JOSH SILBURT

"Untitled: Winter Landscape with Birch Trees", signed lower left, oil on board, 30.5 x 40.6cm (12 x 16in) - Josh Jack Silburt, Canadian, 1914-1991; born in Plum Coulee, Manitoba and studied at the Winnipeg School of Art under the direction of L.L. Fitzgerald; together with a small group of landscape painters he met while at the Willowdale Art Group in Toronto, he painted the Canadian landscape in a more modernised style from earlier artists of the day, including the Group of Seven