Notable Sales
Sun, Fog and Ice, Smith Sound (Arctic Painting IV), 1931
101.6 x 127 cm
Provenance
Artist;
Fine Art Galleries T. Eaton Co. College Street, Toronto, 1953.
Private collection, Toronto.
Roland Dumais, Montreal.
Christie’s in Canada, 14 Oct. 1971, lot 72, Montreal.
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal;
Acquired from the above by Mitzi and Mel Dobrin.Exhibitions
Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, May 1931, Arctic Sketches by Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson, R.C.A, no. 390 as Sun, Fog and Ice, Smith Sound.
Vancouver, Vancouver Exhibition, Exhibition of Paintings and Photography, Sketches of the Canadian North by Lawren Harris, R.C.A. [sic] and A.Y. Jackson, R.C.A., August 22 - August 29, 1931, no. 317 as Fog and Ice, South [sic] Sound.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibition by the Group of Seven, no. 64 as Sun, Fog and Ice, Smith Sound $750.
Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, 25 August - 9 September 1939, no. 95 as Sun, Fog and Ice, Smith Sound.
Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, 25 August – 9 September 1950, no. 150 as Sun, Fog and Ice, Smith Sound oil on canvas 40 x 50, Lent by the artist.
Toronto, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, Lawren Harris & Canadian Masters: Historic Sale Celebrating Canada's 150 Years, April 1 - April 30, 2017.Literature
E.W. Harrold, “Seventh Group of Seven Show,” The Morning Citizen (Ottawa: 29 December 1931).
The paintings of Lawren Harris compiled by Mrs. Gordon Mills, July-December 1936 as Arctic Paintings, no. 4.
Jeremy Adamson, Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978), pp. 190-195.
