Rush Hours, 1961
September 4 – 14, 2012
Art Party: Thursday, September 6, 2012, 7 – 9 p.m.
WELLINGTON STREET ART GALLERY
270 Wellington Street West, Suite 105
(between John Street & Blue Jays Way)
Toronto, ON
T: 647-352-3463
wellingtonstreetartgallery.ca
Hours: Tues-Fri 12–6, Sat 12–4 p.m.
GWYNETH MABEL GWILLIM TRAVERS (1911-1982) / Respectful Retrospective / Woodblock Prints from the 1950-70’s
Born in Kingston, Ontario, she studied painting & print-making under Andre Bieler, George Swinton, & Ralph Allen at Queen University (Kingston, ON).
Excerpt from Kingston Whig Standard, Nov. 13, 1972: “Mrs. Travers explained how in preparing a four color print, she uses four separate wood blocks, & to achieve the final result, prints one on top of the other. The active surface patterns and convincing textural details are achieved by using different types of wood, with different grains & surfaces….”. Winner of numerous awards, she is represented in the National Gallery of Art, Queen’s University, Winnipeg Art Gallery, & Montreal Museum of Fine Arts among others.
A retrospective show of Gwyneth Traver’s artwork (buildings of Kingston) was held in the summer of 2011 at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University. The following abstract and contemporary artworks have never been presented except by the Wellington Street Art Gallery.
NOTE: The art exhibition will include numerous original signed and dated woodblock artworks from the 1950 – 70’s (mostly abstract/contemporary), and will be well-priced (both framed and unframed) from $100 – $450.