Lot 112: Franklin Carmichael 1890 - 1945 Canadian oil on

Franklin Carmichael 1890 - 1945 Canadian oil on board Autumn Afternoon 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches 24.8 x 30.2 centimeters signed and dated 1922 and on verso signed inscribed ""Lansing, Ontario"" under the signature and titled in graphite Provenance:Art Institute of Ontario, 1952 A gift to Paul Bennett, Director of the Art Institute of Ontario in 1968 Joan Bennett, Ontario Private Collection, Ontario, circa 1970 Exhibited:Art Institute of Ontario, Group of Seven, 1952, catalogue #5 In 1915, Franklin Carmichael married his sweetheart Ada Went, and began working for Rous & Mann Ltd. as an illustrator. By 1920, the Carmichaels could afford to buy a home, and they purchased a small, newly built bungalow in the quaint village of Lansing. Lansing was near the forested Don River Valley, where the Carmichaels picnicked in the summer and skied in the winter. This tapestry of a sketch comes from 1922, when Carmichael had been living in Lansing and exhibiting with the Group of Seven for two years, and while he was venturing north with the Group on their sketching sojourns Autumn Afternoon is an energetic tapestry of fall colour, wherein greens, oranges, reds and yellows seem to crackle with the ripeness of fall. Carmichael's assured hand and quick sketching methods are supported by his abilities as an illustrator, his excellent sense of composition and his ability to organize pattern and form. According to the label on the back of this work, it was given to Paul Bennett, Director of the Art Institute of Ontario, upon the Institute's amalgamation with the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1968. The Art Institute of Ontario had been formed by the Education Department of the Province of Ontario in 1951 to circulate exhibitions, organize lectures and provide art instruction in the province. The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario), Hart House, the London Public Library and Art Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, the Ontario Association of Architects, the Ontario Society of Artists, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Willistead Library and Art Gallery, and the Windsor Art Association were all among its founding members. This fine panel was included in an exhibition organized by the Institute in 1952.