This is Hot Weather, oil on canvas, by Canadian artist Bertram Richard Brooker, coming up for auction in May at Heffel Fine Art. Brooker (1888 – 1955) was among the most adventurous Canadian painters of his generation, as well as author of a Dostoyevskian novel Think of the Earth (1936) that made him the recipient of the inaugural Governor General’s Award for Literary Merit in 1937. He was also an editor and publisher.

More detail on the painting and the artist, here.