Lot 31
JOSEPH DYNES
Provenance:
Paul Duval, Toronto.
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary.
Literature:
William C. Forsey, The Ontario Community Collects: a survey of Canadian painting from 1766 to the present, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1975, 72.
Note:
Forsey writes that Dynes was typical of the many journeymen artists who worked in Canada throughout the nineteenth century and concludes that many of his paintings “possess a naive charm which appeals strongly to present day taste.”