Joseph Sidney Hallam
(1899 - 1953) RCA, OSA
Previously Sold Works
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Road to Lac Phillip, 1947
oil on board
signed lower right
13 x 16.75 ins ( 33 x 42.5 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Fairy Lake, Lake of Bays (Early May), 1948
oil on board
signed lower right
12 x 16 ins ( 30.5 x 40.6 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Indian Harbour
silkscreen
signed lower right in the plate & signed and inscribed “supervised by A.J. Casson” lower right
19.5 x 26.5 ins ( 49.5 x 67.3 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Fish Houses, Indian Harbour
sampson matthews silkscreen
a crease present in the upper right corner of the board; unframed
20 x 27 ins ( 50.8 x 68.6 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Toronto, Ontario, 1840
oil on canvas
signed lower right
16.25 x 20.25 ins ( 41.3 x 51.4 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
The Ploughman
sampson matthews silkscreen
unframed
30 x 40 ins ( 76.2 x 101.6 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $150.00
Sale date: September 17th 2019
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Log Driving
sampson matthews silkscreen
19.5 x 26 ins ( 49.5 x 66 cms ) ( sight )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Cottage in the Woods
watercolour
signed and dated 1928 lower right
9.75 x 11.75 ins ( 24.8 x 29.8 cms ) ( sight )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Shoreline Landscape
watercolour
signed and dated 1928 lower right
10 x 12 ins ( 25.4 x 30.5 cms ) ( sight )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Cool Morning
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed lower left; titled and dated Sept. 1939 on reverse
10 x 12 ins ( 25.4 x 30.5 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Cape Breton Harbour
sampson-matthews silkscreen
signed within the plate; title printed in the lower margin; unframed
19.5 x 26.75 ins ( 49.5 x 67.9 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Cape Breton Harbour
sampson-matthews silkscreen
artist name and title printed in the lower margin; signed within the plate; a Sampson-Matthews label on the reverse; unframed
19.5 x 26.75 ins ( 49.5 x 67.9 cms )
JOSEPH SIDNEY HALLAM
Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia
sampson-matthews silkscreen
unframed
20 x 27 ins ( 50.8 x 68.6 cms )
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J.S. Hallam Biography
(1899 - 1953) RCA, OSA
Joseph Sydney Hallam was born in 1899 in Manchester, England and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 12. He studied art at the Hamilton Technical School and Toronto Central Technical School. He took evening classes in anatomy at the Ontario College of Art under J.W. Beatty and private figure classes under F.H. Varley. He taught ‘costume figure’ in the evenings at the Ontario College of Art from 1940-1945.
Hallam considered himself first and foremost an illustrator in advertising and made his mark in this field. He joined Sampson-Matthews Limited around 1921, where he did posters, displays, and illustrations. In 1925 he won first prize in an international non-sectarian church poster competition. The competition was conducted by the Poster Advertising Association, Chicago, U.S.A., and involved the reproduction of his winning work on billboards throughout North America.
Hallam sketched often with Franklin Carmichael, with whom he worked at Sampson-Matthews. His work was reproduced by Sampson-Matthews in 1943 as part of the National Gallery’s plan to furnish scenes of Canada for Canadian armed forces throughout the world. Hallam’s exhibitions included the Canadian National Exhibition in the 1930s, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour from 1930 to 1936, a solo show at the Laing Galleries, Toronto in 1951, at the Roberts Gallery in 1958 and the Art Gallery of Windsor in 1961.
Hallam won the J.W.L. Forster Award in 1947 and the Art Directors Club Medal in 1950. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (ARCA–1943, RCA–1950), the Ontario Society of Artists (Member–1932, President–1948), and the Arts and Letters Club, Toronto (1935). Hallam’s work is found in numerous public collections including The National Gallery of Canada (RCA Diploma Collection), the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the late Pope Pius XII, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Public Library and Art Museum in London, Ontario.
