John Scott Titled: No Freedom, circa 1995 Medium: mixed media on paper mounted to foam-core Size: 73 ½” x 58 ½” (73.7 x 55.9cm) Signed (lower left) also signed and titled verso
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John Scott Titled: 100 workers, 1988 Medium: Photo-serigraph, cadmium red oil paint on board, double sided Size: 34-1/8″ x 32-1/8″ (86.5 x 81.5cm) Signed and dated 1997 (IV-VIII)
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John Scott Titled: 100 workers, 1988 Medium: Photo-serigraph, cadmium red oil paint on board, double sided Size: 34-1/8″ x 32-1/8″ (86.5 x 81.5cm) Signed and dated 1997 (I-VIII)
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John Scott Titled: Deep Space, Negative Star, 2001 Medium: Mixed media on paper Size: 24” x 18” (61.0 x 45.7cm) Signed and dated verso
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John Scott Titled: Regina (Queen), 2007/2021 Medium: Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas Size: 50” x 38” (127.0 x 96.5cm) Signed and dated (lower right), signed and dated verso
Note: This work along with “One Shot World” (below) was mounted to canvas by John Scott in 2021.
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John Scott SOLD Titled: One Shot World, 2007/2021 Medium: Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas Size: 50” x 38” (127.0 x 96.5cm) Signed and dated (lower right), signed and dated verso
Cesare-Augusto Detti Titled: The Herald, circa 1885 Medium: Oil on board Size: 15 3/4 ” x 11” (40.0 x 27.9cm) Signed (lower right), titled on a label on the reverse
Allen Sapp Titled: Five Men Singing and Drumming, 2003 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20″ x 24″ (50.8 x 61.0 cm) Signed (lower right), signed and titled verso on stretcher Stamped Allen Sapp, 605139, Sask., June 2003 verso on stretcher
Allan Sapp Titled: Playing Hockey, circa 2000 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 24″ x 36″ (61.0 x 91.4 cm) Signed (lower right), signed on stretcher verso
Allen Sapp Titled: People Coming out of Church, circa 2000 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 16″ x 20″ (40.6 x 50.8 cm) Signed (lower right), titled on verso and inscribed on stretcher “DE1537”
Literature: I Heard the Drums, Allen Sapp, 1996, Stoddard Publishing Co. Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. Page 12 – “When I started to paint life as I remembered it on the reserve, I didn’t need any pictures to remind me. It was as if my mind was a camera and would place before me pictures of places and events of many years ago while growing up on the Red Pheasant Reserve.” Page 46 – “I have painted the Anglican Church on the Red Pheasant Reserve the way I remember it. It is no longer there.”
Doris Jean McCarthy Titled: Cumshewa Woods with Naturalists, 1994 (Cumshewa, British Columbia) Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 36″x 48″ (91.4 x 121.9cm) Signed (lower right), on verso titled and dated 940317 (1994 March 17) (U.S. Customs and Border Protection Seal on lower frame)
Exhibited: 1997 – Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americans – U.S.A. Tour: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York.
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Robert Markle Titled: This Fire Was Sent By Paris, 1980. Medium: Coloured ink and acrylic on paper. Size: 26” x 40” (66.0 x 101.6cm). Signed and dated 80 (upper right)
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Robert Markle Titled: An Unfinished Night, 1980 Medium: Acrylic and pastel on paper Size: 26” x 40” (66.0 x 101.6cm) Signed and dated 80 (lower right) (03037/2013-3085)
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Robert Markle Titled: The Body is a Garden of Signs, 1987 Medium: Acrylic and canvas Size: 52” x 84” (132.1 x 213.4cm) Signed and dated (upper right), signed, dated and titled verso
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Robert Markle Titled: Drawing for Four Legs Moving, 1965 Medium: Charcoal on paper Size: 34.5” x 23.5” (87.6 x 59.7cm) Signed and dated 65 (lower left)
John Gould Titled: The Matador, 1957 Medium: Tempera on masonite Size: 20” x 24” (50.8 x 61.0cm) Signed, dated (lower right), titled to old receipt verso
Attila Richard Lukacs Titled: Boy with Green Arms, 1999 Medium: 18 colour silkscreen with hand painted additions of varnish, oil paint, and tar on 4 ply museum board Size: 76″x 60″ (193.1 x 152.4cm) Signed, dated and numbered H.C. 7/8 (lower left)
William Ronald Titled: Jasmine, 1997 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 48″x 36″ (121.9 x 91.4cm) Signed and dated (lower right), on verso titled, signed, dated and inscribed “first painting executed at 21 Dunlop St. Barrie”
William Ronald was born in Stratford, Ontario in 1926. From the age of twelve Ronald wanted to become a painter. His younger brother, John Meredith Smith, had ambitions too of becoming a painter. He enrolled in the Ontario College of Art. One teacher, J.W.G. (Jock) MacDonald, who had done his first abstract painting in 1933, saw in Ronald a creative talent. During early exhibitions he encountered other abstract artists Ray Mead and Tom Hodgson. Toronto had fewer galleries then, and fewer places willing to show abstract work. This situation prompted Ronald to make suggestions to his bosses in Simpson’s display department, to show abstract paintings with furniture to enhance the display. He contacted those artists he knew – Oscar Cahén, Jack Bush, Alexandra Luke, Kazuo Nakamura, Ray Mead and Tom Hodgson. Following the show the seven artists realized that better opportunities lay in store for them if they exhibited together. Since they didn’t want to be referred to as another Group of Seven, they decided to form a larger group. Ronald invited his old teacher Jock Macdonald, Cahén invited both Harold Town and Walter Yarwood, Mead asked Hortense Gordon and they finally numbered eleven to form Painters Eleven. In February of 1954 they held their first group show at Roberts Gallery, Jack Bush’s dealer. The largest crowd in the history of the gallery showed up at the opening.
Ronald moved to New York in 1955. As he became known in New York art circles he was able to arrange an invitation for Painters Eleven to show with American Abstract Artists in their annual exhibition in 1956 at the Riverdale Museum. In April of 1957 he held his first solo show there and signed a contract with Kootz Gallery, NYC. For the next six years he exhibited with Kootz. A change in vogue to Pop Art, which Ronald could not relate to, left him with too small an audience to continue making a decent living. He had his last show at Kootz Gallery in December, 1963.
William Ronald (left) with Prime Minister Pierre-Elliot Trudeau
In 1966 Ronald was offered a programme on the arts, by CBC television producer, John Kennedy. He accepted and became host of “The Umbrella” run on Sunday afternoons. The programme which had its share of controversey lasted two seasons and had a viewing audience of 1.2 million. Afterwards Ronald turned to painting once more. Some of his flowing lineal murals were attracting attention. In 1967 Fred Lebensold, architect for the National Art Centre in Ottawa, was looking for an artist who could tackle a large scale colourful mural. He thought of Ronald. Unannounced he dropped into Ronald’s Toronto studio to invite him to submit a proposal for a mural. Ronald came up with one of his flowing lineal compositions measuring 44 x 60 feet (later entitled “Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy” chosen by Ronald to honour R.F.K. in the way a writer dedicates a book to a friend). The three-story mural is influenced by both landscape and music. The mural is widely admired by public and planners alike because of the difficult area the artist had to work with. While continuing with his painting career Ronald returned to broadcasting and hosted “Theme & Variations” in-depth interviews and music, CBC (1968); “As It Happens” six hours straight, interviews with people making the news, CBC (1969-72); “Free For All”, public access programme, CITY-TV, (1972-74, 1977). In 1975 Joan Murray, director of the McLaughlin Gallery and Kathryn Reid Woods organized the exhibition “Ronald: 25 years”. The show toured eight galleries across Canada.
His “prime ministers” project, planned over several years, is his version of portraits of 16 of Canada’s prime ministers. Each of the portraits differs in size and technique, to suit the personality and reputation of the subject politician. The portraits were first shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, May 1, 1984, officially opened by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau the exhibition then went on tour across Canada. During his career Ronald has done hundreds of paintings. He is represented in over seventy public collections and museums. Ronald passed away February 9, 1998 in Barrie, Ontario.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Ronald is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, New York; the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Whitney Museum, New York; to name a few.
The record price for this artist at auction is $163,800.00 for Drumbeat, sold at Heffel in 2008.
