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Gershon Iskowitz 1921 - 1988 Canadian oil on canvas Sky-D "45 x 39 inches 114.3 x 99 centimeters on verso signed, titled and dated 1982 Literature:Adele Freedman, Gershon Iskowitz: Painter of Light, 1982, pages 5 and 90 Provenance:Gallery Moos, Toronto Private Collection, London Adele Freedman wrote of Gershon Iskowitz, "In a single decade, the seventies, reviewers called him a colour-field painter, an impressionist, and an abstract expressionist. 'I don't believe any of it,' [Iskowitz] insists. 'You are what you are. I'm a painter. I paint.'" Although never associated with any particular group of artists in the Toronto art scene of the 1960s and 1970s, he was both admired and respected by colleagues of his own generation and was a generous mentor to many young painters of the next. Feted and honoured by the 40-year retrospective exhibition of his work at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1982, Iskowitz still rarely broke his daily routine. He painted for long hours every night, conjuring his unique vision of nature and of the Canadian north in the kind of glowing colour that is exemplified by Sky-D. Art dealer Dorothy Cameron remembered his first show with her: "He'd taken the Canadian landscape and just turned it into something we never saw.....He saw this lovely, soft, romantic golden afternoon and blue tender sky." Iskowitz continued steadfastly expanding that vision throughout his admirable career. "