Yes...I spoke with him last night, and he gave me their E-mail address, as he wanted to see which one it was....after I E-mailed him we talked on the phone again.
He said he did this one in 1978, and even has in his records whom he had orginnially sold it to (J. Beattie). He said I got a really good deal, as for his smaller pictures start at $400, and this is a larger pic (approx 24 in Wide by 33 inches long). He is a retired *ART* teacher, but still paints. His pictures hang in Provincial Government offices, and Federal Government offices. Many lawyers offices all across Canada, and the USA have his pictures. He has a display that has been a travelling around, since he was a teacher of ART. He has art work commissioned all over the world. All his pieces are originial, one of a kind.
He does rural farming pixs, landscapes, and has now starting doing fishing boats, and ocean pictures which are being sold in Galleries on the California coast.
He was a little shock where I had bought it, and the price I had paid. He even offered that if I ever wanted to sell it, that he would buy it back....and he joked that an artist never pays the full price for his OWN WORK back...lol.
When at his summer/cabin/home in (Duck Lake, Saskatchewan)...he puts on a some shows July, and August. I told him that we usually get up that way in the summer to the lake, and he Welcomed me to stop by his Gallery there. Pat Dowie said his Gallery is not far from GLEN SCRIMSHAW GALLERY at Duck Lake. I told him that we have stopped by that *other Gallery* to look around when we have been on our way to the lake.
His Other Artist Friend: http://www.glenscrimshaw.com/other_pages/glen_story.htmlPat Dowie said he has been thinking of putting up his own web page, and said it could be in the near future, now that he has more time being retired.
He was surprised where I found it, but then said pictures do change hands, and things like this happen as this was a picture he did in 1978....so over time, people pass on, pictures change hands....then *somebody* doesn't like it...and gets rid of it.....
He said he will be doing a show in the future here, and said he would *sent me an invitition* to it. I had mentioned the site (
as Sue had posted here) where I finally found info on him.
As we talked, the funny part of the whole conversation was he grew up in an area about 30 miles away from where I was raised too. He knows the area where I an from. He said he started painting when he was about 12 years old, and his Dad used to give his paintings away to friends, neighbours, business friends. So he said that out towards Rosetown area, there are probaby a lot of his childhood painting out there.....and who knows what could happen to them -- and told me keep an eye out more ANY more good paintings at garage sales -- as somewhere down the road-- they sometimes end up there. He told me that he has heard of this happening to other painters, but I was his first. We laughed, and I told him I have watched the Antique Roadshow too much....
I asked him if he would sent me a letter to authenticate the painting...and he said that he also has a biography thing he hands out at shows. He did say he would sent me one, and a letter with his signature on it.....so time will tell IF he follows through on what he said
So that is all I know, and said the size of the picture I have would sell between $600 - $800 in the Gallery, and if not more....and said that "I did real good..."
He had to go, as he was painting at the time...and his brushes would dry out.
So that is what I have now found out.
