Gift from the Artist (ca. 1927-28)

By descent in the family

Private Collection, Toronto

Arthur Lismer emigrated from England to🙈 Canada as a young man and fell in love with the Canadian landscape, which he depicted with a unique intensity and radiance.  Lismer worked directly from nature and was a master of colour, design and theme, emphasizing composition and emphatic brushwork. 

Shaken by the revelation of the beautiful landscape of the Norꦐth, Lismer once🥂 wrote:

The North has an atmosphere and a glamour all its own.  I have never experienced anything like it anywhere else – it is a peculiarity of this North country... That first impression was greater than imagination, charged with a meaning and growth to an impressionable soul, a quickening of feeling, the birth of new impulses and outlooks and an intense desire to express it.

That he did, and in his own inimitable manner.