Frenchtown, Cobalt, Ontario (Chambers-Ferland Mine)

Wilfrid Flood

BIRTH YEAR 1904
BIRTH PLACE Dalston, England
DEATH YEAR 1946
DEATH PLACE Ottawa, Ontario
MEDIUM Watercolour on paper
DATE 1939
DIMENSIONS 38.1cm x 45.7cm
ACCESSION NUMBER 2016.02.49
CREDIT LINE Collection of the Ottawa Art Gallery: gift of George Heaslip, 2016
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A painting depicting a mining town. The background presents mining tailings and a grey wooden headframe rising into the sky and dominating the upper left side of the composition. From the left to the right, the foreground presents several houses. A small piece of cultivated land is present in the middle right. Brown and grey tones predominate the composition.

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