Provenance

Acquired from the Banting estate

Private collection, Toronto

Exhibited

Frederick Banting: Paintings, Drawings and Memorabilia, Nov. 1-30, 2008,

The Gibson Centre for Community, Arts and Culture, Alliston, Ontario.

Illustrated on back cover of the exhibition catalogue.

Following in the footsteps of his friend and sketching companion A.Y. Jackson, Banting journeyed across Canada to pursue his passion for painting. From the Canadian Arctic to the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and from the colorful houses of Cobalt, Ontario, to the Rocky Mountains near Jasper, Banting captured the beauty of the country through his art. Despite his fame in the medical field for co-discovering insulin, Banting had planned to retire on his fiftieth birthday to focus solely on painting. Banting found solace in the anonymity and solitude of landscape painting, yet tragically, he never fulfilled his dream of becoming a full-time artist, as he passed away in a plane crash at the age of 49.