This is a selection from the Gallery collection of works that are for sale.
To view the complete list of works currently available please call the gallery.
"Boats at Brixham"
15x22, watercolour on paper
1951
"Three Peaks above Ice Shapes"
36x48, oil on canvas
2005
"Hoodoos in the Badlands"
36x48, oil on canvas
2003
"Green Splash"
24x30, oil on canvas
1969
"Untitled Landscape"
22x30, watercolour
1983
"The Bend in the Tracks, Spence's Bridge"
15x22, watercolour
1988
"Rock Hill at Okanogan Falls"
15x22, watercolour
1988
"The Golf Course, Osoyoos"
15x22, watercolour
1988
"Hopedale Labrador"
24x30, oil on canvas
1990
"Tuscany Big Sky"
36x48, oil on canvas
2000
"Untitled Icebergs"
36x48, oil on canvas
2005
"Muddy Road" - SOLD
12x16, oil on board
1972
Born July 7, 1910 in Calgary and raised in the
Beaches area of Toronto, Doris
McCarthy is recognized as one
of Canada’s foremost landscape painters.
Among her mentors and teachers at the Ontario
College of Art were members of the Group Of
Seven: Arthur Lismer, A.Y. Jackson, J.E.H. MacDonald
and Lawren Harris. Doris graduated with honours
in 1930 and began teaching at Toronto’s
Central Technical School in 1931, a position
she held for 40 years.
During
these years Doris also enjoyed many painting
adventures across Canada and abroad including
a 14-month sabbatical in Europe in 1950-51 during
which she painted full time. Doris also embarked
on a year-long solo world tour In 1961, which
she refers to as her ‘Long Year,’
with visits to Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand,
Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Afghanistan,
Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Italy,
Spain, France and England.
In
1972, the year of her retirement from teaching,
Doris made her first of many trips to the Canadian
Arctic. A deep love of the North is evident
in her ‘Iceberg Fantasies’ series,
considered to be among some of her best known
and celebrated works.
In 1977 Doris became reacquainted with former
art student turned film maker, Wendy Wacko of
Jasper. This marked the beginning of an on-going
friendship filled with many painting expeditions
together. In 1983, Wacko’s award-winning
documentary, ‘Doris McCarthy, Heart of
a Painter’ was released to wide acclaim.
Doris
has received many awards and distinctions including:
President, Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour,
1956; President, Ontario Society of Artists,
1964; Canadian Woman Artist of the Year Award,
1983; The Order of Canada, 1986; Bachelor of
Art in English, University of Toronto, 1989;
The Order of Ontario, 1992; the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit at the Centenary Health Centre Foundation,
Scarborough, Ontario named in her honour, 1998;
William Kilbourn Award in recognition of her
lifetime contribution to the arts in the City
of Toronto, 1999.
Doris
McCarthy’s extraordinary career embraces
more than 70 years of Canadian art history.
Her paintings and liturgical art are found in
selected galleries and museums including The
Gallery at Jasper Park Lodge, Alberta; Wynick/Tuck
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario and The McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.
To all those whose lives Doris has touched,
her endearing personal characteristics and love
of life fully compliment her incredible talent
to put brush to canvas.
“As
a traveling companion on painting expeditions,
Doris sets a grueling pace and looks forward
to each canvas or piece of paper with renewed
passion. Doris is a generous teacher and has
always been willing to share all she knows of
love, politics, religion, relationships and
painting.” Wendy Wacko, artist/film maker.
“ There is a level of animation to Doris,
both as a person and in her work that goes beyond
anything I have seen before... She doesn’t
paint for a living. She paints because she’s
alive!” Murray McLauchlan, folk guitarist/songwriter.
“ I know some of the parts of Canada that
Doris has painted and each time I have the pleasure
of basking in her work I go back to where I’ve
been and see things I’ve never seen before,
or things I thought I knew but now understand
differently.” Peter Gzowski, radio/television
host.
The Gallery at Jasper Park Lodge is extremely
proud to feature such a powerful body of work
by one of Canada’s most important living
landscape painters.
