ROY AUSTIN

Titled verso "The Matterhorn", signed lower left, also signed and dated 1973 verso, oil on panel, 30.5 x 35.6cm (12 x 14in); artist card verso with original price of $900.00; Roy Austin, Canadian, 1910-1997; born in England and moving to Canada at one year of age, Austin and his family settled in Orangeville, Ontario; in 1930, he enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, studying under prominent artists of the day including J.W. Beatty, J.E.H. Macdonald, Frank Carmichael and Yvonne McKague Housser; Austin graduated in 1934 and was accepted into annual exhibitions with the OSA and RCA