YVONNE MCKAGUE HOUSSER

Titled verso "The Little Clearing", signed lower left and dated 1941, also signed verso, oil on board, 30.5 x 40.6cm (12 x 16in); old handwritten label by the artist verso signed and inscribed "Near Haliburton and Bancroft"; Provenance: Leon Katz Collection, No. 133, acquired from the R. Cleverlay Gallery; present private Ontario collection; Note: the 24 x 32 inch oil on canvas titled "The Little Clearing, Georgian Bay" is part of the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Yvonne McKague Housser, 1897-1996, a well-known 20th century Canadian artist and educator who first exhibited her work with the Royal Canadian Academy in 1923; she was an instructor at OCAD (then called the Ontario College of Art), and was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933 after the Group of Seven disbanded; Housser exhibited with the Group of Seven prior in 1928, 1930 and 1931; this is a spectacular oil on board with vibrant colours throughout, a fence in the foreground overlooking rolling hills, a farmhouse and buildings in early autumn near Haliburton and Bancroft, Ontario, just north of the Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park