Provenance

Private collection, Montreal

Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc. Montreal

Cowley Abbott, Toronto

Private collection, Toronto

Literature

“Canadian Forum”, July 1927, illustrated page 305 as “Totem Poles in Kitselas”
Ian Thom, “The Prints of Edwin Holgate”, Kleinburg, 1990, unpaginated, illustrated
Rosalind Pepall & Brian Foss, “Edwin Holgate”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005, illustrated page 60.

By the early 1930s, Canada saw a revival of interest in wood engraving. Edwin Holgate, a talented painter, illustrator and muralist, taught the subject of woodblock printing at the École des beaux-arts until 1934 and continued to create his own prints throughout that period. During the summer of 1926, Edwin Holgate visited the Skeena in B.C. with Marius Barbeau and A.Y. Jackson, creating a series of works from “Totem Poles, No. 1” to “Totem Poles, No. 5″.