William RONALD ( 1926-1998 )
“FOUR SEASONS”
Oil on cotton, signed and dated RONALD – `59 lower left
Verso signed titled and dated, RONALD ‘FOUR SEASONS’ 8/13/59/
165.1 x 83.8 cm, 65 x 33 in.
Provenance:
Kootz Gallery, New York, 1959 – 1973.
Lawrence D. Bernhardt, Ardsley-on-Hudson, N.Y, 1973 – 1976.
William Ronald, Toronto, aquired from the above in trade in 1976 for “Ithica Snuf”.
Private Collection, Vancouver.
Exhibited:
“William Ronald” Kootz Gallery, New York, October 21 – Nov 7 1959.
Literature:
“William Ronald opening exhibit new paintings” Kootz Gallery catalogue, October 1959.
“Some views of the spacious new quarters of the KOOTZ GALLERY, 1959, illustrated in situ.
“Exile a Literary Quarterly” Vol. 2 #1, 1974, illustrated in colour between pg. 96-97.
“Ronald: 25 years” catalogue, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1975, illustrated in colour p. 9.
“Kootz: The History and Legacy of Samuel M. Kootz and the Kootz Gallery” The Fralin Museum of Art, 2017, p. 156..
Reference:
“William Ronald Fonds” Library and Archives Canada, inventory references #R-31, R-110 and #239.
Available
Bio:
William Ronald was born in Stratford Ontario. William Ronald graduates from the Ontario College of Art in 1952 then studies with Hans Hoffmann for six weeks in 1952 in New York. He arranges the first Painters Eleven exhibition in America in 1956 at the Riverside Museum in association with the American Abstract Artists (AAA). Ronald has his first American one-man show at the Kootz Gallery in 1957 and for the next seven years was represented along side of some of the most important artists in the world. Disregarding Jock Macdonald’s advice to “Never come back to Canada” Ronald returns to Canada in 1963 and exhibits in Toronto first with the Mirvish Gallery. Bill Ronald was one of Canada’s most colorful and talented artists, one of the few you can call truly international. Bill’s paintings are in almost every important art museum in North America.
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