Franklin Carmicheal (Again) – Old Orchard

Franklin Carmichael’s Old Orchard, 1940 (above) has the same deep textures and colors of another of his revered, bucolic works (Farm, Haliburton, 1940).

But there’s a longer story behind this work by the Group of Seven co-founder, who took 20 years to bring the painting to life. See the video below for the full tale.

The painting sold this spring at a Cowley Abbot auction for $768,000, well above the pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $500,000.