Illingworth Holey Kerr
(1905 - 1989) RCA
Previously Sold Works
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Prairie Landscape
watercolour
signed lower right with monogram
20 x 28 ins ( 50.8 x 71.1 cms ) ( sight )
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Qu’Appelle Valley, East of Lumsden, Sask.
oil on board
signed lower right with monogram; signed, titled and dated 1972 on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Storm Mountain, Moose and Fireweed
oil on canvas
signed (initialed) lower right; signed, titled and dated 1982 on the stretcher on the reverse
36 x 48 ins ( 91.4 x 121.9 cms )
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Evening Light, Spring, Tenth St. Bridge, Calgary
oil on canvas
signed with monogram lower left; titled a gallery label on the reverse
22 x 28 ins ( 55.9 x 71.1 cms )
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Kennell Hill Road, Qu’Appelle Valley
oil on board
signed with monogram lower left; signed, titled and dated 1980 on the reverse; inscribed “To Joan & John / Love Mother / E.C./’82” on the reverse
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Installing the Electric Hoist at Iqaluit Mine; The Mine
two watercolours
- “Installing the Electric Hoist at Iqaluit Mine” signed with monogram lower right; signed, titled and dated 1939 on the reverse; 15 x 20 ins. (sheet); unframed;
- “Untitled (The Mine)” signed and dated 1939 to the mat lower right; 4.5 x 6.5 ins (sight); framed
15 x 20 in ( 38.1 x 50.8 cm ) ( largest artwork )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $1,800.00
Sale date: July 23rd 2024
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Untitled (Lake View)
watercolour
signed with monogram lower center
14.5 x 21.5 in ( 36.8 x 54.6 cm ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $720.00
Sale date: July 23rd 2024
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Lake Shuswap, Moonlight
oil on panel
signed, titled, dated 1957 and inscribed “1723 10 St. SW Calgary” on the reverse; unframed
16 x 20 in ( 40.6 x 50.8 cm )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $2,040.00
Sale date: June 25th 2024
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Montreal River, Gowganda Ont.
oil on board
signed with monogram lower right; signed, titled and dated 1939 on the reverse
10 x 12 in ( 25.4 x 30.5 cm )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,500.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: May 13th 2025
ILLINGWORTH HOLEY KERR
Fifteen Linoblock Prints
fifteen linoblock prints
sold together with “Paint and Circumstance” by Illingworth Kerr (signed by the artist on the inside cover), “Illingworth Kerr: Fifty Years a Painter” by Margaret Callahan and “Illingworth Kerr Exhibition 1963” by Maxwell Bates
- “Owl” monogrammed lower right; 10 x 7 ins.;
- “Foxes” monogrammed lower right; 10 x 7 ins.;
- “Moose” monogrammed lower left; dated 1977 and inscribed “Christmas card”; 5 x 7 ins.;
- “Birds” 7 x 5 ins.;
- “Caribou” monogrammed lower right; 7.25 x 9.25 ins.;
- “Squirrel” monogrammed lower right; 6.75 x 9.75 ins.;
- “Hares” monogrammed lower right; dated 1973 and inscribed “Buck + Mary Xmas”; 7.25 x 10.25 ins.;
- “Snow Geese” titled in the lower margin; 5.5 x 9.5 ins.;
- “Mountain Goats” monogrammed lower right; 7 x 5 ins.;
- “Prong Buck Does” monogrammed lower right; signed and titled in the lower margin; 6.25 x 9.5 ins.;
- “Llamas” monogrammed lower left; 5 x 7 ins.;
- “Cat” 5.5 x 7.25 ins;
- “Buck and Doe” monogrammed lower left and dated 1971 upper left; 10.25 x 7.25 ins.;
- “Billy Goat and Nanny Goats” monogrammed lower center; 10 x 7 ins.;
each unframed
10.25 x 7.25 in ( 26 x 18.4 cm ) ( largest artwork )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,000.00
Price Realized $2,640.00
Sale date: July 23rd 2024
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Illingworth Kerr Biography
(1905 - 1989) RCA
Illingworth "Buck" Kerr was born in Lumsden, Saskatchewan in 1905. He studied at the Central Technical School in Toronto in 1924. From 1924 to 1927 Kerr studied under Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, and J.W. Beatty at the Ontario College of Arts. Kerr also studied at the Westminster School of Art in London in 1936, as well as with Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1954. In 1955 and 1957 he attended Emma Lake Workshops. Kerr traveled the Georgian Bay area, Ontario in 1927, and England and France from 1960 to 1961. He taught at the Vancouver School of Art from 1945 to 1946 and was head of the Alberta College of Art from 1947 to 1967. He was a great influence and friend to many artists of that era. As well, from 1952 to 1953, he was president of the Alberta Society of Artists. Kerr was also a member of the Canadian Authors Association; he wrote many short stories and illustrated many publications including his autobiography, Gay Dogs and Dark Horses, in 1946. He received a Canada Council Award in 1960. He painted portraits, the life of Indigenous peoples, urban views, wildlife, and the Prairie and Ontario landscape. He used the media of oil, acrylic, watercolour, charcoal, and ink, as well as woodblock, linoblock, monotype and silkscreen prints.
