Gordon Eastcott Payne (Gordon Payne)

Cyclamen

Gordon Eastcott Payne's "Cyclamen" is an original colour linocut created between 1930 and 1940. To create this striking work of art, Gordon Payne employed separate colour printings of green, red, pink and black. Due to the intricate ranges of tones and colouration it is likely that "Cyclamen" was printed in a very small edition. It represents a fine example of original art by the twentieth century Canadian artist, Gordon Eastcott Payne

Original Colour Linocut by the Canadian artist, Gordon Eastcott Payne 'Gordon Payne'.

Cyclamen

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Title:	Cyclamen
Artist:	Payne, Gordon Eastcott 'Gordon Payne' (Payne's Mills, Ontario, 1890 - Toronto, 1978)
Date:	c. 1930 - 1940
Medium:	Original Colour Linocut
Note:	Gordon Eastcott Payne 'Gordon Payne': As a young boy living in the area of Niagara Falls, Gordon Eastcott Payne first came in contact with art by watching his uncle, William St. Thomas Smith (1862-1947), at work at his easel. Formal studies began at the age of nineteen when Gordon Payne entered the Albright Art Gallery School, in Buffalo. Next he studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1910-1914), under George Reid, William Cruikshank and Robert Holmes. Upon graduation World War One broke out and Gordon Payne spent the next four years as a signals officer in the Canadian military. Gordon Eastcott Payne completed his artistic education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in 1920.
	As an artist, Gordon Payne became known throughout Canada for his landscape and still life paintings and watercolours. As a graphic artist, Payne displayed the same qualities of serenity and lyricism in his original linocuts and etchings. He was a full member of the Art League of Toronto (1919), the Graphic Arts Society (1921), the Ontario Society of Artists (1925) and the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers (1946).
	Gordon Payne was an influential teacher. He was a regular instructor at the Doon School of Fine Arts (1946-1950) and he operated Toronto's largest private school of art, the Payne School of Fine Art, from 1946 to 1958. Today the art of Gordon Eastcott Payne is included in the permanent collections of The Art Gallery of Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Edition:	Gordon Payne did not number "Cyclamen" in a specific edition. Judging from the complex, multiple colour printings, however, it would be a surprise if more than ten impressions were made.
Size:	8 1/2 X 7 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon fine, archival mulberry (rice) paper and with full margins as created by the artist around the above date. Signed and titled by Payne in pencil under the image. A beautiful, full-colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. "Cyclamen" represents a prime, original example of the Canadian art of Gordon Eastcott Payne.
Subject:	Gordon Eastcott Payne, Gordon Payne, "Cyclamen", original colour linocut, William St. Thomas Smith, Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Payne School of Fine Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, still life, Canadian art.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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