William Paterson Ewen 1925 - 2002

Private Collection, Quebec City

Matthew Teitelbaum, editor, Paterson Ewen, Toronto, 1996, p. 18

This work is in excellent condition. Under UV there is evidence of minor inpainting along the edges and in the purple in the lower left.
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Although this fine work is not dated, it would have been painted well before the inventive works of the phenomena of the heavens, rain and clouds of the 1970's.

Earlier in his career, Ewen had painted landscapes and still lifes and by the end of 1954 created his first abstracts.  He commented: "But I could never be an Automatiste or an abstract expressionist because it was not in my temperament to do anything quite that unstructured."