Artist: Frederick Waugh
Year: c. 1900
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 31 × 38 inches
Condition: Excellent
Description: A dramatic and highly accomplished landscape, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach) by Frederick Waugh captures the grandeur and emotional force for which the artist is celebrated. Likely painted during the British Columbia Expedition in the late 19th or early 20th century, the composition reflects his fascination with untamed natural settings and monumental geology. Towering peaks, glacial passages, and luminous water are rendered with extraordinary confidence, creating a scene that feels both majestic and deeply atmospheric.
The title’s reference to Bach’s famous composition is especially fitting, as the painting carries a similar sense of movement, power, and orchesated drama. Waugh’s command of light, color, and structure transforms the rugged landscape into something almost symphonic. Broad passages of paint are balanced by remarkable detail throughout the ice, rock faces, and distant mountain forms.
Signed lower right, and additionally titled and signed on the verso, this important work comes housed in frame. It also carries notable exhibition history, having been shown at the Grand Central Art Galleries in the 1930s as part of an exhibition devoted to Waugh’s paintings. A striking example of the artist’s mature vision and technical brilliance.
Artist: Frederick Waugh
Year: c. 1900
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 31 × 38 inches
Condition: Excellent
Description: A dramatic and highly accomplished landscape, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach) by Frederick Waugh captures the grandeur and emotional force for which the artist is celebrated. Likely painted during the British Columbia Expedition in the late 19th or early 20th century, the composition reflects his fascination with untamed natural settings and monumental geology. Towering peaks, glacial passages, and luminous water are rendered with extraordinary confidence, creating a scene that feels both majestic and deeply atmospheric.
The title’s reference to Bach’s famous composition is especially fitting, as the painting carries a similar sense of movement, power, and orchesated drama. Waugh’s command of light, color, and structure transforms the rugged landscape into something almost symphonic. Broad passages of paint are balanced by remarkable detail throughout the ice, rock faces, and distant mountain forms.
Signed lower right, and additionally titled and signed on the verso, this important work comes housed in frame. It also carries notable exhibition history, having been shown at the Grand Central Art Galleries in the 1930s as part of an exhibition devoted to Waugh’s paintings. A striking example of the artist’s mature vision and technical brilliance.
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