This pastel portrait painted in Mr Flood's style, was found amoung his works. 

This work shows Mr. Flood's ability to be equally at home in the pastel medium  and the figurative mode.  

Note how the form is conceived and built with planes in all parts of the work - including the light areas. This is the mark of a well trained artist. There is a tendency on the part of current art students to flatten the lights, much like burned out areas of a photograph - and not use planes to build form.  
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This could be a work up from a site sketch for the  oil painting (ref 004). 
 

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This is a pastel painting of Mr. Flood's daughter. 
 

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Portrait of Henri Masson, a fellow painter. 

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Black and White Photo from the collection of J. Flood, no other information available. 

If you have information please contact Mr. J. Flood 
 
 
 

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Black and White Photo from the papers of Mr. Flood. 
 

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This Victorian stately home built by the Perley's in the late 19th century was later  converted to  the "Perley Home for the Incurables". It next became home to the Canadian Department of Agriculture & Livestock Division.  

It was eventually abandoned only to witness it's stately lawn and garden scarred, by the Ottawa Transport Commission's terminis loop for its new expanding street railway car system. The house finally died in 1938, just after Mr. Flood's site sketch. 

The site is currently occupied by the Canadian National Archives building. 

Site Sketch: Pencil on Paper 1938  12in x 17in (ref-226) 

It is always facinating to find an artists site sketch and compare it to the worked up  drawing. Thanks to Mr. Flood's son John, we have that rare opportunity. 
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Photo 
Residence of Mrs. Georgina Perley 145 Wellington St.  Ottawa, Ont, April, 1894 
National Archives Negative no. E-67278 courtesy of Sandra Dyck curator Carleton University Gallery.

Family Collection 

It could well be assumed that Mr Flood, having come through the depression years experienced a lingering need to express his feelings which merged in his sketch of this neglected and abandoned house. The empty chair on the porch hints at emptiness - a loss - better times. 

The watery effects in the foreground and the shapes on the lawn point towards a warm spring day , a time of birth and life that will bring this house another year closer to it's end - a metaphorical comment on the frailty of life. 

 It would have been fascinating to see this sketch worked up in colour. 
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(Paraphrased from a Carleton University Gallery note) 

Site Sketch: Charcoal on Paper 1938~1939 

It is always facinating to find an artists site sketch and compare it to the worked up  painting. Thanks to Mr. Flood's son John, we have that rare opportunity. 
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It is easy for an artist to copy nature's great scenes, but to take a not so great scene of the Thurso National Valley Railway for logs and make it interesting, that is art! 

In 1942 this drawing, on exhibit in the Art Gallery of Ontario, was judged by the public as' "best picture in the exhibit." 
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This could be the site sketch. 
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Nat. Archives Canada 
Negative no. c146391 

We have a second portrait sketch in a different medium of the same person.  
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An excellent pencil portrait study. Mr. Flood has use pencil strokes to build form. The reproduction is just slightly off - the shadows defining the left side of the face are not as broken up as shown.  

He is at ease in identifying the planes of  the face and translating them into line. This is a true pencil drawing as opposed to the current tendency to shade in gradations to imitate a photographic likeness. 
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9.75 in by 11.75 in (ref-223) 
Family Collection 

House on Vaudreuil St. Hull PQ
Hull has been renamed to
Gatneau.
 

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Illustration by Wilfrid Flood from book "Romance of Canada" by A.L.Burt. 
 

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Illustration by Wilfrid Flood from book "Romance of Canada" by A.L.Burt. 
 

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Illustration by Wilfrid Flood for book titled " the Romance of Canada"  by  A.L.Burt 
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Illustration by Wilfrid Flood for book titled " the Romance of Canada"  by  A.L.Burt

 Pen and Ink 
 1938 
4.5 in x 4.5 in (ref-217) 

National Geographic Journal May 1938 
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National Geographic Journal May 1938 
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Source for (ref no. 148) 
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Copper Etching 
1940 
3.5in  by 4.5in (ref-255) 
Family Collection 
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Source sketch for copper etching (ref no. 255) above. 
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