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Lot 128
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Frederick Simpson Coburn 1871 - 1971

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 CAD
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Description

  • Frederick Simpson Coburn
  • Going to Town, Winter, Quebec
  • signed and dated '26 lower left

  • oil on canvas
  • 40.6 by 61 cm.
  • 16 by 24 in.

Provenance

William Scott & Sons, Montreal

R.W. Reford, Esq., Montreal

H.C. Thomas MacDougall and Mrs. Ward C. Pitfield

Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal

Private Collection, New York

Catalogue Note

Coburn's winter scenes of Canada rank among the best-loved. He is well-known for scenes of bright, snow-laden winter landscapes with horses or oxen-drawn sleighs of logs lumbering through the wintry countryside of the Laurentians or the Eastern Townships.  Many, like this fine work, are of people bundled up against the cold. Coburn masterfully shows the effect of light and shadows on the roads and snowbanks as well as the crisp, frosty atmosphere of the scene.