A.J. Casson
1898-1992

West Guildford, 1930

“This sketch is a reflection of my renewed interest in the villages of southern Ontario.

My wife and I spent some time during the summer of 1930 at a cottage on Twelve Mile Lake. While we were there, I explored the surrounding area and came upon the little village of West Guildford. That fall, I went back to West Guildford, rented an old, hunter’s cabin and sketched for a week.

From a technical point of view, this watercolour is a marriage of styles. The buildings, fence posts and road are echoes of earlier village sketches, while the hills are clearly reminiscent of the technique I used north of Lake Superior.”

A.J. Casson
Source: Book titled “My Favourite Watercolours 1919 to 1957”
Published by Cerebrus/Prentice Hall