Young Canadian

Date1932

Artist Charles Fraser Comfort Canadian, 1900 - 1994

Mediumwatercolour

Dimensions91.9 x 107.3 cm

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LinePurchased by the Sketch Committee 1934/35.

Object numberHH1934.006

DescriptionPortrait of a disheartened young man (specifically fellow painter Carl Schaefer) dressed in a brown suit, sitting on the ground with his legs spread apart and his arms resting on his knees, with his hands falling forward rather limply, in his right hand he is holding paint brushes, and in front of him is a sketch box. Behind the man, is a barren dark brown field with two grey houses set against a bleeding dark blue sky.

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