26,7 x 34,9 cm / 10.5 x 13.75 in

L'artiste canadienne Bernice Martin a été émue par la beauté de la campagne dans laquelle elle a grandi. Dans cette peinture d'un lac du nord de l'Ontario, elle a capturé le boisé vallonné, les collines en arrière-plan et la baie attirant le regard du spectateur vers le centre. Les coups de pinceau sont typiquement impressionnistes - petits et visibles; la lumière est naturelle. / Canadian artist Bernice Martin was moved by the beauty of the countryside that she grew up in. In this painting of a northern Ontario Lake, she has captured the rolling treed landscape, hills in the background, a patch of blue—the bay drawing the viewer’s eye to the center. The brushstrokes are characteristically impressionist—small and visible; the light is natural…the colours—forest green, sky blue, orange-red soil highlighted in soft yellow. "I look back on my life and my painting hours were the happiest. I'd spend long hours and forget time…my time was always measured by the passage of light." (Bernice Fenwick Martin) She was born in Shelburne Ontario in 1902 and studied at the Ontario College of Art under renowned Canadian artists J.W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael (member of the Group of Seven). Martin went on to study and became friends with Peter Clapham Sheppard, an impressionist painter whom she worked with until his death in 1965. Martin's works have been exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1945-1947, the T. Eaton Co.'s College Street Fine Art Gallery, Casa Loma, the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her paintings may be found in many private, corporate, and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada.

Non encadrée / Not framed

Huile sur toile cartonnée / Oil on canvas board

Signée au bas à gauche; titrée au dos / Signed lower left; titled on verso