Catalogue of paintings and water colors [microform] : comprising the art collections of Messrs. O.A. Howland and J.A. Smith to be sold by auction, without reserve, Wednesday, April the 20th at 2:30 P.M., at the rooms of C.J. Townsend & Co., 22 King Street West, Toronto
This 1898 auction catalogue from Toronto, printed by the Robinson-Arbuthnot Press, lists paintings and watercolours from the collections of Oliver Aiken Howland and J.A. Smith for sale at C.J. Townsend & Co. The plates are small, grainy halftone reproductions of landscapes and marine scenes, with a genre study of a figure at a picture on a later page. Their dark tonal masses, silhouetted boats and moody skies suggest atmospheric low-key compositions a designer could borrow for dusk or night palettes.
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