The Canmore Mountain Range

Catalogue entry

N06012 THE CANMORE MOUNTAIN RANGE 1950
 
Inscr. ‘Edward Bawden 1950’ b.r.
Pen and gouache, 22 1/4×28 1/4 (57×72).
Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1951.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, May 1951 (22).
Repr: V. & A., Twentieth Century British Water-colours, 1958, pl.35.

The artist spent some months in Canada teaching during the summers of 1949 and 1950. This watercolour was painted in an old Ukrainian cemetery in the small mining town of Canmore, about fourteen miles from Banff.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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