Artist: Jerry Grey (Canadian, b. 1940) RCA
Title: Chrysler’s Farm – Configuration in Pink (No. 2)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 1990
Dimensions: Canvas 36″ x 48″ (91.4 x 121.9 cm) / Frame 37 11/16″ x 49 3/4″ (95.7 × 126.4 cm)
Signature: Signed and dated ‘Jerry Grey 1990’ in pinkish pastel, lower right corner. Fully inscribed, numbered, titled, and dated by the artist on the upper stretcher bar (verso).
Price: $2200.00 Canadian
Description:
Painted in 1990, Chrysler’s Farm — Configuration in Pink represents a masterful mid-career intersection of Jerry Grey’s structural abstract background and her expressive narrative landscape realism. The painting depicts a serene stand of trees against an expansive horizon, rendered in an atmospheric palette dominated by pastel pinks, lavenders, and deep, elongated blue shadows.
Painted in 1990, Chrysler’s Farm — Configuration in Pink represents a masterful mid-career intersection of Jerry Grey’s structural abstract background and her expressive narrative landscape realism. The painting depicts a serene stand of trees against an expansive horizon, rendered in an atmospheric palette dominated by pastel pinks, lavenders, and deep, elongated blue shadows.
The title invokes the historic St. Lawrence River location of the War of 1812 Battle of Crysler’s (spelled ‘Chrysler’s’ (sic) by the artist in her handwritten inscription) Farm. Grey treats the landscape as a reflective study of space and memory, where the tranquil visual beauty honors the gravity of historical geography. This piece possesses pristine provenance, with matching signature details, dates, and title marks beautifully preserved on both the front face (recto) and the artist’s handwritten inscription on the structural frame (verso).
Artist Biography:
Jerry Grey is an acclaimed Canadian visual artist and educator who was honored as an inductee of the 2024 Ottawa Art Gallery Artist Investiture. Her training spans the Vancouver School of Art and the influential Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops, where she studied alongside North American modernists. Best known for her monumental public installations across Canada—such as The Great Canadian Equalizer (1979) in Ottawa—Grey’s work is held in prestigious public and private collections globally, including the Canada Council Art Bank and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Jerry Grey is an acclaimed Canadian visual artist and educator who was honored as an inductee of the 2024 Ottawa Art Gallery Artist Investiture. Her training spans the Vancouver School of Art and the influential Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops, where she studied alongside North American modernists. Best known for her monumental public installations across Canada—such as The Great Canadian Equalizer (1979) in Ottawa—Grey’s work is held in prestigious public and private collections globally, including the Canada Council Art Bank and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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