{"product_id":"gershon-iskowitz-summer-song-1966","title":"GERSHON ISKOWITZ \"SUMMER SONG\" 1966","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaviar20 is excited to be offering this important and large-scale canvas, from the first chapter of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/collections\/gershon-iskowitz\"\u003eGershon Iskowitz's (1919-1988)\u003c\/a\u003e lifelong career in abstraction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor most of the 1950s, Iskowitz incorporated representation into his art. By the 60s he had established a modest reputation in Toronto and beyond,  joining the Gallery Moos stable in 1964. The legend goes that in 1967 thanks to a Canadian Council grant, Iskowitz took a helicopter tour of Churchill, Manitoba. The experience of seeing the massive expanse of trees from above inspired a major redirection of his aesthetic and material and approach. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile suggestive of an aerial landscape, \"Summer Song\" was actually created a year before the seminal helicopter trip. This canvas is part of a series of simplified paintings that emerged during a dramatic shift, just before the voyage. This was a pivotal moment in Iskowitz's career, when his mature abstract language was coming into focus. In the same year, Gallery Moos represented an important exhibition of his work, accompanied by a catalogue text from Harry Malcolmson that affirmed the artist's growing stature within Canadian abstraction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaintaining a connection to nature, Iskowitz applies bushels of denim blue and bright red, accented by jade green and marigold (a later favourite colour of the artist's). These groupings exist amid a luminous off-white-coloured ground -- suggestive of an aerial landscape or perhaps a view of the sky from below. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConsider this passage from historian Theodore Allen Heinrich, quoted in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ehistorian Ihor Holubizky's biography on Gershon Iskowitz (which we highly recommend; it can be accessed online \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aci-iac.ca\/art-books\/gershon-iskowitz\/key-works\/autumn-landscape-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e):\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“[Iskowitz] not only completely abandoned representation [but] altered his position with relation to it. The first new orientation in place of looking at was to look straight up from the ground level, the other was to be up at some height and look straight down. [...] This might be termed intimate cartography, poeticized by its sensibility to season change and the times of day or night, clear or overcast as expressed by light.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis later 1960s period marked a significant moment in Iskowitz’s growing national recognition. Following his inclusion in the Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting and election to the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the present canvas was later featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s survey of the Imperial Oil Collection, affirming its early institutional recognition. It is also worth mentioning that many of Iskowitz's paintings of the late 1960s are on a smaller domestic scale. It is only in the following decade that Iskowitz embraces large-scale painting. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMost major institutions in Canada hold a painting from the late 1960s; This is a rare opportunity to acquire a work of such caliber and importance. To see a published image of this work, as well as other paradigms of his work in major institutions, Caviar20 recommends the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aci-iac.ca\/art-books\/gershon-iskowitz\/key-works\/autumn-landscape-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArt Canada Institute's resources\u003c\/a\u003e on Gershon Iskowitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions about this piece? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:troy@caviar20.com\"\u003eContact us\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, call +1.416.704.1720, or\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/pages\/contact\"\u003evisit our Toronto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Summer Landscape #2\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCanada, 1967\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSigned and dated, lower right\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e65\"H 50\"H (work)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e66.25\"H 51.5\"W (framed)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eVery good condition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eProvenance: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGallery Moos, Toronto\u003cbr\u003eImperial Oil Limited\u003cbr\u003eEstate of Dr. Luigi Rossi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLiterature:\u003cbr\u003eIhor Holubizky, \"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.aci-iac.ca\/art-books\/gershon-iskowitz\/key-works\/autumn-landscape-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGershon Iskowitz: Life \u0026amp; Work\u003c\/a\u003e,\" Art Canada Institute, page 38.\u003cbr\u003e\"The Rossi Collection: A Circle of Friends,\" Kelowna Art Gallery, 2018, reproduced page 30 and listed page 44.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eExhibited:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, \"A Canadian Survey: Selected Works from the Collection of Imperial Oil Limited,\" January 12 – February 17, 1980; traveling in 1978 – 1980 to multiple Canadian venues, including the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Windsor; and Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, catalogue #15\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Kelowna Art Gallery, \"The Rossi Collection: A Circle of Friends,\" November 10, 2018 – January 20, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNote: price is $85,000 CAD.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gershon Iskowitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48140750881004,"sku":"08-26","price":85000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/2712\/files\/Caviar20_Gershon-Iskowitz-Summer-Song_01.jpg?v=1786364486","url":"https:\/\/www.caviar20.com\/products\/gershon-iskowitz-summer-song-1966","provider":"Caviar20","version":"1.0","type":"link"}