CLARE BICE

"Untitled: Autumn Scene", signed lower right, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2cm (20 x 30in) - Clare Bice, Canadian, 1909-1976, born in Durham, Ontario, studied at the University of Western Ontario, New York Art Student's League and Grand Central School of Art, New York; exhibited across North America including the New York World's Fair, 1939; Bice was quoted as saying "My own painting is clearly representational, which is a limitation of sorts perhaps, though my intention is to comment on nature, to distill it, not merely record it"; this is a large scale and important work by the artist