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Title

Mount Robson : spiral road of art / Jane Lytton Gooch ; preface by Robert W. Sandford.

Author

Gooch, Jane Lytton.

Publication

Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books, c2013.

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Description

239 p. : ill., map; 21 x 21 cm.

Summary

"Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art celebrates the centennial of Mount Robson Provincial Park with over a century of remarkable landscape paintings inspired by the Robson region in the Canadian Rockies. This volume includes an extensive Introduction with historical and cultural background to the 50 colour plates, all documented and described, illustrating artists' works in a variety of styles and media from 1907-2012. Early artists include A.P. Coleman, the first explorer, and Group of Seven members A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris. In addition, the works of 17 contemporary artists show that the Mount Robson area continues to stimulate landscape art up to the present. Only 10 of the images have been published before."--

Subject

• Artists > British Columbia
• Landscape painting, Canadian > British Columbia > 20th century
• Mount Robson Provincial Park (B.C.) > In art
• Mount Robson Provincial Park (B.C.) > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Art
• Pictorial works
• Art.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mount Robson: roof of the Rockies -- Mount Robson's natural wonders -- Mount Robson, a weather maker -- Mount Robson: inspiration for artists -- The mystery of Mount Robson's name -- Early tourists in the Yellowhead Valley -- A.P. Coleman: explorer, geologist and artist -- Mary Schäffer: artist and explorer -- George Kinney's heroic struggle -- British expedition to Mount Robson, 1909 -- Mumm returns to Robson with J.N. Collie, 1910 and 1911 -- Alpine Club of Canada's expedition to Mount Robson, 1911 -- ACC Mount Robson camp, 1913 -- Conrad Kain's ascent of Mount Robson -- Railway artists: John William Beatty and A.Y. Jackson -- A.Y. Jackson: "Mountains were not in my line" -- William Johnstone: sketching at Mount Robson, 1918 -- A.Y. Jackson returns to the Rockies, 1924 -- Lawren Harris: his discovery of spiritual wealth in the mountains -- Margaret Lougheed: artist for Parks Canada -- Artists and climbers: the faces of Mount Robson -- Contemporary artists associated with Mount Robson.

ISBN

• 9781927330609 (pbk.)
• 1927330602 (pbk.)
• 9781927330739 (bound)
• 1927330734 (bound)

OCLC

• 827073004
• SCSB-11542204

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library