DIMENSIONS (actual): 12 1/4" high x 16 1/4" wide
DIMENSIONS (framed): 18 3/4" high x 22 3/4" wide

DESCRIPTION & NOTES: Canadian School oil painting landscape depicting the Ontario countryside in autumn, by listed artist John (Jack) Wilson McLaren (Canadian, 1896-1988) OSA. McLaren was an extremely talented artist who was successful in many mediums beyond the fine arts including illustration, caricature, acting and music. It is said that McLaren was asked by Lawren Harris to join the Group of Seven but declined to pursue his own interests instead opening the successful McLaren McCall advertising company. Later in life he stated that declining the Goldwyn-Mayer screen test offered to him by Irving Thalber, after a performance of one of his many shows at NY’s Ambassador Theatre, was his biggest mistake.

Original McLaren’s are scarce to appear at market and usually take the form of the delightful caricatures of notable Canadians, making an oil painting even scarcer.

This painting, accomplished with ease and clarity, depicts a country landscape of interspersed groupings of coniferous trees in a rolling rural field of green, situated under a clear blue autumn sky. In the foreground is cropped a deciduous tree with a shimmer of golden leaves left to fall, this addition adds to the complexity of the composition.

MARKINGS:  signed lower left, "McLaren"

CONDITION: It is in Superb Condition; guaranteed 100% free from damage and repair. It is clean and bright offered in its original period frame. Ready for Display.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: MCLAREN, John Wilson (Scottish, Canadian, 1896-1988) b. 1896 in Edinburgh. Immigrated to Canada in 1908. Studied: Royal High School, Edinburgh; Humberside Collegiate; Edinburgh College of Art under J. Campbell MItchell, David Allison, Henry Lintott etc. Active member of the Graphic Arts Society (1914). Military Service: Princess Patricia Light Infantry, wounded in France. Performed: Dumbells, touring Canada, Britain, USA at Broadway (1921). Worked; Commercial Art, NYC. Member: Arts & Letters Club (1922). Illustrator: General Motors, Eaton's SImpson's CPR, Ipmerial Tobacco, Imperial Oil; Our Great Ones; Gebrauchsgraphik (Germany); The Theatre Arts (USA); Esquire (USA); Verse and Verse (Walter Bowles, 1956); The Flying Bull and Other Tales (Watson Kirkconnell (1940, 1957). Owner J. w. McLAren and McCaul Ltd. Hailed by The Studio (London, Eng.) one of the sex leading exponents of caricature in North America. Author: 36 Canadian Historical Books, "Stereoscope '67". Architect: home in Goderich. Many Solo Shows. Lecturist: Group of Seven. Commissions: many murals. President Huron Historical Society. Museums: National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. (Source: Many thanks to the Dictionary of Canadian Artists!).

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