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Oil on board painting; signed Jocelyn Taylor RCA, CSPWC, FCA, OSA, (Canadian, 1899-1992); entitled "Woodward's Cove, Grand Manan" on verso; 24 x 30 inches (60.96 x 76.2 cm). Painting originally part of the art rental program of the Sarnia Public Library and Art Gallery, what is now known as the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery (Sarnia, Ontario). Originally born in Toronto, she studied art at the Central Technical School of Toronto, at the Ontario College of Art and at the Art Students' League in New York City under George Bridgman. Her career included working in set design for the Hart House theater in Toronto; she also taught in the Department of Dramatic Art at New York University, and later at the Central Technical School; Taylor exhibited intermittently with the Royal Canadian Academy, with the Ontario Society of Artists and the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. Her work was also shown at the International Salon in Vichy, France. The artist often traveled to paint at various sites including Haliburton and Georgian Bay in Ontario, Gaspe and Saguenay in Quebec, as well as the Maritimes and New Mexico. This particular oil on board piece features Grand Manan Island in Woodward's Cove, the largest of the Fundy Islands in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. The island is home to the Village of Grand Manan boasting a population of 2,360 at the time of the Canadian census (2016). PROVENANCE: Private collection, Montreal, QC