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53 HAROLD BARLING TOWN, R.C.A. UNTITLED oil on board signed and dated ‘59 12 ins x 12 ins; 30.5 cms x 35.6 cms Provenance: Private Collection, Ontario Private Collection, British Columbia (by descent) $8,000–12,000
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Literature: David Burnett, Town, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1986, page 86. Iris Nowell, Harold Town, Figure 1 Publishing Inc., Vancouver, 2014, page 94. Note: At the end of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s, Town was riding a wave of popularity. In 1958 he participated in a two man exhibition with Paul Émile Borduas in London, England which drew positive reviews. In 1961, he was featured on the cover of Maclean’s magazine. This “flood of publicity,” as David Burnett describes it, was “unprecedented for a contemporary Canadian artist and unmatched since.” Burnett further cites fifteen solo exhibitions for Town between 1959 and 1964.