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Image source: Vancouver Art Gallery Library: Canadian Artist Files

Arthur Lismer

Nationality: Canadian

Training: Sheffield School of Art; Academie Royal des Be aux-Arts, Antwerp.

Peers: John Constable; J.E.H. MacDonald; Tom Thomson; Franklin Carmichael; Frank Johnston; Fred Varley; A.Y. Jackson; Lawren Harris

Group: Canadian War Memorials; Group of Seven; Canadian Group of Painters; 20th century

Provenance: donated by H. Mortimer Lamb in 1941; the artist

Subject: landscape; land based nationalism; Georgian Bay




Other Works in the Vancouver Art Gallery Collection

Arthur Lismer
Skunk Cabbage, 1953
oil on board
Vancouver Art Gallery Women's Auxiliary Provincial School Scheme
VAG 70.42

Arthur Lismer
Stream in the Forest, 1960
oil on canvas board
Vancouver Art Gallery Women's Auxiliary Provincial School Scheme
VAG 70.43

Arthur Lismer
Long Beach, B.C.
conte and stump on wove paper
Gift of Marjorie Lismer Bridges
VAG 88.37.1

Arthur Lismer
Long Beach
felt tip pen on wove paper
Gift of Marjorie Lismer Bridges
VAG 88.37.2

Arthur Lismer
Skunk Cabbage
ink on wove paper
Gift of Marjorie Lismer Bridges
VAG 88.37.3

Arthur Lismer
Georgian Bay, 1935
oil on wood panel
Gift of J. Melvin Scott
VAG 88.40.1

Arthur Lismer
Landscape, Vancouver Island, 1966
ink wash on wove paper
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C. Reif
VAG 88.41.12

Arthur Lismer
Vancouver Island, B.C.
oil on canvas
Gift of Garth & Lynette Thurber
VAG 92.59

Arthur Lismer
Charity is a Crime
carbon pencil on paper
Gift of Laing and Kathleen Brown
VAG 92.64

Arthur Lismer
Landscape
ink on paper
Gift of Gordon and Marion Smith
VAG 94.21

Arthur Lismer
Pine Silhouettes, Georgian Bay
oil on panel
Gift of Dr. Abraham and Mrs. Naomi Greenberg
VAG 95.45.3

Arthur Lismer
Cow Parsley, Wickaninnish Beach, West Coast of Vancouver Island, 1958
oil on wood panel
Gift of Margaret Knox
VAG 96.20

Arthur Lismer
September Gale
oil on wood panel
The Parnell Bequest
VAG 2000.39.4

Arthur Lismer
McGregor Bay
oil on masonite
The Parnell Bequest
VAG 2000.39.5

Arthur Lismer
In the Forest, B.C.
oil on panel
Gift of Robert George Curtis in memory of his mother Doris G. Curtis
VAG 2001.34.2