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ROY AUSTIN
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Titled verso "Pilkington East", signed lower right and verso, oil on canvas board, 61 x 76.2cm (24 x 30in); Provenance: London Regional Art Gallery Art Rental Service, gallery price $2400.00; Roy Austin, Canadian, 1910-1997; born in England and moving to Canada at one year of age, Austin's family settled in Orangeville, Ontario; in 1930, he enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, studying under prominent artist's of the day including J.W. Beatty, J.E.H. Macdonald, Frank Carmichael and Yvonne McKague Housser; Austin graduated in 1934 and was accepted into annual exhibitions with the OSA and RCA