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Canadian Lithograph on Paper Cornelius Krieghoff

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Canadian Lithograph on Paper Cornelius Krieghoff
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Lithograph on paper, framed. Featuring winter landscape with a figure hitching a horse while a child looks on. Text beneath the image reads "THE HABITANT'S home and surroundings, particularly in winter, was a theme of which Cornelius Krieghoff was very fond. He has left many colorful represnetations of Canadian scenes such as this one. Over 700 samples of his work are extant and, as it is studied, his fame and popularity increase. A. Y. Jackson, whose father was Krieghoff's first patron, says of him, "The value of his best works is contestable. OUr debt to him is greater than most people imagine. Though he was Dutch he ebcame one of us". Plate size: 40 x 52 cm (15.5 x 30.25 inches). Paper size: 44 x 56 cm (17 x 22 inches).