Roy Austin "Autumn Maples" Oil on Board, 1995 Cliffs of Moher Phosphor Tailings Ponds #2 is

Phosphor Tailings Ponds #2 is a stunning piece from Burtynksy's Watermark series

Hand inscribed in pencil "60/75" at the lower left corner

villages and countrysides

recurring with such frequency as to function as a kind of avatar for the artist

Original lyrics

Roy Austin "Autumn Maples" Oil on Board, 1995 Cliffs of Moher Phosphor Tailings Ponds #2 isRoy Austin (1910 1997) was born in Faversham, England and emigrated to Canada a year later. After a short stay in Toronto, his family settled in Orangeville, Ontario. Growing up surrounded by the rural countryside, the young Austin developed a keen appreciation of the beautiful Ontario landscape. In 1930, at age 20, Roy Austin enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and studied painting and design under J. W. Beatty, J. E. H. Macdonald,