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"Edwin Headley Holgate 1892 - 1977 Canadian oil on panel Near Mount Gabriel, PQ" 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches 21.6 x 26.7 centimeters initialed and on verso signed, titled and dated 1966 Literature:Rosalind Pepall and Brian Foss, Edwin Holgate, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005, essay by Brian Foss, page 52 Provenance:Kaspar Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Montreal In 1943, Edwin Holgate and his wife returned from Europe where he had served as an official war artist, and settled at Morin Heights in the Laurentian Mountains. Holgate found the area favourable to his creative objectives, and the couple remained there until their return to Montreal almost 30 years later. Although prior to the war Holgate had been celebrated for his portraits and nudes, he also had a keen interest in his landscape painting, and this relative seclusion afforded him the opportunity to return to nature. Near Mount Gabriel, PQ is a superb example of the body of work created during his extensive study of the Quebec countryside. The undisturbed hillside whispers of the passing days of summer, with hints of crimson traversing the rolling slopes and a golden tree anchoring the foreground. Brian Foss remarks, "Holgate's sense of a vital, living landscape - expressed through an evolving visual language - continued to enlarge his intense and long-standing relationship with the world around him." "