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William Henry Clapp 1879 - 1954 Canadian oil on board Berthier, PQ A07F-E05269-003 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches 26 x 34.3 centimeters signed and dated 1913 and on verso titled and dated Literature:Joan Murray, Impressionism in Canada 1895 - 1935, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1973, page 64, reproduced page 71 Provenance:Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal By descent to the present Private Collection, Montreal Exhibited:Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Impressionism in Canada 1895 - 1935, 1973, traveling to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Saskatoon Gallery and Conservatory, Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, catalogue #56 After returning to Montreal from Europe in 1907, Clapp gained admiration amongst his colleagues and was invited to exhibit his works in key national exhibitions. Between 1907 and 1918 he regularly exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy. He had works displayed in the Art Association of Montreal's spring annuals from 1908 to 1914, as well as in the Canadian Art Club exhibitions from 1912 to 1915. This fine painting was exhibited in 1973 in Joan Murray's groundbreaking exhibition Impressionism in Canada at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In the exhibition catalogue Murray comments that in Berthier, PQ, Clapp brilliantly demonstrates the loose painterly technique of what was modernist Impressionism. E20000-30000