Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 12" x 9"
Frame Size: 14" x 11"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Style: Modernist
Circa: Circa 1970-1989
Artist: Jori Smith (1907 - 2005)

Jori Smith was active/lived in Quebec / Canada. Jori Smith is known for portrait, still life, figure, landscape and mural painting.

Maxwell Bennett Bates was a painter, architect, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, writer, philosopher, and one of the pioneers of Expressionism* in Canada. He was a central figure of the Western Canadian art communities where he lived, a nationally recognized modernist, and, when he lived in London, he was welcomed into the vortex of British modernism. Examples of his paintings, drawings and prints are in virtually every major art museum in Canada.

He was born in Calgary, Alberta and died in Victoria, British Columbia where he had lived since 1962 (1). His other places of extended residence were London, England where he exhibited and worked from 1931 to 1939; and Stalag 9C, Bad Sulza, Thuringia, Germany, where he was incarcerated from 1941 to 1945 as a POW. (2)

His mediums included oil, watercolor, gouache*, pastel, graphite, charcoal, ink, linocut*, monoprint, woodblock prints*, serigraph*, lithograph* (3) and mixed mediums. His subjects included social commentary, allegory*, genre*, interiors, figures, landscape, urban scenes, prairie life, puppets, symbolism, fantasy, satire, portraits, children, families, still life, circus characters, POW life, shape, color and texture. His most recognized painting and graphic styles are Expressionism* and Fauvism*; his oeuvre also includes Abstraction*, Surrealism*, Op Art* and Realism*. His most famous architectural work is the Neo-Gothic St. Mary's Cathedral in Calgary. AskART have some good illustrations of his most recognizable painting style and subject - Expressionist figures. (4)

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