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Barker Fairley Harold Town

Barker Fairley

1887 - 1986. Born in the Yorkshire coal-mining town of Barnsley on 21 May 1886, Fairley came to Canada to teach & from 1915 on was a Professor of German Literature at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1957. He wrote a number of books, the best known [more]
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image: WHITE HOUSE, WINTER NIGHT
image: WHITE HOUSE, WINTER NIGHT
WHITE HOUSE, WINTER NIGHT

1971
Oil on board
20 x 24 in.
Signed on bottom right FAIRLEY

Verso:

Painted overtop a portrait of JAMES McCURDY, 1959 - the title has
been scratched out by the artist and replaced by:
WHITE HOUSE, WHITE NIGHT 1971
Barker Fairley

Comment:

There is a summer landscape of the same location entitled "Moonlight at Beaverton" (from a pencil sketch of 1936).

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