"Altercation on Plessis Street" - Frederick Bourchier Taylor
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Altercation on Plessis Street
Frederick Bouchier Taylor (1906-1987), Canadian
Colour serigraph. Signed and dated 1957
Frederick Bourchier Taylor was born and raised in Ottawa. He studied architecture at McGill University and then settled in Montreal where he taught drawing.
After war broke out in 1939, Taylor lobbied the Canadian Government to sponsor an officially sanctioned war-art program - but with no success. Instead, Taylor turned to the industrial sites of the Canadian Pacific Railway′s Angus Shops in Montreal, as well as several Canadian shipyards and other Canadian war industry factories. There he created over 200 paintings documenting Canada's industrial heritage and wartime efforts, capturing the greens and browns and greys of the factory floors, the harsh glare of factory lighting and the concentration and fatigue on the men's faces.
"Altercation on Plessis Street" continues Taylor's interest in documenting the lives of working Canadians - this time on the domestic front.
Provenance : acquired at auction by Bohaus Art.
11 ins x 8.3 ins / 27.9 cms x 21.1 cms