 The Arrival oil on canvas, 60" × 60" |
 Day at the Beach, 1999 oil on canvas, 54" × 40" |
 The Child's Dream, 1995 oil on canvas, 54" × 54" |
 The Daydreamer, 1995 oil on canvas, 56" × 36" |
 A Distant Memory, 1994 oil on canvas, 40" × 40" |
 A Family Outing, 1999 oil on canvas, 40" × 40" |
 A Quiet Day, 1999 oil on canvas, 38" × 36" |
 Stroller, 1994 oil on canvas, 36" × 36" |
 Separation, 1999 oil on canvas, 56" × 56" |
 Rural Landscape, 1994 oil on canvas, 36" × 44" |
 Evening Song, 1996 oil on canvas, 36" × 44" |
 Garden Games, 1997 oil on canvas, 34" × 42" |
 Harlequin, 1995 oil on box, 14" × 10" × 2" |
 A Warm Sunny Day, 1999 oil on box, 11" × 14" × 2" |
 Fairview Street, 1995 oil on box, 11" × 14" × 2" |
Carol Wald (1935-2000) – Artist Biography
Carol Wald's formative years were spent feeding an unquenchable thirst for art history. Having grown up in Detroit, she developed a love of the picturesque, manifested in paintings that evoked the beauty that lay beyond the grim reality of her northern industrial city. As a young summer boarder in the farms and fields surrounding Michigan and Wisconsin, Wald spent hours tirelessly honing her painter's hand. She would hand out cards introducing herself as “a student wanting to become an artist,” offering to paint neighbors and pets for five dollars a piece. At a local art store she completed quick studies for tips while her periodic art-show winnings enabled her to paint for months.
After excursions to England and Holland, Wald arrived in New York and became a successful graphic artist, contributing regularly to such publications as the New York Times, Viva, New York, Ms., and Saturday Review. She returned to acrylic work in the 1980s, garnering major solo exhibitions at the Kennedy Galleries. In 1990 she moved to Canada and set up a small studio in Burlington, Ontario where she undertook her most evocative series of psychoanalytical works until her untimely death at the age of
Through her visual and psychological references to an older, more spiritually complex world, Carol Wald presents a sequence of images that form a cumulative perception of reality – each painting “one frame of a motion picture transporting us on a journey through time.”