JOSH SILBURT

Titled verso "Autumn Sillhoutte #16", signed lower left middle, oil on masonite, 40.6 x 50.8cm (16 x 20in); Provenance: private collection, London; 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