Lake Huron 19-06-87

Duncan de Kergommeaux

BIRTH YEAR 1927

BIRTH PLACE Premier, British Columbia

Ottawa-based artist Duncan de Kergommeaux offers us a painting with a view in Lake Huron 19-06-87. de Kergommeaux’s landscapes feature wide open spaces where vibrant colour and prominent horizon lines are key and their painterly nature harkens back to his decades long exploration of abstraction. This work is among a number of Lake Huron landscapes deKergommeaux completed while working in London, Ontario in the 1980s.

MEDIUM Oil on linen

DATE 1987

DIMENSIONS 60.9cm x 60.9cm x 1.9cm

ACCESSION NUMBER 2020.01.04

CREDIT LINE Collection of the Ottawa Art Gallery: gift of the artist, 2020

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A landscape portraying a waterfront scene. A shore of vegetation and sand is present in the foreground. The body of water occupies the middle ground, painted with two distinctive blues, light and dark, horizontally separating the lake in two. In the background the light blue sky is seperated by a pink horizon line.

Lake Huron 19-06-87

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