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Goodridge Roberts

Interior

Artist

Goodridge Roberts
Barbados 1904 – Montreal 1974

Title

Interior

Date

1939

Materials

Oil on cardboard mounted on panel

Dimensions

87.5 x 63.3 cm

Credits

Anonymous gift, inv. 2012.205

Collection

Quebec and Canadian Art

Goodridge Roberts settled in Montreal in 1936 and distinguished himself amongst Contemporary Arts Society members, who considered him, like John Lyman, as one of the most gifted of their number. In 1939, the year he painted this Interior, he was, along with Eric Goldberg and Louis Muhlstock, a member of the jury that selected the works for the Society’s first exhibition. In that same year, he also showed his watercolours at the Art Association of Montreal (now the MMFA), which then made its first acquisition of a Roberts work, a Laurentian landscape.

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