Colorful abstract on board, prominently signed on front, and marked on back, 1942. From the same generation as the Group of Seven, Hortense Gordon broke away from the traditional style of her peers and became a trailblazer for modern abstract painting in Canada. Gordon painted landscape and still life compositions in her early years and transitioned into a non-representational style as a result of her travels to New York and Europe. Following her husband’s death in 1940, Gordon enrolled in German artist Hans Hofmann’s School of Art, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Hofmann’s teachings can be seen in Gordon’s work from this period as she began to refine the shapes, color and spatial composition of her paintings. Overall Size: 17 x 15 in.Sight Size: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.