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\u201cThe earliest representation of Curling is in a painting by PIETER BRUEGAL around 1550. The Royal Montreal Curling Club dates from 1807 and celebrated its 150th anniversary by a BONSPIEL in 1957. The Grand Caledonian Curling Club was founded in Edinburgh in 1838.\/ The Oldest Club in United States is the Orchard Lake Club in Michigan founded in 1831. The Grand National Curling Club of America was founded in New York in 1867. Of its original seven member clubs the only surviving one is the Caledonian Curling Club of New York City.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Denis Wreford was the art director or production designer for several films made in the United Kingdom from at least 1936 until 1959, including The Diamond Wizard<\/strong> (1954) and Make Mine a Million<\/strong> (1959).<\/p>\n
Condition: Generally very good with the usual light overall toning,\u00a0 and wear. Scattered crinkling and soft creases, mostly to right margin.<\/p>\n
Reference:<\/p>\n
\u201cDenis Wreford.\u201d Internet Movie Database.<\/em> http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0942091\/ (7 September 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Denis Wreford (1905-1988)
\nCurling, 1780
\n<\/strong>Montreal [?]: c. 1957
\nScreen print on canvas-textured paper
\nSigned in pencil lower right: \u201cDenis Wreford\u201d
\nInitialed in print lower right: \u201cD. W.\u201d
\n15.75 x 22 inches, printed border
\n16.5 x 23 inches, overall
\n$550<\/p>\nSporting print of a late 18th century curling match (known as a bonspiel) at the foot of a snow-covered white castle \u2014 presumably a festival ice castle in Montreal, Quebec. The players, dressed in every day overcoats and top hats, curling on a simple makeshift iced over irregular surface. In the background, a brigade of redcoat soldiers is stationed, and onlookers enjoy festival amusements in the background. A bonspiel is a curling tournament, consisting of several games, often held on a weekend. Until the 20th century most bonspiels were held outdoors, on a frozen freshwater pond or loch. Today almost all bonspiels are held indoors on specially prepared artificial ice. The players slide <\/span>flat-bottomed stones\u00a0 toward concentric circle targets, guided by a player sweeping the ice with a broom before the stone to adjust speed. This print was issued in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Royal Montreal Curling Club in 1957. It was the first curling club \u2014 indeed the first athletic organization of any kind \u2014 established in North America.<\/p>\n
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