An oil painting that depicts a tranquil pond amongst a forest. Signature on bottom left to read M. Stary. Marcel Stary (1918 - 1962) was a Canadian artist. He was born in the former Czechoslovakia and studied Art in Prague. Marcel escaped during the Soviet occupation and came to Montreal, Canada in 1948. He traditionally worked in oil, watercolor and acrylics. His subjects included the landscape and life of the Inuit people in the Arctic and Labrador. H: 18 in. L: 24 in.