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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.