Lot 122: Edwin Headley Holgate 1892 - 1977 Canadian oil on

Edwin Headley Holgate 1892 - 1977 Canadian oil on panel Frog Pond (Great Bug Pond, Cachée River) 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches 21.6 x 26.7 centimeters initialed and on verso signed, titled Frog Pond, inscribed with the Dominion Gallery inventory #1358d and stamped Dominion Gallery Literature:Rosalind Pepall and Brian Foss, Edwin Holgate, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005, the 1939 canvas entitled Great Bug Pond, Cachée River reproduced page 148 Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Personal Art Collection Catalogue, reproduced, unpaginated, catalogue #R9 Provenance:Dominion Gallery, Montreal, inventory #1358d, acquired April 12, 1947 for $60 Estate of Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton, Montreal Edwin Holgate was an important figure in Montreal's artistic community, and by the 1930s had achieved considerable recognition. He was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists, a prime mover in the formation of the Beaver Hall Group and was a respected figure and landscape painter, printmaker and teacher at the École des beaux-arts. He went on sketching trips with Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson, was included in early Group exhibitions, and in 1929 joined them as an eighth member. He took part in important international exhibitions such as the 1924 and 1925 British Empire Exhibitions at Wembley and the 1927 Exposition d'art Canadien at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 1925, Holgate built a painting cabin at Lac Tremblant in the Laurentians to immerse himself in painting the landscape. Frog Pond is an outstanding example of his landscape work at its finest - a strong composition with a lofty perspective over sun-drenched land, saturated with brilliant blue, green and gold. From this superb oil sketch, Holgate produced the stunning 1939 canvas Great Bug Pond, Cachée River, sold at Heffel's on November 18, 1999.