HAROLD TOWN "MAROON LAGOON" SINGLE AUTOGRAPHIC PRINT, 1956Harold Town (1924 1990) remains one of the most accomplished and fascinating characters from the "Painters Eleven" group. While Town coined the group's name (based on the number of artists who simply attended their first meeting) his output was diverse, ever changing and not restricted to painting. Somewhat ironically, Town's first significant body of work, which established his reputation, was a group of monotype which he called "Single Autographic

Pachter’s swimmer cuts through the space on the paper

His work appears in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions and is today represented in prestigious institutions

applied to this signature subject matter

It wasn't created as part of a series

presented and judged in Western culture

along with Queen Elizabeth and the Moose

It was a fitting idea as the station is just steps from the Toronto Maple Leaf's original home - the Maple Leaf Gardens

25"W (work)

After completing his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1964

following her to first Montreal and then Toronto

The central hovering form is an enhanced and exaggerated pattern from a turn-of-the-century lace fragment

Signed and dated by the Artist