Summer
Oil on canvas
Likely 12 x 16
Signed. Dated 1934
National Archives of Canada
This painting was given as a gift in 1935 to
William Lyon Mackenzie King, then the Prime
Minister of Canada. Kim Bullock has a black
and white photograph of this painting that was
kept in her family and there it was dated 1932.
By 1935 Carl was very ill and likely wanted to
give a special painting in thanks for passage to England, but was unable to paint much, so he
changed the date. Were this painting to be
cleaned, the four and the dark patch over it
would likely come off as they would have been
added after the painting was varnished.
Kim Bullock is fairly sure she has the original
frame this painting had been in as this title
is written all over it. Carl would have reused
it for a different painting of the same size.
