Stanley Cosgrove

Nature morte

Armand Tatossian, Canadian, 1948-2012 First snow Oil on canvas 20 x 24 in Signed on the lower right: A. Tatossian Signed and titled on the reverse PROVENAN...

Molly Lamb Bobak, Canadian, 1920 – 2014 Poppies Watercolour 17 x 24 in signed PROVENANCE: Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal framed Molly Bobak Biography...

Robert Genn, 1936-2014, Canadian On the Fraser Oil on board 8 x 10 in 20 x 25 cm signed and titled verso;

Molly Lamb Bobak, Canadian, 1920 – 2014 Flowers of the Field Watercolour 22 x 15 in signed framed Molly Bobak Biography (1922 - 2014) RCA It could be said that Molly Lamb Bobak was destined to be an artist. She was born on Lulu Island, near Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 25, 1920. She grew up in a bohemian enclave. Her father, Harold Mortimer Lamb, was a photographer and art critic. In 1926, her father opened a commercial art gallery in Vancouver, exhibiting painters, sculptors, and photographers. In 1938, Bobak attended art school at the Vancouver School of Art and studied under Jack Shadbolt, where she learned to improve her drawing and composition skills. While working at the Yellow Point Lodge during the summer of 1940, Lamb kept a diary filled with text and caricatures and drew everyone that she encountered. Bobak joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in 1942. While serving, she found endless material to paint and included these paintings in her personal journal, which was later published and titled “W110278: The Personal War Records of Private Lamb, M”, which included 147 folios and fifty single sheet sketches. After being stationed in Alberta and Quebec, the military recognized her artistic abilities and invited her to attend a drafting course in Toronto. After finishing the course, Lamb tried to become an official war artist. In 1942, Lamb was sent to Ottawa where she drew at the Trades Training offices where she designed posters and Christmas cards. Three of Bobak’s drawings were purchased by the Art Gallery of Ontario in the same year. In 1944, “Meal Parade, Hamilton Trades School” (n.d) tied for second prize at the National Gallery’s Canadian Army Art Show, which helped her receive the appointment as a war artist––the only woman who earned this designation. As women were not allowed on the active war front, Bobak was transferred to London, England, six weeks after Victory Day to document the aftermath of the war. After leaving the military, Bobak settled with her husband Bruno, in Vancouver. After the move, Bobak had little time to paint as she was teaching night courses at the Vancouver School of Art and tending to her children. After earning a French scholarship in 1950, Bobak, her husband, and their two children traveled to Paris where she experienced the works of modernist painters like Cézanne and Matisse. Cézanne’s work in particular influenced Bobak’s art, which can be seen in the geometric organization of “A Bakership, Saint-Léonard” (1951) and “The Saint Ives Train...

Robert Genn, 1936-2014, Canadian The fog Oil on board 8 x 10 in signed Framed

Robert Genn, 1936-2014, Canadian Vernon, BC, 1970 Oil on board 8 x 10 in 20 x 25 cm signed and titled verso;

Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...

Darius Yektai's "White Tulips" is a large-scale, layered, oil on resin, on canvas painting. White Tulips is archetypal in all but scale. Yektai’s stateme...

This abstract piece, "Three Horsemen", by artist Trip Park is a 36x36 oil painting on canvas featuring three jockey helmets strung up to hang. Park's signature pink underpainting can...

A Canadian flag flies from the top of a pole that swoops into the center of a taffy pink sky in this unique painting by artistic polymath Charles Pachter. In this painting, the arti...

Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: White Irises Year: circa 1989 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 72 x 80 inches

Artist Commentary: Sea Foam Party Pt I & II are a 2 piece series of Shelbi Nicole's interpretation of a beautiful coral reef, but of course with her sign...