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HEFFEL FINE ART AUCTION HOUSE 39
122 RANDOLPH STANLEY HEWTON
BHG CGP RCA 1888 ~ 1960
Looking Towards Murray Bay, PQ
oil on canvas, signed and on verso
signed, titled and dated indistinctly
12 x 14 in, 30.5 x 35.6 cm
PROVENANCE:
Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
LITERATURE:
Victoria Baker, Modern Colours: The Art of Randolph Stanley Hewton,
1888 ~ 1960, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2002, page 17
Randolph Hewton trained in France along with Group of Seven artist
A.Y. Jackson. When they returned to Montreal in 1913 and had their
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first exhibition, Jackson wrote, “While we were not very radical we were
exponents of French Art which was not popular at that time in Montreal.”
Although they may not have been wild radicals, they were decidedly on
the side of the modernists. Hewton became one of the members of the
Beaver Hall Group in Montreal and was considered to be a formative
influence in the lives of Beaver Hall women artists Prudence Heward,
Sarah Robertson and Nora Collyer. He traveled on sketching trips with
Jackson in the Quebec countryside, and was invited to show in the first
Group of Seven exhibition in 1920. As well as painting landscapes,
Hewton was one of the few Canadian painters of the time to paint nudes.
His landscapes had a strength of composition, freshness of colour and
simplicity of form, all manifest in Looking Towards Murray Bay, PQ, with
its sun~drenched fields and euphoric view of the sea under a glorious sky.
ESTIMATE: $10,000 ~ 12,000