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Item Name: Print
Title: Ebb-tide and Waiting
Maker: Tom Forrestall
Year: 1979
Country: Canadian
Materials: lithograph
Measurements: in frame: 54 cm x 81 cm; work: 49 cm x 69 cm
ID Number: ART 155
Legal Status: ART RENTAL
Extended Label Info: On an empty pier at night, a car and driver wait. The passenger door is swung open. It is a mysterious scene which invites our speculation—who is waiting? Why? Entitled “Ebb-tide and Waiting” this lithographic image was drawn and hand-printed by the Nova Scotian artist Tom Forrestall. His approach to composition infuses a highly realistic, almost mundane subject matter, a waiting car, with a dream-like sense of story. This technique is very similar to the work of several other painters in the Maritimes: Alex Colville, Christopher Pratt, and the photo-realist Mary Pratt. Known as “Atlantic Realism”, their work depicts everyday life and the Maritime landscape through a poetic lens. Thomas (Tom) DeVany Forrestall C.M., O.N.S., B.F.A. LL.D., RCA (1936—) is one of the leading figures associated with the visual arts of the Maritime region. He was born in Middleton, Nova Scotia. Growing up in Dartmouth, he crossed the bridge to Halifax each Saturday morning to attend art classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art (now NSCAD University). In 1954, Forrestall was awarded a scholarship to Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, where he studied under Lawren P. Harris and Alex Colville. He earned his BFA in 1958, and with funding from one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study, travelled Europe. Returning, Forrestall worked as an assistant curator at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton (1959) but became a full-time painter the following year. In addition to his studio practice, he worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, and as a designer at UNB Press. Forrestall’s work has exhibited internationally and is held in numerous private and public collections. His work is featured in the book “High Realism in Canada” (Paul Duval, 1974), and in two monographs, “Shaped by This Land” (1974) and “Returning the Favour: Vision For Vision” (1992).
Title: Ebb-tide and Waiting
Maker: Tom Forrestall
Year: 1979
Country: Canadian
Materials: lithograph
Measurements: in frame: 54 cm x 81 cm; work: 49 cm x 69 cm
ID Number: ART 155
Legal Status: ART RENTAL
Extended Label Info: On an empty pier at night, a car and driver wait. The passenger door is swung open. It is a mysterious scene which invites our speculation—who is waiting? Why? Entitled “Ebb-tide and Waiting” this lithographic image was drawn and hand-printed by the Nova Scotian artist Tom Forrestall. His approach to composition infuses a highly realistic, almost mundane subject matter, a waiting car, with a dream-like sense of story. This technique is very similar to the work of several other painters in the Maritimes: Alex Colville, Christopher Pratt, and the photo-realist Mary Pratt. Known as “Atlantic Realism”, their work depicts everyday life and the Maritime landscape through a poetic lens. Thomas (Tom) DeVany Forrestall C.M., O.N.S., B.F.A. LL.D., RCA (1936—) is one of the leading figures associated with the visual arts of the Maritime region. He was born in Middleton, Nova Scotia. Growing up in Dartmouth, he crossed the bridge to Halifax each Saturday morning to attend art classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art (now NSCAD University). In 1954, Forrestall was awarded a scholarship to Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, where he studied under Lawren P. Harris and Alex Colville. He earned his BFA in 1958, and with funding from one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study, travelled Europe. Returning, Forrestall worked as an assistant curator at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton (1959) but became a full-time painter the following year. In addition to his studio practice, he worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, and as a designer at UNB Press. Forrestall’s work has exhibited internationally and is held in numerous private and public collections. His work is featured in the book “High Realism in Canada” (Paul Duval, 1974), and in two monographs, “Shaped by This Land” (1974) and “Returning the Favour: Vision For Vision” (1992).