Franklin Arbuckle

Farm at Fassett north of Montebello Quebec - February 22 1986
29.2 x 39.2cm oil on wood panel
Kenny Collection

A late winter afternoon of long blue shadows on a cold day. An almost turquoise sky that you sometimes get on a really cold day. It reminds me of Ottawa backyards with wooden garages piled high with snow.
George Franklin Arbuckle (1909-2001) was born in Toronto Ontario.
He studied at the Ontario College of Art under J.W. Beatty, F.S. Challener, J.E.H. MacDonald. He also taught art at the Northern Vocational School in Toronto from 1932-38, and at the Franz Johnston Summer School in Georgian Bay from 1932-40.
He was married to Frances-Anne Johnston, daughter of Group of Seven member Franz Johnston.
Member of Ontario Society of Artists. G.F. Arbuckle was made president of the Royal Canadian Academy from 1960-64.
He is represented in the I.B.M. Collection of Contemporary Art, and the R.C.A. Diploma Collection in the National Gallery of Canada.
He exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1932-66, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1946-67. His knowledge of historical subjects helped him as an illustrator, his landscapes, cityscapes and figurative paintings are typically mid 20th century.
This landscape seems to be quite typical of his some of his better work which you can find in the McCord museum in Montreal.