Art canadien classique
Autumn Gold, Laurentians, 1927
61 x 81.3 cm
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery Cullen Inventory No. AK0624
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery Cullen Inventory No. 624
Inscriptions
signed, ‘M CULLEN’ (lower right)Provenance
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal
Miss Helen Norton & Mr Harry Norton, Coaticook, Quebec
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Mr & Mrs Jules Loeb, Ottawa
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal
Private collection, Westmount, Quebec
Expositions
Montreal, Watson Art Gallery, 6th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Pastels by Maurice Cullen RCA, 16 - 25 January, 1928.
Montreal, Watson Art Gallery, 7th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Pastels by Maurice Cullen RCA, 12 - 26 January, 1929.
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Canadian Group of Painters, November 3 - December 14, 1960, no. 27.
Montreal, Sir George Williams University, The Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb Collection, September 1 - 30, 1970; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, , October 16 - November 15, 1970; Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery, January 15 - February 15, 1971; Vancouver, University of British Columbia, March 1 - 31, 1971; Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery, April 15 - May 15, 1971; Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, July 15 - August 15, 1971; Fredericton, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, September 1 - 30, 1971, no. 11.
Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) Retrospective Exhibition, September 16 - 30, 2000, no. 16.
Montreal, Galerie Eric Klinkhoff Inc., Painters of Mont-Tremblant (1910-1960), September 26 - October 10, 2015, no. 8.
Documentation
Jean Sutherland Boggs, The Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loeb Collection (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1970), n.p.
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc. and Conrad Graham, Maurice Cullen Retrospective Exhibition (Montreal: Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., 2000), 6 [reproduced].
The Gazette, 16 September 2000, p. J2 [reproduced].
Cullen’s Autumn Gold is a hymn to the sun setting over the entire region. It is a richly painted panorama of the region Maurice Cullen celebrated in his interpretation of the techniques of the French impressionists he had studied. This can be appropriately mated with the National Gallery of Canada’s often reproduced spring composition The Valley of the Devil’s River.
