George Paginton
(1901 - 1988)
Previously Sold Works
GEORGE A PAGINTON
Evening Time
oil on board
signed twice along the lower edge; signed, titled and dated “June 1928” on the reverse; unframed
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
GEORGE PAGINTON
The Haunted House (Île d’Orleans)
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed lower right; titled and inscribed “015” with artist and estate stamp on the reverse
19.25 x 15 ins ( 48.9 x 38.1 cms )
GEORGE PAGINTON
Cape Breton Island
oil on canvas laid on board
artist’s estate stamp and inscribed “A125” on the reverse
8.5 x 10.25 ins ( 21.6 x 26 cms )
GEORGE PAGINTON
Newfoundland
oil on canvas laid on board
signed, titled, dated 1954 and inscribed “A-395” on the reverse
8.125 x 10 ins ( 20.6 x 25.4 cms )
GEORGE PAGINTON
Winter Landscape with Farm House
oil on canvas board
estate stamp on the reverse; titled on two labels on the support
16 x 20 ins ( 40.6 x 50.8 cms )
GEORGE PAGINTON
The Farmer and His Horse, Île d’Orleans
oil on board
signed lower right; estate stamp on the reverse; titled on two labels on the support
15 x 18 ins ( 38.1 x 45.7 cms )
GEORGE PAGINTON
World Fair, New York, 1939
watercolour
titled on two museum labels on the reverse
6.75 x 7.25 ins ( 17.1 x 18.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $880.00
Sale date: July 25th 2023
GEORGE PAGINTON
Gloucester
oil on canvas board
signed lower left; titled and dated 1935 on the reverse
14.5 x 18 ins ( 36.8 x 45.7 cms )
GEORGE PAGINTON
Empire Brass Store, circa 1932
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled and dated circa 1932 on an exhibition label on the reverse
36 x 24 in ( 91.4 x 61 cm )
Auction Estimate: $4,000.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $5,040.00
Sale date: April 22nd 2025
GEORGE PAGINTON
Homage to Tom Thomson
double-sided oil on board
signed on the reverse; titled and dated c.1938 to the exhibition label on the reverse; inscribed "Country Road" on the reverse
10.5 x 8.5 in ( 26.7 x 21.6 cm )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: January 28th 2025
GEORGE PAGINTON
Majestic Trees, 1939
oil on canvasboard
artist's initials stamped lower right; titled and dated circa 1939 on an exhibition label on the reverse
15 x 18 in ( 38.1 x 45.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $2,640.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
GEORGE PAGINTON
Evening, Adirondacks (Afternoon, Kearney)
oil on canvas board
signed lower right; titled and inscribed "A444" on the reverse; titled to the gallery label on the reverse
14.5 x 17.75 in ( 36.8 x 45.1 cm )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $1,200.00
Sale date: January 28th 2025
GEORGE PAGINTON
St. Lawrence
oil on canvas board
8.5 x 10.5 in ( 21.6 x 26.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: February 25th 2025
GEORGE PAGINTON
Steamboat in the St. Lawrence
oil on canvas board
8.75 x 10.75 in ( 22.2 x 27.3 cm )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,320.00
Sale date: March 25th 2025
GEORGE PAGINTON
Freighters, Toronto Harbour, 1931
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and dated 1931 on an exhibition label on the reverse
12 x 14 in ( 30.5 x 35.6 cm )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,040.00
Sale date: April 22nd 2025
George Paginton Biography
(1901 - 1988)
George Alfred Paginton was a painter who belonged in spirit and in time to a class of Canadian artists that included the members of the Group of Seven, David Milne, Berthe Des Clay, Goodridge Roberts and Anne Savage.
Paginton arrived at age ten to Lindsay, Ontario as one of the British Home Children. In 1927, he spent a term at the Ontario College of Art Summer School at Port Hope and studied under the direction of noted Canadian artists, John William Beatty, Frederick Haines, and Frederick Challener. It was Beatty who was first to express professional appreciation towards Paginton’s work. “Delighted with the bold Canadianism in the Paginton canvases,” he stated to the Toronto Daily Star on November 29, 1931 at Paginton’s first exhibition.
Like many Canadian artists at the time, Paginton became a commercial artist and landed his first job at Photo Engravers and Electrotypers Ltd., of Toronto and from there, he began a 43-year-long career in the Toronto Star’s art department.
Although roughly twenty years younger, Paginton was closely associated with Group of Seven member A.Y. Jackson and was a pallbearer along with A.J. Casson at Jackson’s funeral in 1974. In 1941, Paginton moved into the famed Studio Building and took over J.W. Beatty’s space, one floor up from Jackson.
As a plein air painter, his subject matter crossed the entire country from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, through Quebec and Ontario, to Alberta and British Columbia. Paginton’s favourite place to paint was Île d'Orléans, Québec and there are pictures depicting the landscape and culture of all six parishes.
George Paginton's work is held by many esteemed private collectors and public and museum collections across Canada including the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Algoma, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the City of Toronto, along with the National Capital Commission’s Official Residences Collection in Ottawa.
A retrospective of his work was presented by the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives, Ontario in 2019 along with the release of a book in both English and French about the artist and his work, George Paginton: Painting a Nation. Rediscovered, Paginton fills the gaps in the history of Canadian art. His work is represented at fine art galleries across Canada.
