Sunny Day, near St. Jovite, 1923
45.7 x 57.1 cm
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery Cullen Inventory No. AK1057
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery Cullen Inventory No. 1057
Inscriptions
signed, ‘M CULLEN/ [illegible] (lower right)Provenance
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private collection, Westmount, Quebec
Exhibitions
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) Retrospective Exhibition, September 16 - 30, 2000, no. 11.Montreal, Galerie Eric Klinkhoff Inc., Painters of Mont-Tremblant (1910-1960), September 26 - October 10, 2015, no. 6.
“I think it was in 1912 that Rickson Outhet invited him to Lac Tremblant. The lake, the mountains, and above all the Caché River had for him, and its resistible charm that drew him back here year after year until the end of his life”, Robert Pilot wrote. He continued, “When we consider that he went into these hills, where none had painted before, and conceived a vision of them, which is as much his as Venice is Turner’s, we may judge the statue of the man. We have seen these mountains ourselves, but I think we see them differently because of his eyes.” [1]
In the early 1920s, Cullen built a modest cabin adjacent to the river where he would live and sketch for several weeks. From here, for the ensuing 10 years, hiking, canoeing or snowshoeing about, Cullen sketched what would become his most iconic works.
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Footnote:
[1] Robert Pilot, “Maurice Cullen, R.C.A”, The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec, July-September 1954, Vol. LXXX, No.3, 139.
