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30 X 30 - CANVAS & 39 X 39 - FRAMED
This monumental signed Joseph Plaskett oil on canvas comes fresh to the market for the first time since it was painted in 1967. This large oil painting has great significance as it’s a scene from Joseph’s home town of New Westminster, BC. Beautifully executed with the snow gracefully falling, brings a calm, cosy & pleasing effect when viewing the painting.
It was acquired directly from Plaskett when painted and has been in the same single owner’s, private collection since. Opportunities to buy large oil paintings by Joseph Plaskett are few and far between. This painting comes to market with no reserve and will sell to the highest bidder, beautifully framed & ready to be enjoyed. Don’t miss this opportunity. Bidding closes this Sunday night. Be sure to get your bids in now!
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Joseph’s work stands for itself, gracing the walls of many museums throughout this country, including the National Gallery in Ottawa & the Beaverbrook Art Gallery here in New Brunswick. His works have been sold at the finest art galleries from British Columbia to Prince Edward Island.
Joseph Plaskett won the first Emily Carr Scholarship in 1946. The award changed his life, enabling him to study, first at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and then with Hans Hofmann in New York. He, then, was recommended by Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson to be the Director of the Winnipeg School of Art, where he taught for two years. His passing at the age of 96 in 2014 was a tragic lose to the Canadian art community but he has left behind a legacy & the Joseph Plaskett scholarship, available to young Canadian artists.
ARTIST: Joseph "Joe" Plaskett CM RCA (12 July 1918 – 21 September 2014) was a Canadian painter. He studied with many prominent Canadian painters such as A.Y. Jackson, Jack Shadbolt, Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald. Plaskett was a pupil of Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown in 1947[1] and 1948.
Plaskett was born in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1918.[1] In 1950, he arrived in Paris where he studied with Fernand Léger, and Jean Lombard, etching and engraving with Stanley William Hayter. He taught intermittently in Canada until 1957. He then settled in Paris where his studio became an informal salon for Canadian painters, writers, poets and filmmakers, interacting with artists from other countries.
In the spring of 2001, he received the Order of Canada for his excellence in the field of visual art.[2] He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[3]
Since the 1940s, he had over 65 solo and group exhibitions, with works in major public, private and corporate collections, including the National Gallery of Canada.[1]
Plaskett studied art in Banff, San Francisco, New York, London and Paris. He lived in Paris from 1951 until shortly before his death when he moved to Suffolk, England.[1] His chosen subjects were always intimate expressions of everyday life – interiors, still life, and portraits of friends and models.
In 2004, he set up the Joseph Plaskett Foundation which makes an annual award to a Canadian artist to enable them to travel to Europe to grow and study.[1] Plaskett said, "I created this award in emulation of what Emily Carr did for me in 1946. I would like young Canadian artists to enjoy the privileges I experienced more than a half century ago. Europe and, above all, France, have left me richer in knowledge and experience. Although things have changed a great deal since I first travelled and studied abroad, the lesson of Europe and it's [sic] past is always waiting for those ready to learn."[4] The Joseph Plaskett Award (often referred to as simply The Plaskett) supports an outstanding Canadian graduate student or recent (last 12 months) MFA graduate in the discipline of painting, to travel, make art, or study in Europe for one year.
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