Watercolour signed monogram, (Illingworth Kerr),
15" x 21 1/2", "Prairie Marsh",1982.
"Kerr was best known for his prairie and foothills landscapes. Fellow artist and friend John Snow stated, "I liked his work, its absolute honesty. It was straightforward and no-nonsense. He had such a fine sense of colour and such a knowledge of prairie landscape. He knew it from working it on trap-lines. But what I think set him apart most was his ability to look at landscape and think of it in abstract themes of volume, space and colour, to create more abstract designs without losing the form and contour of the land."
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