Clandeboy Reprise by Harold Barling Town

Harold Town
Clandeboy Reprise
oil and lucite on board
signed and dated 1959 upper centre; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
30 x 30 ins ( 76.2 x 76.2 cms )
Sold for $13,800.00
Sale date: November 23rd 2017
Moore Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, New Brunswick
Gerta Moray, Harold Town: Life and Work (online publication), Art Canada Institute, Toronto 2013, pages 17-33
Iris Nowell, Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, Toronto, 2010, pages 159-71
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Harold Barling Town
(1924 - 1990) Painters Eleven, OSA, RCA
Born in 1924, Harold Town lived most of his life in Toronto. He studied at both Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art and, upon graduating in 1945, became an accomplished illustrator for advertising agencies and magazines such as Macleans and Mayfair. Town was a founder and member of the Painters Eleven, a group of Toronto abstract artists that exhibited together during the 1950s.