Robert Wakeham PilotSunny Winter Morning - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Robert Wakeham Pilot, 1916
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Sunny Winter Morning - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Robert Wakeham Pilot
By Robert Wakeham Pilot
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on panel landscape by Canadian impressionist painter Robert Wakeham Pilot. The piece depicts a view of rural landscape in Quebec, Canada in winter. The bare trees and the ground are covered in blanket of white snow. Blue sky breaks through the cloud above. The spire of the church from a nearby village can be seen on the horizon. This work pairs with another recorded 5 x 7 inch example painted in 1916 by Pilot that was painted near the Hotel Dieu in Quebec City - the work was likely painted in February of that year just before Pilot enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force to serve on the front lines in France. Signature: Signed and dated 1916 lower right Dimensions: Framed: 15.5"x17" Unframed: 5.5"x7" Provenance: The Dominion Gallery - Montreal, Canada (stock number B2594) The Isaacs Gallery - Toronto, Canada Robert Wakeham Pilot DCL MBE RCA (9 October 1898 – 17 December 1967) was a Canadian artist, who worked mainly in oil on canvas or on panel, and as an etcher and muralist. He is known for his ability to capture the tone and atmosphere, especially at twilight, of the landscape of Quebec. Pilot is the last of the Canadian painters considered "to lend authority to Canadian Impressionism". Pilot was born at St. John's, Newfoundland, to Edward Frederick Pilot and his wife Barbara (née Merchant). In 1910, his widowed mother married the artist, Maurice Cullen...
1910s Impressionist Robert Wakeham Pilot Art
Oil, Panel
