Description
A limited edition reproduction giclée print depicting an image of a lily pond in the Georgian Bay area. Original oil painting was completed by Lismer in 1948. Double matted with a white top mat and black trim, framed in a 2 1/4″ flat black moulding. NUMBERED out of 1917 (additional series can be printed) & Hallmark Certificate of Excellence.
About the artist: Arthur Lismer was born in 1885 in Sheffield, England but moved to Montreal, QC at an early age. From 1920 he was a member of the Group of Seven. Hired at the commercial art firm Grip Limited, and later at Rous & Mann, in Toronto, he met fellow artists J.E.H. MacDonald, Franklin Carmichael, and Tom Thomson. In 1913 he went on his first painting trip to Georgian Bay with his wife, Esther, and their baby daughter, and in 1914 to Algonquin Park. Lismer was a charter member of the Group of Seven, and joined his fellow artists on painting trips to the Algoma region and north shore of Lake Superior. In 1928 he painted in the Rockies and from 1930 in the Atlantic provinces. His Impressionist-influenced paintings of the 1910s evolved into a more angular and cruder expression that he equated with the Canadian terrain and national identity.
Dimensions: 31 H x 35 W
