Description: A handsome Canadian Depression era painting by Jack Harold Markell (1919 -1979). An uncommon early work from his Prairie period, it is an oil on board depicting a crowd of people, some mounted on horses, in a prairie landscape. The composition brings Jon Corbino's famous lithograph "Escaped Bull" to mind. The work is signed in the lower right and measures 15 1/2 x 22 inches, it is 19 x 25 1/2 inches including the frame. It is nicely framed in a period Art Deco modern style metal leaf frame, most likely original. It is fairly bright, but a cleaning would make it glow, small touch of to 1/4 chip on right center edge, otherwise the painting is in excellent original condition. Jack Harold Markell (1919 -1979) Canadian painter born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He studied at the Western Art Academy (Winnipeg) under Alexander Musgrove and at the Art Students League in New York under Jon Corbino whose influence is evident in much of Markell's figurative work. Markell was a member of the Winnipeg Sketch Club and exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1953 - 56) and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1947 - 1958). His work was shown in the 1962 Stratford Festival of Art exhibition titled "Nine Prairie Province Painters" which also included Maxwell Bates, Kenneth Lochhead, Ron Bloore and Ted Godwin. His masterwork, King David, was in the first Biennial of Canadian Painting (1955) at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), and was subsequently purchased by the National Gallery. Markell has work in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the University of British Columbia. He is listed in A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (1974); in The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction (2001); in Art and Architecture in Canada (1991); and in The National Gallery of Canada Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture - Vol III: Canadian School (1960). His work is also discussed in Painting in Canada: A History (1966) and in Clement Greenberg:The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4.
Price: 650 USD
Location: Brooksville, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-21T01:38:17.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Artist: Jack Markell
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Signed: Yes
Color: Multi-Color
Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)
Framing: Framed
Region of Origin: North America
Subject: Horses, Landscape
Type: Painting
Year of Production: c1940s
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Style: Modernism, Regionalism
Features: Signed, One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
