Name/Title
Going to the Wiener RoastEntry/Object ID
2019.02.01Description
Painting
This charming sunny beach scene depicts a group of people or large family with a dog carrying bags and blankets on their way to a wiener roast (out of view to the left). Two boys are poling a raft to the right in the ocean shallows, with sailboats and buoys in the near distance and islands in the far distance. The location is unknown, but could be Cordova Bay Beach north of Victoria.Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolour on paperContext
This painting is done by an award-winning illustrator in a confident and minimalist style with a careful composition, basic shapes, minimal texture, and pops of bright colour. It is not known if this image was used as an illustration in a book or other type of publication to tell or complement an idea or story, or as a standalone painting.
The image speaks to us directly and engages our attention, as most people have enjoyed a warm summer day at the beach, swimming, sun bathing and more. And the viewer wonders who the people are and their relationships and how far they have to walk to reach the wiener roast.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Ann Sager BladesRole
PainterDate made
1986Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Vancouver, B.C., Ann Sager Blades is Canadian illustrator, artist, writer and educator, who today is considered an iconic figure in children’s literature and illustration. While encouraged to pursue her interest in watercolour painting as a student in England, she received no formal art training. Instead she received her teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia in 1970 and a nursing degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1974.
Blades then moved to small communities in B.C. where she taught and wrote and illustrated her first books in which she drew inspiration from the lives of her students, capturing the experience of growing up in rural isolation. Her books met with immediate success and critical acclaim. She also worked as a registered nurse at Vancouver hospitals. Her “Mary of Mile 18” won a Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award and was made into an animated film. The later “A Salmon for Simon” won the Canada Council’s Children’s Literature Prize for Illustration and the Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award. She has written/illustrated 18 books, and has also illustrated the works of many other authors. Her archival fonds (ca. 1967 to 2013) are held by the University of British Columbia.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Signature, LabelLocation
Signed lower right: ann bladesTranscription
Verso frame, label (pre-printed and handwritten in pen):
BAU-XI GALLERY LTD.
3045 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. V6H 3J9 CANADA (604) 733-7011
ARTIST ANN BLADES
TITLE GOING TO THE WEINER ROAST
MEDIA watercolour/paper DATE 1986
SIZE 15x11" PRICE $330 unfr / $400 fr
BAU-XI GALLERY LTD.
3045 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. V6H 3J9 CANADA (604) 733-7011Dimensions
Dimension Description
Visible imageHeight
38.1 cmWidth
27.9 cmAcquisition
Acquisition Method
PurchaseDate
Oct 2, 2018Notes
Lunds Lot #641
Original BAU-XI Gallery invoice July 1988 #78845 in file
