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We are pleased to present the stunning Doris McCarthy painting Loon Lake and the three important collagraphs, Ice Floes at Pangnirtung, High Arctic and Iceberg Series 2.

Loon Lake, 1966, oil on canvas, 24 “x 30″

In the 1960s, having already been established as a respected painter and lover of the Canadian landscape for some time, McCarthy began experimenting with hard edge abstraction. She produced a series of seminal and beautiful paintings that played with form and movement, referencing land, water and sky – the elements of the landscape. For McCarthy it was a relatively small body of work with a big impact–a breakthrough that informed much of what was to come.

Loon Lake is central to this period and with its sweep of colour, shape and clarity, McCarthy brilliantly captured that iconic moment of a loon family gathering, perhaps readying for their fall migration.
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Following the important 60′s work McCarthy travelled to the Arctic for the first, and much awaited, time.

On her return, with the enthusiasm that can only come from the revelation and energy experienced during that trip combined with lessons learned over previous years, particularly from the previous decade of hard edge work, McCarthy made several collagraphic plates and a small edition of original prints.

In 2010, in her 100th year, and with McCarthy’s enthusiastic approval and guidance, along with that of the Doris McCarthy Gallery, U. of T., Scarborough (DMG), Open Studio Master Printer Jill Graham, worked on her behalf with the original collagraph plates, (recently donated to DMG), to produce a second small edition.

We have just received three of these beautiful prints and are very pleased to make them available for sale. As McCarthy wished, much of the proceeds will go to the acquisition fund of the DMG.*

Ice Floes at Pangnirtung,1973-2011, original hand coloured collagraph on paper, 22″ x 25″, Edition # VE IV/XXVII

Iceberg Series 2, 1973-2011, original hand coloured collagraph on paper, 20″ x 21″, Edition # VE IV/XX

High Arctic, 1973-2011, original hand coloured collagraph on paper, 20″ x 21″, edition # VE IV/XXIV

*Note: Each original print is hand inked and pressed and is distinctive. Each print is titled, dated and numbered as well as having three embossed marks; the official McCarthy signature stamp, the Open Studio stamp and Jill Graham’s personal master printer stamp. A full description of the edition is written in pencil by Graham on the back of each print.