FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL, O.S.A., R.C.A.
THE HILLTOP, oil on board, signed
Painted circa 1920.
10 ins x 12 ins; 25 cms x 30 cms
Auction Estimate: $50,000 / 70,000

Price Realised: $138,000.00
Provenance: Acquired from the artist’s wife
Literature: Megan Bice, Light & Shadow: The Work of Franklin Carmichael, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 1990, page 22, plate 10 and page 30, plate 19 for similar works. Charles C. Hill, The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, Toronto, 1995, pages 104-105, 313 and Fig.55 (cat.no.39) for Carmichael’s canvas entitled The Hilltop (collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).
Hill writes that in 1921 Carmichael exhibited four canvases in the second Group of Seven show including the “delicately drawn and coloured The Hilltop that the National Gallery’s trustees purchased. This was the first Carmichael to be acquired, ensuring that each member of the Group was represented by at least one painting in the National Gallery by 1921.”
This lot is the oil sketch for the canvas in the National Gallery of Canada.

DAVID BROWN MILNE
TREES AND BOULDERS, oil on canvas
Painted at Boston Cornets, N.Y., in 1916.
20 ins x 24 ins; 50 cms x 60 cms
EST. $75,000 / 100,000
PRICE: $109,250.00
Provenance: Milne Estate, 1976
Literature: David Milne Jr. and David P. Silcox, David B. Milne: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Volume I: 1882-1928, Toronto, 1998, page 169, no.107.36, reproduced.

ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A, R.C.A.
LE TROISIEME RANG - ST. ADELE EN HAUT, oil on canvas, signed

25 ins x 32 ins; 62.5 cms x 80 cms
Auction Estimate: $50,000 / 60,000

Price Realised: $97,750.00
Provenance: Acquired from the artist by the present owner’s mother. Private collection, Montreal

ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
APRIL, GEORGIAN BAY, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘20

25 ins x 32 ins; 62.5 cms x 80 cms
EST. $40,000 / 60,000
PRICE: $109,250.00
Provenance: Acquired from the artist, Mr. P.R. Hilborn, Ottawa. By descent to the present owner
Exhibited: Exhibition of Paintings by the Group of Seven Canadian Artists, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetrs, November 7-28, 1920, cat.no.9. Also exhibited in Boston, Rochester, Toledo, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Minneapolis and closed at Muskegon, Michigan in January, 1922. A.Y. Jackson: Paintings 1902-1953, The Art Gallery of Toronto, October-November 1953 and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, December-January 1954, cat.no.30(a)
Literature: A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country, Toronto / Vancouver, 1958. The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, 1989, page 62 for First Snow, Algoma, reproduced in colour. Charles C. Hill / Pierre Landry, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Art, Volume Two I G-K, Ottawa, 1994, pages 194-195, cat.nos.1813 and 5051 for two other canvases of Georgian Bay subjects from 1920 in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Charles C. Hill, The Group of Seven, Art for a Nation, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1995, page 117, Fig.69, for photographs of the exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum in November 1920 in which this work can be seen.

ROBERT WAKEHAM PILOT, P.R.C.A.
LEVIS VU DE LA TERRASSE DUFFERIN, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘57

22 ins x 28 ins; 55 cms x 70 cms
Auction Estimate: $80,000 / 100,000

Price Realised: $103,500.00
Provenance: Watson Art Galleries, Montreal, Mrs. Ward C. Pitfield, Montreal, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, Private Collection, Montreal
Exhibited: Robert Pilot Retrospective Exhibition, La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, September 12-24, 1988, cat.no.20.
Literature: Robert W Pilot Retrospective, catalogue, Montreal, 1968, plates 36 and 74 for similar views.