foundation as well as during his travels to Europe as a student. The fixed vanishing point shadows and the gathering of people within an architectural composition is a nod to these artists. This is a seminal painting for Lochhead, embodying a key moment of modernism and surrealism in Canada. It was included in his first major retrospective in 2005, titled “Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light.” Curator Ted Fraser wrote of the painting in the exhibition’s catalogue, “ The Burial communicates how Saskatchewan is born of the travail of nineteenth-century homesteaders who built sod huts, towns, and province on community goodwill.” ¹ ¹Ted Fraser, Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light [1948 to 2002]. Regina: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2005. unpaginated

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