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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: David Drum, Emergence, 1987
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David Drum Canadian, b. 1944

Emergence, 1987
oil and encaustic on archival mat board
16 x 12 in
signed bottom left
CAD 600.00
David Drum, Emergence, 1987
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David Drum’s Emergence is a vivid abstract composition built from sweeping gestures, layered colour, and heavily worked texture. Brilliant yellow and white dominate the centre, creating a luminous field from...
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David Drum’s Emergence is a vivid abstract composition built from sweeping gestures, layered colour, and heavily worked texture. Brilliant yellow and white dominate the centre, creating a luminous field from which rounded violet, blue, and red forms appear to surface. Along the right and lower edges, dense passages of crimson, purple, orange, blue, and metallic gold gather into a richly textured mass, contrasting with the more open, light-filled areas above.


Curving lines and repeated circular shapes suggest movement, growth, and forms coming into view, while scattered drips, scratches, and impasto marks give the surface a tactile, spontaneous quality. The painting balances energetic disorder with a strong sense of upward motion, as though colour and imagery are gradually emerging from a turbulent, organic environment.

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Provenance

- estate of Wilfred Clayton Drum

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