Toni Onley
(1928 - 2004) ARCA
Previously Sold Works
TONI ONLEY
Ann’s Garden
graphite on paper
signed lower left; titled lower right
7 x 9 ins ( 17.8 x 22.9 cms ) ( image )
TONI ONLEY
Shower, Savage Point, B.C.
watercolour
signed lower right, titled and dated “August 21, 1979” at the lower centre edge
11.25 x 15 ins ( 28.6 x 38.1 cms ) ( sight )
TONI ONLEY
Valley to the Sea
serigraph
signed, titled and numbered “AP iii/vi” in the lower margin
20.75 x 24.5 ins ( 52.7 x 62.2 cms ) ( sight )
TONI ONLEY
Mt. Cheam, B.C.
watercolour
signed lower right; titled and dated “March 7, 1987” lower left; sold together with the book “Toni Onley: A Silent Thunder by Roger H. Boulet
10 x 14.5 ins ( 25.4 x 36.8 cms )
TONI ONLEY
Silver Shore, Japan
colour serigraph
signed, titled and numbered 31/47 in the lower margin; unframed
19.75 x 24 ins ( 50.2 x 61 cms ) ( sheet )
TONI ONLEY
Montereggi, Toscana, Italy
graphite drawing
signed, titled, and dated “May 14, 1972” at the lower edge
6.25 x 8.25 ins ( 15.9 x 21 cms ) ( sight )
TONI ONLEY
Long Lake, Pointe au Baril, Ontario
watercolour
signed lower right, titled and dated “August 1, 1984” lower left
12 x 15 ins ( 30.5 x 38.1 cms ) ( sheet )
TONI ONLEY
Still Life in a Landscape
silkscreen
signed, titled and numbered 11/20 in the margin
11.25 x 15 ins ( 28.6 x 38.1 cms ) ( subject )
TONI ONLEY
Montague Bay, Galliano Island, B.C.
watercolour
signed, titled and dated 3 October 2003 in the lower margin
11 x 15 ins ( 27.9 x 38.1 cms ) ( sheet )
TONI ONLEY
Still Life
lithograph
signed, titled and numbered 42/50 in the lower margin
12.5 x 14.5 ins ( 31.8 x 36.8 cms )
TONI ONLEY
China Beach
colour serigraph
signed, titled and numbered 2/37
12.25 x 16 ins ( 31.1 x 40.6 cms ) ( sight )
TONI ONLEY
Iceberg, Lancaster Sound
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and dated “Dec. 13, 1979” on the reverse
29.75 x 39.75 ins ( 75.6 x 101 cms )
TONI ONLEY
Pine Islet, Georgia Strait, B.C.
watercolour on paper
signed lower right, titled and dated “30 July 1987” in the lower margin
11 x 15.5 ins ( 27.9 x 39.4 cms ) ( sheet )
T. Onley Biography
(1928 - 2004) ARCA
Widely known for his distinctive landscapes, British Columbia artist Toni Onley was born in 1928 on the Isle of Man and was educated in England and Mexico. He made his first trip to the Arctic in 1974 and later published “Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic”. His work has been the subject of a critical study by Roger Boulet entitled “Toni Onley, A Silent Thunder”. A recipient of the Order of Canada, Onley published Toni Onley's “British Columbia: A Tribute”(Raincoast, 1999) and an autobiography, “Flying Colours: The Toni Onley Story” (Harbour Publishing, 2003), as told to Gregory Strong, which recounts his victory as a 'Rolls-Royce rebel' who fought against Revenue Canada on a personal taxation issue, threatening to burn his paintings.
Onley died on February 29, 2004 in a single-plane accident when he crashed his plane into the Fraser River while presumably practicing landings and take-offs.
