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Painting
Title:
'Balsamorhiza Sagittata' - PFL63
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Artist:
Dr. DM Flather, FCA
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Painting
Size:
16" x 23"
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Painting
Materials:
Oil on panel
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Painting
Date: Circa
1970's
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Description:
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This
painting comes from Donald's "Plants Paintings
Series" that Donald painted between 1944 and 1978.
Shown is the framed side view.
Dr.
DM Flather was both a talented scientist and accomplished
botanist with a keen interest in the natural world including
trees, plants and flowers. This bright and cheery floral
painting is number 63 in the Plants Series and features
bright orange and yellow blossoms from the latin name
Balsamorhiza Sagittata plant. Donald, as he considered
himself a man of Science liked to call flora and fauna
by their Latin names).
Donald
kept a very active greenhouse at his Kerrisdale, Vancouver
home on East Boulevard and was one of the original World
War II "Victory Garden" creators in the 1940's
where he tended a second garden next to the railway
tracks across the road from his home on the Boulevard.
Donald
even tunneled underneath the road to run a water line
to keep not only his, but his neighbour's Victory Gardens
watered.
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Additional:
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Signed
on the front and comes with an elegant, complimentary
new gallery style frame featuring an antiqued gold outer
moulding valued at $325.00 CAD.
Custom
Framing Available: Click on the image below to open
it in a new window, then save it to your computer. Then
visit https://www.larsonjuhl.com/en-US/
where you will be given the option to upload the image.
You can then select from a large variety of contemporary
frames including real wood, metallic and faux finishes.
Then just let us know which 6 digit codes that you want.
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Provenance:
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Private
Collection, Penticton, BC
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Status:
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Available
For Acquisition. Priced
at $4,500.00 CAD.
Private
sale - Sales Tax Exempt.
This painting will be part of the Exhibitions.
Please
contact David Flather at 604-818-9274 or by email
for more information.
Rear
view of this painting:
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