Isabel McLaughlin
(1903 - 2002) Canadian Group of Painters
Previously Sold Works
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Feathers and Shell
charcoal on paper
signed lower right; titled and dated 1954 on a label on the reverse
18.75 x 23.5 ins ( 47.6 x 59.7 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $518.00
Sale date: September 20th 2017
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Untitled (Tree of Life)
ink on paper
signed and dated 1958 lower right
9 x 11 ins ( 22.9 x 27.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $295.00
Sale date: July 14th 2020
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Still Life
graphite
signed lower right
18 x 23 ins ( 45.7 x 58.4 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $300.00
Sale date: August 15th 2023
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Port at Night
ink and coloured pencil
signed and dated 1957 lower left
6 x 5.5 ins ( 15.2 x 14 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $192.00
Sale date: March 21st 2023
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Into the Now
linocut
signed and numbered 11/100 in the lower margin; a certificate of authenticity from The Robert McLaughlin Gallery accompanies this work noting that the plate for this work was completed in 1930 and then printed in 1998
5 x 7 ins ( 12.7 x 17.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $200.00 - $300.00
Price Realized $150.00
Sale date: December 14th 2021
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN
Floral Arrangement
colour silkscreen christmas card
signed lower right
6.75 x 8 ins ( 17.1 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $90.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
Isabel McLaughlin Biography
(1903 - 2002) Canadian Group of Painters
Born in Oshawa, Ontario, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. R.S. McLaughlin, she studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto; the Art Students’ League, New York; the Scandinavian Academy, Paris, and in Mexico. She held her first solo show at the Art Gallery of Toronto in the winter of 1933, when the Toronto Globe notes, “Miss McLaughlin has become interested in a section of Canada, unexplored by artists, namely, Northern Ontario mining settlements. Kirkland Lake and Cobalt are represented in the group of paintings which also includes the Ottawa, Quebec, Muskoka, and Southern Ontario landscapes in the neighborhood of her home at Oshawa and in Toronto. City streets, which have held tenaciously to a few colorful cottages of an earlier day, standing wedged between newer structures have gained the interest of this young artist…. The work exhibits a fine sense of design – a quality well expressed in the still-life drawings and plant studies. A series of watercolors, named “Here and There in Toronto,” reveals the fact that the artist likes to place on canvas those familiar and unnoticed pictures that we meet and should see every day from windows or a street corner.”
Subsequently, she exhibited at Scott & Sons, Montreal jointly with Sarah Robertson, and Prudence Heward (1934); at Malloney Galleries, Toronto, with Rody Kenny Courtice, Kathleen Daly, Yvonne McKague and Paraskeva Clark (1936); Picture Loan Society, Toronto (1937). In 1933, she became a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and exhibited often with this society. In her earlier work, she was influenced by the Group of Seven but then she moved toward a more simplified modern approach. Even in the 1960’s, she was still very much interested in landscapes. She lived and died in Toronto. Represented in the collections of: National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s Univ., Kingston; The McMichael Conservation Collection, Kleinburg, Ont., and elsewhere.
Literature Source:
"A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume 4: Little - Myles", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1978
