Terry Tomalty ( 1935- )
Title ” RINK EAST END ”
Size 8″ x 10″ ( 15 3/8″ x 17 7/16″ framed ) ………$1395.00 Canadian
There aren’t too many things more Canadian than a game of shinny and no other artist is better know than Terry Tomalty for painting hockey in action. Here the diagonal placed boards leads us straight to the action of the incoming players while the goalie dressed in his farvourite Habs jersey stands firmly in defense. What happens next? We just don’t know, but it stirs youthful memories in any Canadian growing up playing shinny. It’s not until latter, when the eye wonders, do we take more notice of the bright red bricked apartments, trees and hydro line rising to the blue skies. The location appears to be Parc de Saint-Aloysius near Rue Adam, Montreal.
Terry Tomalty is a self taught artist with a career spanning 55 plus years. Born in 1935 Verdun, a borough of Montreal he learned to draw from copying characters in comic books in his youth. At age 16 he left high school to take up an apprenticeship at a local art studio. In the early 90’s he worked for the large international advertising firm J. Walter Thompson as art director designing advertisements for a large corporations. The artist classifies himself as a “painter of events” and catches the surrounding area with broad bold stokes of paint loaded with action. Although the artist painted cityscapes, landscapes and still lifes, he is best known for his representation of Canada’s best loved sport “the game of hockey”, be it the NHL or a shinny on the local rink.
“Rink East End”
8″ x 10″
Copyright of the artist and or the artist estate.