Margaret Shelton - Woodcut " Spray River And Goat Mountain " 1943 - Canada
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Offered here is an original woodcut by Canadian artist Margaret D. Shelton. Print is titled "Spray River and Goat Mountain, Banff". Image size is 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Print is titled in margin at lower left. It is pencil signed at lower right with date of '43 and numbered 23/50. Print has clean matting and original framing with an overall size is ~17 x 18 1/2 inches.Condition is very good with strong color. There is no foxing. Print is not laid down. There is very light UV toning an...d old tape residue along outside margin perimeter.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915-1984) Margaret Shelton -Original Woodcut "Spray River and Goat Mountain" 1943 -Canada Margaret Shelton -Original Woodcut "Spray River and Goat Mountain" 1943 -Canada Click image to enlarge Description Offered here is an original woodcut by Canadian artist/printmaker Margaret D. Shelton. Print is titled "Spray River and Goat Mountain, Banff". Image size is 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Print is titled in margin at lower left. It is pencil signed at lower right with date of '43 and numbered 23/50. Print has clean matting and original framing with an overall size is ~17 x 18 1/2 inches.
Condition is very good with strong color. There is no foxing. Print is not laid down. There is very light UV toning and old tape residue along outside margin perimeter.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915-1984)
Born: Bruce, Alberta, 1915
Died: Calgary, Alberta, 1984
With the Alberta landscape as her main subject matter, Margaret Shelton produced hundreds of pen-and-ink sketches, watercolours and prints. She began depicting her surroundings at a very young age, sketching both natural and industrial landscapes as she roamed the countryside near her family's farm. Despite her promising early attempts, Shelton did not become a full-time, professional artist until later in life, attending teacher's college at Normal School in Calgary (1933-34) and subsequently teaching periodically, and also working at an advertising agency in Toronto as a commercial artist for six months. During these years, she relegated her artistic pursuits to evenings and summers, taking classes at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art where she won scholarships to study drawing and painting from 1934-43. While there, she studied under A.C. Leighton, a celebrated English landscape painter, and H.G. Glyde. Shelton also studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts, graduating with a fine art diploma in 1938. In 1941, she learned Japanese woodblock printing techniques from W.J. Phillips and went on to become one of Canada's most prolific and significant print artists. Throughout her career she exhibited periodically with the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and the Calgary Sketch Club. Other significant exhibitions of her work have been held at the Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia (1981), and at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary (1985). Her works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Edmonton Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Shaw Cable and the Glenbow Museum.
Education: Provincial Institute of Art and Technology, Calgary, Alberta, 1933 - 1943 (under A.C. Leighton, H.G. Glyde); Private study, 1941 (under W.J. Phillips (woodblock printing); Banff School of Fine Arts, ? - 1938
Memberships: Calgary Sketch Club; Canadian Society of Graphic Art; Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers
Works held: Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives; Calgary Public Library; Edmonton Art Gallery - Library; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Library and Archives; National Gallery of Canada - Library and Archives; University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library; University of Calgary Library; Vancouver Art Gallery - Library; Winnipeg Art Gallery - Clara Lander Library
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Writings about "Block Talk: News, views and issues in the city's northern neighbourhoods." Calgary Herald 2 Feb. 2006: N2; "Review-Shelton, Margaret, Block Prints 1936-1984 and Down Alberta Roads: Watercolours, Glenbow Museum." Calgary Herald 19 Feb. 1986: D11; Ainslie, Patricia. Margaret Shelton: Block Prints, 1936-1984. Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1984; Beauchamp, Elizabeth. "Printmaking book timely creation." Edmonton Journal 16 Sept. 1989: B10; Berenyl, Valerie. "A family room for a family man." Calgary Herald 6 Jul. 2003: D3; Laviolette, Mary-Beth. "Jewel of a show." Calgary Herald 11 Dec. 1999: G10; Masters Gallery. Margaret Shelton. Calgary: Masters Gallery Ltd, 1988; McGoogan, Ken. "National book token plan launched." Calgary Herald 31 Jan. 1989: B5; Robinson, Michael. "Getting to know the soul of our city." Calgary Herald 22 Mar. 2002: A21; Salmon, Peter. "The New Islander: March on Victoria." Times-Colonist (Victoria) 5 Jul. 1998: 1; Shell Canada Ltd. Shell Canada Collection: A Selection of Canadian Art Assembled by the Employees of Shell Canada Ltd. Calgary: Shell Canada Ltd, 1977; Tousley, Nancy. "Isolation Plagued Prolific Alberta Artist." Calgary Herald 19 Feb. 1986; Tousley, Nancy. "Local art auction brings in $134, 000." Calgary Herald 22 Nov. 1989: C4; Westbridge, Anthony R. The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction. Vancouver: Westbridge Publications, 2001.
Sources: Canadian Women Artists History Initiative; http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/nameSearch.php?artist=shelton
Condition is very good with strong color. There is no foxing. Print is not laid down. There is very light UV toning and old tape residue along outside margin perimeter.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915-1984)
Born: Bruce, Alberta, 1915
Died: Calgary, Alberta, 1984
With the Alberta landscape as her main subject matter, Margaret Shelton produced hundreds of pen-and-ink sketches, watercolours and prints. She began depicting her surroundings at a very young age, sketching both natural and industrial landscapes as she roamed the countryside near her family's farm. Despite her promising early attempts, Shelton did not become a full-time, professional artist until later in life, attending teacher's college at Normal School in Calgary (1933-34) and subsequently teaching periodically, and also working at an advertising agency in Toronto as a commercial artist for six months. During these years, she relegated her artistic pursuits to evenings and summers, taking classes at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art where she won scholarships to study drawing and painting from 1934-43. While there, she studied under A.C. Leighton, a celebrated English landscape painter, and H.G. Glyde. Shelton also studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts, graduating with a fine art diploma in 1938. In 1941, she learned Japanese woodblock printing techniques from W.J. Phillips and went on to become one of Canada's most prolific and significant print artists. Throughout her career she exhibited periodically with the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and the Calgary Sketch Club. Other significant exhibitions of her work have been held at the Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia (1981), and at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary (1985). Her works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Edmonton Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Shaw Cable and the Glenbow Museum.
Education: Provincial Institute of Art and Technology, Calgary, Alberta, 1933 - 1943 (under A.C. Leighton, H.G. Glyde); Private study, 1941 (under W.J. Phillips (woodblock printing); Banff School of Fine Arts, ? - 1938
Memberships: Calgary Sketch Club; Canadian Society of Graphic Art; Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers
Works held: Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives; Calgary Public Library; Edmonton Art Gallery - Library; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Library and Archives; National Gallery of Canada - Library and Archives; University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library; University of Calgary Library; Vancouver Art Gallery - Library; Winnipeg Art Gallery - Clara Lander Library
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Writings about "Block Talk: News, views and issues in the city's northern neighbourhoods." Calgary Herald 2 Feb. 2006: N2; "Review-Shelton, Margaret, Block Prints 1936-1984 and Down Alberta Roads: Watercolours, Glenbow Museum." Calgary Herald 19 Feb. 1986: D11; Ainslie, Patricia. Margaret Shelton: Block Prints, 1936-1984. Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1984; Beauchamp, Elizabeth. "Printmaking book timely creation." Edmonton Journal 16 Sept. 1989: B10; Berenyl, Valerie. "A family room for a family man." Calgary Herald 6 Jul. 2003: D3; Laviolette, Mary-Beth. "Jewel of a show." Calgary Herald 11 Dec. 1999: G10; Masters Gallery. Margaret Shelton. Calgary: Masters Gallery Ltd, 1988; McGoogan, Ken. "National book token plan launched." Calgary Herald 31 Jan. 1989: B5; Robinson, Michael. "Getting to know the soul of our city." Calgary Herald 22 Mar. 2002: A21; Salmon, Peter. "The New Islander: March on Victoria." Times-Colonist (Victoria) 5 Jul. 1998: 1; Shell Canada Ltd. Shell Canada Collection: A Selection of Canadian Art Assembled by the Employees of Shell Canada Ltd. Calgary: Shell Canada Ltd, 1977; Tousley, Nancy. "Isolation Plagued Prolific Alberta Artist." Calgary Herald 19 Feb. 1986; Tousley, Nancy. "Local art auction brings in $134, 000." Calgary Herald 22 Nov. 1989: C4; Westbridge, Anthony R. The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction. Vancouver: Westbridge Publications, 2001.
Sources: Canadian Women Artists History Initiative; http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/nameSearch.php?artist=shelton
