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Study of Ferguson’s Rock

Philip Surrey

BIRTH YEAR 1910
BIRTH PLACE Calgary, Alberta
DEATH YEAR 1990
DEATH PLACE Montreal, Quebec
MEDIUM Oil on masonite
DATE 1969
DIMENSIONS 40.6cm x 30.5cm x 0.6cm
ACCESSION NUMBER FAC 1433
CREDIT LINE Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, the Ottawa Art Gallery. Donated to the City of Ottawa by the Ontario Heritage Foundation
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A summer landscape depicts bathers drying off in the foreground, a blue lake in the mid-ground and blue-green mountains on the shore in the background. There is a dock on the right side with two figures standing on it, a rock in the centre of the foreground with a figure standing on it, and a grassy patch of land on the left side with a figure standing and a figure seated. All of the standing figures are drying themselves with white towels. There are green trees and a strip of sandy beach with a person docking a boat along the lakeshore on the left side of the painting. The figures are wearing blue, green, white and brown swimsuits (clothing).

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