Thomas Sherlock Hodgson
(1924 - 2006) Painters Eleven
Previously Sold Works
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Non Objective (Bluish)
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
41.5 x 23.25 ins ( 105.4 x 59.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $60,000.00
Sale date: December 3rd 2020
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Two x Red + Yellow
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1987 lower left; unframed
65 x 90 ins ( 165.1 x 228.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $8,000.00 - $10,000.00
Price Realized $16,520.00
Sale date: May 29th 2018
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Abstraction
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1963 lower right
45.25 x 49 ins ( 114.9 x 124.5 cms )
Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $15,340.00
Sale date: May 28th 2019
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Study for Dark Then Mostly Light, 1956
mixed media on paper
signed lower right
7 x 14 ins ( 17.8 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $5,900.00
Sale date: November 19th 2019
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Watercolour #2
ink and watercolour on illustration board
signed and dated 1963 lower right
16.5 x 26 ins ( 41.9 x 66 cms )
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Untitled (1977)
oil and collage on canvas
signed and dated 1977 with plastic lettering
57.75 x 57.5 ins ( 146.7 x 146.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $5,520.00
Sale date: May 29th 2014
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Strawberry
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed and dated 1989 on the reverse
24 x 20 ins ( 61 x 50.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $4,720.00
Sale date: September 29th 2020
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Untitled Abstract
mixed media on board
signed lower right
12 x 19.25 ins ( 30.5 x 48.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $2,950.00
Sale date: June 5th 2019
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Untitled Abstraction
mixed media on paper
signed and dated 1989 lower right
21.75 x 29.75 ins ( 55.2 x 75.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $2,500.00
Price Realized $2,160.00
Sale date: June 1st 2021
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Untitled Abstract
oil on canvas
57 x 57 ins ( 144.8 x 144.8 cms ) ( overall, triangular )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $1,800.00
Sale date: January 23rd 2024
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Contraption
gouache on artist board
unframed
15.25 x 11.25 ins ( 38.7 x 28.6 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $840.00
Sale date: February 2nd 2021
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Nude Abstraction
mixed media on paper
signed and dated 1965 lower right
11.25 x 19 ins ( 28.6 x 48.3 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $700.00 - $900.00
Price Realized $748.00
Sale date: February 20th 2019
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Untitled Abstract Composition
watercolour
signed and dated 1989; unframed (matted)
12.25 x 16 ins ( 31.1 x 40.6 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $633.00
Sale date: March 14th 2018
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Two Figural Studies
charcoal on paper
“Man Sitting Sideways in Chair”, signed and dated “25/11/42” lower right (24 ins x 16.5 ins sight); “Seated Man”, signed and dated “20/1/43” lower right (22 ins x 14 ins sight)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: September 24th 2015
THOMAS SHERLOCK HODGSON
Couple Study
watercolour
signed and dated 1965 lower centre; unframed
22 x 15.25 ins ( 55.9 x 38.7 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $590.00
Sale date: February 21st 2018
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Tom Hodgson Biography
(1924 - 2006) Painters Eleven
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he studied in Toronto at the Central Technical School, 1939-42. During the Second World War he served with the R.C.A.F. overseas and on his return to civilian life resumed his studies in art at the Ontario College of Art where he graduated in 1946. He joined the staff of an advertising agency as assistant to the art director until he entered the field of commercial art. In 1956 he became a teacher for the Artists Workshop, Toronto. But while he was developing in his artistic career he was excelling in athletics and was on the Canadian Olympic paddling team (1952 and 1956).
Back in Toronto he joined with a group of artists which included Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Alexandra Luke, J.W.G. MacDonald, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, William Ronald, Harold Town, Walter Yarwood and Hortense Gordon who were interested in non-objective painting. This group decided to call themselves Painters Eleven and they brought non-objective painting too Ontario in a big way. Hodgson was particularly influenced by one of them, Oscar Cahén, who, like Hodgson was a commercial artist in search of freedom and adventure in painting. Perhaps more than anything it was Cahén’s colour juxtapositions which greatly influenced Hodgson. Solo exhibitions by Hodgson were held in 1954, 1956 and 1957 (at the Gallery of Contemporary Art).
In 1958 Hugo McPherson in his article on Toronto’s visor and new life in painting, noted Hodgson among the good painters of that city. In 1961 Hodgson with 23 other artists, was featured in an issue of Canadian Art magazine and noted by Robert Fulford as follows, “A Hodgson canvas seems to storm over us, filling our eyes with its swarm of apparently unrelated images. It is not until long after our first glimpse of the work that its organization and structure become apparent… We begin to see that the strange colours are not only the result of a rather eccentric colour sense but also are the result of space and light.”
His later exhibitions revealed his interest in pop art and the female figure (exhibited at Albert White Galleries, Toronto, 1965) and he continued to achieve greater success in his oils which were shown at Needham, Harper and Streets of Canada, Toronto, 1967. His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the University of British Columbia. He was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists (1954), Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (1954), Canadian Group of Painters (1956) and an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy (1962). He lived in Toronto.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979
