"Backyard Montreal" - Frederick Bourchier Taylor
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Backyard Montreal
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 through the 1930s.
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.
"Backyard Montreal" is a snapshot into the life of a dense urban community where the sight of children at play may have provided welcome relief from the pressures of life as it marched on just beyond the shadows of the traditional porte-cochere.
Provenance : acquired at auction by Bohaus Art.
11 ins x 8.3 ins / 27.9 cms x 21.1 cms