Attributed to Bertram Charles Binning, it does not have a COA. Medium: oil canvas. No title. Frame: 33 x 33 inches, painting: 30 x 30 inches. Provenance: private owner from Canada.
Biography: 1909 - 1976. Bertram Charles Binning (AKA: B.C. Binning) was a draughtsman, painter, graphic artist, muralist, architectural decorator, printmaker and influential educator who was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. In 1913 his family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, which is where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He died in West Vancouver, which is where his home was for the last 35 years of his life. (1) His mediums were pen and ink, graphite, coloured pencil, gouache, oil (2), acrylic, silkscreen, mosaic tiles and mixed mediums. His subjects were boats, the sea, nautical elements and coastal scenes. He also did pure abstraction and semi abstraction. His ultimate subjects were spatial ideas, texture, colour, line and pattern (formalism). His styles were precisionism, geometric abstraction and decorative semi abstraction. Most of his work is identified by clean lines, flat planes, geometric shapes, controlled balance, a rich sense of colour, a humanization of the object and whimsy. There is a cubist influence evident and a resemblance in spirit to the works of Miro and Klee. Quote: "Canadian art need not be only grim, rugged and forbidding". In 1927 he enrolled in the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (3), and studied under Charles H. Scott, Frederick Varley and Jock MacDonald (see all in AskART). He graduated in 1932. In the late 1930's he also studied at the University of Oregon (1936) under Eugen Steinhof (see AskART), the Art Students League (NYC) under Yasuo Kuniyoshi (see AskART), at the Central School of Art (London, England) under Bernard Meninsky (see AskART) and at the Westminster School of Art (London, England) under Mark Gertler (see AskART). He also studied under Henry Moore (see AskART) in England and Amedee Ozenfant (see AskART) in New York.

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