CAPE NORTH PEINT PAR JOSEPH SYDNEY HALLAM

JOSEPH SYDNEY HALLAM (1898-1953)
Cape North (532m)
Canada (Nouvelle-Ecosse)

In Cape Breton Harbour, 1950, huile sur toile puis sérigraphie, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa

Le relief
Cape North (532m) est un promontoire situé à l'extrémité nord-est de l'île du Cap-Breton situé dans le comté de Victoria, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada. Cape North contient les reliefs de Pollett's Cove Wilkie Sugar Loaf et Aspy Fault ainsi que les zones non constituées en société de South Harbor et Dingwall. Les Miꞌkmaq l'appelaient Uktutuncok, ce qui signifie « la plus haute montagne ». On prétend que le Cap Nord a été la « prema tiersa vista » (première terre vue) par l'explorateur John Cabot. Malgré la polémique toujours en cours, l'événement est commémoré par le parc provincial Cabots Landing . Le phare de Cape North a été construit en 1874 avec une balis anti brouillard ajoutée en 1906. Il a été supprimé en 1989 et remplacé par une balise électronique en 2010.

Le peintre
Joseph Sydney Hallam est né à Manchester, en Angleterre, et a déménagé au Canada avec sa famille à l'âge de 12 ans. J.S. Hallam a étudié l'art à la Hamilton Technical School, à la Toronto Central Technical School et à l'Ontario College of Art, sous l'enseignement de J.W. Beatty.
En 1921, il travaille pour l'imprimerie torontoise Sampson-Matthews Ltd. Cette collaboration perdura pendant des années et plusieurs J.S. Les peintures Hallam ont été reproduites sous forme de sérigraphies par Sampson-Matthews entre 1942 et 1953.
Les peintures qu'il a réalisées représentant des sites et des villages historiques canadiens ont été exposées à l'Exposition nationale canadienne et reproduites dans le magazine Canadian Homes and Gardens.
Dans les années 1930, l’artiste travaille l’aquarelle et est membre de la Société canadienne des aquarellistes. Il était également membre de la Société des artistes de l'Ontario (en tant que président en 1948) et du prestigieux Arts and Letters Club de Toronto.
J.S. Hallam fut également un collègue de Franklin Carmichael, membre du Groupe des Sept, chez Sampson-Matthews.
J.S. Hallam se considérait avant tout comme un illustrateur publicitaire et a laissé sa marque dans ce domaine. Au cours des années 1940, en plus de travailler à Sampson-Matthews, il enseigne le soir à l'Ontario College of Art. Il devient membre associé de l'Académie royale canadienne en 1943 et membre à part entière en 1950.
J.S. Les peintures de Hallam représentent souvent des scènes simples, montrant des ports en Nouvelle-Écosse, des fermes au Québec, des routes secondaires en Ontario, des gens nageant sous de petites chutes, des églises, des lacs et des bois d’automne.
J.S. Hallam est décédé en 1953 à l'âge de 55 ans.
Œuvres de J.S. Hallam sont détenus par le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, le Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario, l'Art Museum of London, en Ontario, la reine Elizabeth II et d'autres prestigieuses collections privées.
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2011-2024 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
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LE MONT GEIKIE PEINT PAR LAWREN HARRIS

LAWREN HARRIS (1885-1970)
Mont Geikie (3,298 m )
Canada (Colombie Britannique)

In Mountain, Tonquin Valley, Jasper, Huile sur toile, 1924 26.7 x 35.6 cm

 
La montagne
Le mont Geikie (3 298 m))  prononcé comme « geeky » , est un sommet situé dans le parc provincial du mont Robson en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada. Situé à 28 km (17 mi) au sud-ouest de Jasper , près de la vallée de Tonquin, le mont Geikie est le plus haut sommet des Remparts dans les Rocheuses canadiennes, l'une des plus belles chaines de montagnes au monde. Son sommet le plus proche est le mont Frase , à 8,0 km au sud-est, et la ligne de partage des eaux continentales se trouve à 3,0 km à l'est. Le mont Geikie est composé de quartzite de la période cambrienne. Cette roche a été poussée vers l'est et au-dessus d'une roche plus jeune au cours de l' orogenèse du Laramide. La paroi verticale de sa face nord mesure plus de 1 500 mètres  de hauteur et a été comparée aux autres grandes faces nord des Rocheuses canadiennes telles que North Twin, Alberta et Kitchener.
Le mont Geikie a été nommé en 1898 par JE McEvoy de la Commission géologique du Canada en l'honneur du géologue écossais Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), qui fut directeur général de la British Geological Survey de 1882 à 190. La montagne a été étiquetée sur la carte topographique de 1911 d' Arthur O. Wheeler de la région du mont Robson. Le nom de la montagne a été officiellement adopté en 1951 après approbation par la Commission de toponymie du Canada . [
La première ascension du mont Geikie a été réalisée en 1924 par Val Fynn, MD Geddes et Cyril G. Wates via une route sud-ouest.  La première ascension de la face nord a été réalisée en 1967 par John Hudson et Royal Robbins (classe 5.9 ).  D'autres itinéraires sur la face nord incluent le Lowe/Hannibal  classe 5.10b ) en 1979 par George Lowe et Dean Hannibal,  Hesse-Shilling (5.10) par Mark Hesse et Brad Shilling en août 1994, et Honky Tonquin (VI+ 5.10 A3) par Seth Shaw et Scott Simper en juillet 1999.  La première ascension en solo de la face nord a été réalisée en août 2017 par Tony McLane du Canada. La voie d'escalade normale est la Face Sud-Est (IV, 5.5).

Le peintre
Lawren Harris, est un peintre canadien qui a joué un rôle fondamental dans la création du Groupe des sept, ce cercle de jeunes peintres qui allait bouleverser l'art de la peinture au Canada en quelques années.
Après des études à la Central Technical School et au collège St. Andrew, à Toronto, il part étudier à Berlin où il demeurera de 1904 à 1908. Il s'intéresse alors à la philosophie et plus tard à la théosophie.
En 1911, de retour au pays, il se lie d'amitié avec J. E. H. MacDonald. Ensemble, ils fondent le Groupe des sept. Harris devient le théoricien du groupe de par sa formation universitaire. Il défend les idées du poète irlandais George William Russell sur le rôle social de l'artiste. Un local, le Studio Building, procure à ces artistes un endroit pour vivre et travailler. En 1918 et 1919, Harris finance des voyages pour les artistes du groupe dans la région d'Algoma et au lac Supérieur, en Ontario. Séduit par l'endroit, Harris y retourne annuellement durant plusieurs années. Il développe alors le style qui le caractérise le mieux, couleurs vives et riches appliquées en couches épaisses, technique dite impasto. Harris peint également plusieurs paysages de la baie Géorgienne et plus tard des les montagnes Rocheuses.
Lui et plusieurs membres du groupe, dont Alfred Joseph Casson, Arthur Lismer, A. Y. Jackson et Franklin Carmichael feront partie du Canadian Group of Painters.
En 1969, il est reçu compagnon de l'Ordre du Canada.
Il meurt à Vancouver en 1970, où il s'était installé en 1940.
Lawren Harris est considéré comme un des peintres importants du Canada. Plusieurs de ses œuvres ont atteint des prix supérieurs aux estimations, comme en 2001 où sa toile Baffin Island, estimée à 1 million de dollars, a été adjugée pour la somme de 2,2 millions de dollars, ou encore Mountain Forms qui fut adjugé à 11,21 millions de dollars lors d'une vente aux enchères. Cette toile tient à ce jour le record de vente pour une tabelau canadien.

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2023 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
Un blog de Francis Rousseau 

SIGNAL HILL PEINT PAR ROBERT PILOT

ROBERT PILOT (1898-1967)
Signal Hill (167m- 548 ft)
Canada (Labrador)

In The Narrows- St Johns, Newfoundland, Huile sur toile, 45 x 60, 5 cm, 

Fondation Sobey pour les Arts, Canada

La colline
Signal Hill (167m- 548 ft)  dont le  point culminant est Ladies' Lookout,  est une colline qui surplombe la ville de St. John's, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Canada. Principalement un site historique national, à côté se trouve le musée en grande partie enfoui du Johnson Geo Center et son parc associé. La communauté de The Battery est située sur le versant de la colline surplombant le port. Le 12 décembre 1901, la première transmission sans fil transatlantique a été reçue par Guglielmo Marconi,  Situé sur un emplacement hautement stratégique surplombant le Narrows, la seule entrée du port, les fortifications remontent au milieu du 17e siècle. L'Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador a un campus sur les pentes inférieures, dans l'ancien Battery Hotel, et est également maintenant propriétaire du Johnson Geo Centre.

Le peintre
Robert Wakeham Pilot (MBE, RCA, est un artiste canadien connu comme peintre, graveur et muraliste.En 1910, sa mère, veuve, épouse de l'artiste Maurice Cullen et s'installe dans la maison de Cullen à Montréal avec lequel il commence à étudier l'art.  Il étudie ensuite  à Montréal avec William Brymner puis, en mars 1916, il s'enrôle dans l’armée. De 1920 à 1922, il étudie à l'Académie Julian à Paris. En 1922, il expose au Salon de Paris. Son travail  subit des influences impressionnistes. À son retour au Canada, il est élu membre associé de l'Académie royale des arts du Canada en 1925 et occupe le poste de président de l'Académie de 1952 à 1954. Sa première exposition personnelle eut lieu en 1927, chez Watson Art Galleries. Il remporte le prix Jessie Dow cette année-là ainsi qu'en 1934 Voyageant abondamment en Europe, mais aussi au Québec il cultive une vision relativement nostalgique du paysage urbain ou rural, dans lequel il camoufle le plus souvent les témoignages visuels d’une modernisation du territoire. En 1941,  il s'enrôlé de nouveau et participe à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en tant que capitaine dans le régiment des Black Watch. Son rôle pendant ce conflit lui vaut la médaille du couronnement de la reine Élisabeth II en 1953.  Les peintures de Pilot ont été présentées à Winston Churchill, à la reine Élisabeth II et au duc d’Édimbourg. D'autres se retrouvent dans la collection du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada et du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.Une exposition rétrospective de son œuvre, eut lieu au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal en 1969.

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2022 - Wandering Vertexes ....
            Errant au-dessus des Sommets Silencieux...
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MONT GEIKIE & LES REMPARTS PEINTS PAR LAWREN HARRIS

 

 LAWREN S. HARRIS (1885-1970)

Mont Geikie  - Les Remparts (3,298 m - 10, 820 ft)
Canada (Colombie-Britannique)

 

 In The Ramparts Tonquin Valley, Rocky Mountains huile sur panneau, 27,1x37,5cm, 

Fondation Sobey pour les Arts, Canada 

La montagne 

Le mont Geikie  (3,298 m - 10, 820 ft), prononcé comme " geek ", est un sommet montagneux situé en Colombie-Britannique au Canada. Situé à 28 km au sud-ouest de Jasper près de la vallée de Tonquin, le mont Geikie est le plus haut sommet de la chaine des  Remparts (Ramparts) dans les Rocheuses canadiennes, l'une des plus belles destinations de montagne au monde. Son sommet le plus élevé le plus proche est le mont Fraser à 8 km au sud-est ; le Continental Divide se trouve à 3 km à l'est.  Le mont Geikie est composé de quartzite de la période cambrienne, une  roche poussée vers l'est  au-dessus d'une roche plus jeune au cours de l'orogenèse Laramide.  Le mur vertical de sa face nord mesure plus de 1 500 mètresde haut et a été comparé aux autres grandes faces nord des Rocheuses canadiennes telles que North Twin, Alberta et Kitchener. Les  Remparts se trouvent en partie dans le Parc national de Jasper en Alberta et dans le parc provincial du mont Robson en Colombie-Britannique. 10 sommets font partie de cette chaine, dont le plus élevé est le mont Geikie  La plupart ont été nommés par le Club alpin du Canada et portent des noms sur le thème du génie militaire tels que Bastion, Parapet, Redoute et Dungeon.  Ils forment la limite ouest de la vallée de Tonquin. 

 
Le peintre
Lawren S. Harris  est né à Brantford, en Ontario, en 1885. La famille Harris a fondé l’entreprise de machinerie agricole Massey-Harris (aujourd'hui Massey Ferguson). C'est assez dire que les activités artistiques de Harris ne connaîtront jamais d’obstacle financier !  Dès l’enfance, il commence à dessiner et à peindre à l’aquarelle, puis il se rend à Berlin en 1904 pour y faire des études en arts. Harris devient un adepte de la philosophie théosophique, une interprétation mystique de la doctrine religieuse, qui joua un rôle déterminant dans sa vie et dans son oeuvre. Le style impressionniste de Harris utilise des couleurs riches et vives pour illustrer les thèmes récurrents de la beauté de la nature. Au fil des ans, son style évolue vers l’abstraction. Après avoir parcouru l’Europe et le Moyen-Orient, Harris revient au Canada à l’âge de 22 ans et s’établit à Toronto. Il s’investit activement dans l’Arts and Letters Club de Toronto, où il rencontre les autres membres du futur Groupe des Sept et partage avec eux les philosophies artistiques modernes qu’il rapporte de l’étranger. En 1913, de concert avec le Dr James McCallum, il finance la construction du Studio Building, sur la rue Severn, à Toronto, pour offrir à ces artistes un endroit où ils peuvent vivre et travailler ensemble, afin de créer un nouveau genre d’art canadien. Harris finance aussi de nombreux voyages à Algoma, en Ontario, et est considéré comme responsable de la formation officielle du Groupe des Sept. Il meurt en 1970.

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2022 - Wandering Vertexes ....
            Errant au-dessus des Sommets Silencieux...
            Un blog de Francis Rousseau

 

MOUNT COLEMAN PAINTED BY ARTHUR P. COLEMAN

 

ARTHUR P. COLEMAN (1852-1939)
Mount Coleman (3,135 m-10,285 ft)
Canada (Alberta) 

 In  "Mountain un the Canadian rockies"

The mountain
Mount Coleman (3,135 m-10,285 ft) mountain summit located in the upper North Saskatchewan River valley in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Cirrus Mountain, 4.46 km (2.77 mi) to the north.  Mount Coleman is situated along the east side the Icefields Parkway midway between Saskatchewan Crossing and Sunwapta Pass.
Mount Coleman was named in 1898 after Arthur Philemon Coleman (1852-1939), a Canadian geologist and among the first white men to explore the area that is now Jasper National Park.(see below). Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Coleman is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.  Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Coleman is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.  Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C. Precipitation runoff from Mount Coleman drains into tributaries of the North Saskatchewan River.

The painter
Arthur Philemon Coleman was a Canadian a geologist, professor, minerals prospector, artist, Rockies explorer, backwoods canoeist, world traveller, scientist, popular lecturer, museum administrator, memoirist and... one of Canada’s most beloved scientist.
Arthur Coleman is a fine example of that rare bird, a polished amateur artist whose drawings and paintings stand comfortably beside those of many professionals. He was active during the time when sketching and painting was ceding to photography the task of recording the visible world. Although he was also a photographer, painting was, for him, both a poetic and a descriptive pursuit, a way of wrapping an artistic expression around a phenomenon he was interested in or moved by. Thus motivated, Coleman's paintings give much joy and command a good deal of respect. The more surprising, perhaps given that he used to introduced himself more as a geologist than a painter.
Coleman travelled throughout the United States for professional conferences as well as geological field work. He visited many of the major American mountain ranges including: the American Cordillera Mountains (Washington, Oregon and California); the Sierra Nevada Mountains (California and Nevada); Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Montana and Idaho); and the Appalachian Mountains (eastern United States). Pleistocene glaciation had extended in Northern Europe as far south as Berlin and London and covered an area of two million square miles. Coleman also visited such countries as India, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Scandinavia, Bolivia, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay. In his final years he made two expeditions to the Andes in Colombia, to mountains in Southern Mexico and to two mountains in Central America. He achieved the first ascent of Castle Mountain in 1884, and in 1907, he was the first white man to attempt to climb Mount Robson. He made a total of eight exploratory trips to the Canadian Rockies, wholly four of them looking for the mythical giants of Hooker and Brown.
From 1901 to 1922, he was a Professor of Geology at the University of Toronto and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1919 to 1922. From 1931 to 1934, he was a geologist with the Department of Mines of the Government of Ontario. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1900 and was its President in 1921. In 1929, he was appointed Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
"Mount Coleman" and "Coleman Glacier" in Banff National Park is named in his honor. He was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1936.
He planned to climb "his" mountain, "Mount Coleman"'in the Albertan Rockies, and had also prepared a trip to British Guiana, but death intervened.
He was author of:
- Reports on the Economic Geology of Ontario (1903)
- Lake Ojibway; Last of the Great Glacial Lakes (1909)
- The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails (1911)
- Ice Ages, Recent and Ancient (1926), and was co-author of Elementary Geology (1922).
- The Last Million Years (1941) edited by George F. Kay

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2022 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MONT RAOUL BLANCHARD (LAURENTIDES) PAINTED BY ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON

ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON (1882-1974)
Mont Raoul Blanchard (1,166 m -3,825 ft)
Canada (Québec)

In "Jour gris, Laurentides", huile sur toile, 1931, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

The mountain
Mount Raoul Blanchard  (1,166 m -3,825 ft) is the highest peak in the Laurentians and the eighth highest in Quebec. It is located 64 km northeast of Quebec and 19 km north of Saint-Tite-des-Caps. The mount bears the name of the French geographer Raoul Blanchard (1877-1965), academician, specialist of the Alps, but also of Quebec. It is to pay homage to this illustrious geographer that the Geographical Commission designated this mountain in 1971. This mountain is located on the seigneury of Beaupré, a private domain held by the seminary of Quebec, and is thus inaccessible without the right of access

La montagne
Le mont Raoul-Blanchard (1,166 m -3,825 ft) est le plus haut sommet des Laurentides et le huitième plus haut au Québec  Il est situé à 64 km au nord-est de Québec et à 19 km au nord de Saint-Tite-des-Caps.  Le mont porte le nom du géographe français Raoul Blanchard (1877-1965), académicien, spécialiste des Alpes, mais aussi du Québec. C’est pour rendre hommage à cet illustre géographe que la Commission de géographie a désigné ce mont en 1971^. Cette montagne est située sur la seigneurie de Beaupré, un domaine privé détenu par le séminaire de Québec, et est ainsi inaccessible sans droit d'accès.

The painter
Alexander Young Jackson was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto.  He exhibited with the Group of Seven from 1920. In addition to his work with the Group of Seven, his long career included serving as a War Artist during World War I (1917–19) and teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

Le peintre
Alexander Young Jackson, est un peintre canadien et un membre fondateur du Groupe des Sept. Ses œuvres ont été exposées à la Galerie L'Art français. Après que son père ait abandonné sa famille de six enfants, il travaille, encore tout jeune, comme garçon de bureau dans une entreprise de lithographie, où il assimile une solide formation artistique. Le soir, il suit des cours en arts qui sont alors donnés au Monument-National de Montréal. C'est après la guerre,que Jackson  organise des expéditions pour peindre le fleuve Saint-Laurent, le Nord canadien, le bouclier canadien (Les Laurentides ci-dessus) et plusieurs régions de la Colombie-Britannique et de l'Alberta En 1919, Jackson et six amis peintres fondent le Groupe des Sept. Bien que le nom de Jackson soit couramment associé à ce groupe, il reste un artiste relativement solitaire pendant toute sa vie, évitant notamment les manifestations mondaines.
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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

ODORAY MOUNTAIN PAINTED BY J.E.H. MACDONALD

J.E.H. MACDONALD (1873-1932)
Odoray mountain (3,137 m- 10,292 ft)
Canada (British Columbia)

In Mont Odoray, 1930, Huile sur carton, 21,6 x 26,7cm, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa

The mountain
Odaray Mountain (3,137-m - 10,292 ft) is a summit located west of Lake O'Hara in the Bow Range of Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Huber, 3.86 km (2.40 mi) to the east. The standard climbing route follows the southeast glacier and ridge starting from Elizabeth Parker hut. Pronunciation sounds like the two words "ode array". Odaray Mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1887 by James J. McArthur, and he named it Odaray which is the expression for "many waterfalls" in the Stoney language. Other reports have it being named in 1894 by Samuel Evans Stokes Allen for the Stoney Indianword for "cone". However, it is possible that McArthur only ascended the lesser secondary summit cone (2965 m) now known as Little Odaray which is southeast of the true summit. The mountain's current name became official in 1952 when the Geographical Names Board of Canada rescinded the name Mount Odaray.

The artist
James Edward Hervey MacDonald RCA was an English-Canadian artist who initiated the first major Canadian national art movement. He was the father of the illustrator Thoreau MacDonald. n 1895, MacDonald took a position as a commercial designer at Grip Ltd, an important commercial art firm, where he further developed his design skills. In the coming years, he encouraged his colleagues—including future artist Tom Thomson—to develop their skills as painters. In 1920, MacDonald co-founded the Group of Seven, which dedicated itself to promoting a distinct Canadian art developed through direct contact with the Canadian landscape. The other founding members were Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, and Franklin Carmichael. MacDonald had worked with Lismer, Varley, Johnston, and Carmichael at the design firm Grip Ltd. in Toronto. Together they initiated the first major Canadian national art movement, producing paintings directly inspired by the Canadian landscape. Every summer beginning in 1924, MacDonald travelled to the Canadian Rockies to paint the mountainous landscapes that dominated his later work. By this time he had become somewhat alienated from the rest of the Group of Seven, as many of the younger members were beginning to paint in a more abstract manner.  Today, MacDonald is viewed with general admiration for his art, with one writer commenting, "no Canadian landscape painter possessed a richer command of colour and pigment than J. E. H. MacDonald ... His brushwork is at once disciplined and vigorous. His best on-the-spot sketches possess an intensity and freshness of execution not dissimilar from Van Gogh."

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT HUBER PAINTED BY ROBERT GENN

ROBERT GENN (1936-2014)
Mount Huber (3,348 m - 10,984 ft)
Canada (British Columbia)

 In  Chinook over O' Hara, oil on canvas, 1970, Private collection  

The mountain
Mount Huber (3,348 m - 10,984 ft) summit located two kilometers east of Lake O'Hara in the Bow Range of Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Victoria, 1.0 km (0.62 mi) to the north-northeast. Mount Huber is a secondary summit of Mount Victoria which is on the Continental Divide. Named in 1903 by Samuel Allen for Emil Huber, a Swiss climber, who, with Carl Sulzer, were first to climb Mount Sir Donald in the Selkirk Mountains. The first ascent of the Mount Huber was made in 1903 by George Collier, E. Tewes, Christian Bohren, and Christian Kaufmann. The mountain's name became official in 1924 when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada. Mount Huber is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Huber is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers ] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. Precipitation runoff from Mount Huber drains into tributaries of the Kicking Horse River which is a tributary of the Columbia River.

The painter
Robert Douglas Genn was a Canadian artist, who has gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. His work is in corporate and public collections, including Air Canada, Bank Of Montreal, Canadian General Insurance, Canadian Airlines, Canadian Utilities, The Churchill Corporation, Expo '86, Esso Resources, First City - California II, Highfield Oil & Gas, Molson Brewery Ltd., Montreal Trust, Shell Resources, University of Alberta, Westgate Chevrolet, Glenbow Museum and Government of Belgium.
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Genn has often been compared with members of the 1920s Canadian Group of Seven. In 1961, he met Lawren Harris who was a neighbour in Point Grey, Vancouver. Genn had problems with painting skies, and Harris's advice was to turn the picture upside-down: "Paint down from the trees to the clouds at the bottom of the picture to get the perspective right." Genn said this was "valuable advice", which enabled him "to control the gradation, and work up into the trees in a more abstract manner."
He ran the Painter's Keys web site, a worldwide artists' community, with his staff and volunteers. The web site sends out an erudite free twice-weekly newsletter, which is sent to 135,000 artists in over 100 countries, and claims the largest collection of art quotes online with over 5,382 authors quoted.
In 2005, Genn campaigned against the Chinese website, arch-world.com, which was selling thousands of high-resolution images of around 2,800 artists' work illegally, without permission. After failing to gain support from the Canadian government or the African embassy in Ottawa, Genn used his web site to enlist subscribers' support to email objections to the arch-world, resulting within days in over 1,000 online complaints from artists, dealers and politicians to the company and governments. This stimulated a diplomatic protest letter to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, Trading and Law Department from the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. Genn credited the campaign with the subsequent removal of images by 800 Canadian artists from arch-world, although many works were reinstated on arch-world soon after.
Genn has been a member of the Board of Directors at Emily Carr College of Art & Design.
Genn announced in his Twice-Weekly Letter of 25 October 2013 that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died at his Surrey, British Columbia home on 27 May 2014.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

 

MOUNT BURKE & BAY OF ISLANDS PAINTED BY FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL

FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL (1890–1945)
Mount Burke (1,270 m  - 4,167 ft)
Canada (British Columbia)

In Bay of Islands from Mt. Burke, 1931, oil on canvas, 101.6 x 122.0 cm, 

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

The mountain
Mount Burke (1,270 m (4,167 ft), is a mountain located in northeast Coquitlam, British Columbia, north of Port Coquitlam on the ridge system leading to Coquitlam Mountain. Most of the mountain is part of Pinecone Burke Provincial Park.   Mount Burke was named for Edmund Burke by Captain George Henry Richards of HMS Plumper while surveying Burrard Inlet in 1859.
The mountain was placed in Pinecone Burke Provincial Park on the park's creation in 1995.
Many people confuse Mount Burke, with the much higher and larger Burke Ridge, which is more commonly known as Burke Mountain, and in the 1920s Burke Ridge was more commonly known as Dollar Mountain, after the Canadian Robert Dollar Company, who logged the lower portions of the mountain.

The artist
Franklin Carmichael was a Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven. Though he was primarily famous for his use of watercolours, he also used oil paints, charcoal and other media to capture the Ontario landscapes of which he was fond. Besides his work as a painter, he worked as a designer and illustrator, creating promotional brochures, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and stylizing books. Near the end of his life, Carmichael taught in the Graphic Design and Commercial Art Department at the Ontario College of Art (today the Ontario College of Art and Design). The youngest original member of the Group of Seven, Carmichael often found himself socially on the outside of the group. Despite this, the art he produced was of equal measure in terms of style and approach to the other members' contributions, vividly expressing his spiritual views through his art.  Carmichael was a passionate landscape painter. Many of his paintings depict the trees, rocks, hills, and mountains of Ontario. His earlier works had flat juxtapositions of colour, but as he matured through the 1920s he emphasized depth and three dimensional space. Beyond simple representation of picturesque views, Carmichael attempted to capture contrast.  Contemporary Emily Carr wrote that Carmichael's work was, "A little pretty and too soft, but pleasant."Carmichael was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.  In 1952, Dr. Ann Curtin and Carmichael's widow founded the Franklin Carmichael Art Group, now located at 34 Riverdale Drive in Toronto.


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2021 - Wandering Vertexes / Mountain paintings
By F rancis Rousseau

MOUNT NIBLOCK, MOUNT TEMPLE, MOUNT WHYTE BY ALBERT BIERSTADT

 

ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Mount Niblock (2,976 m - 9,764 ft)
Mount Temple (3,544 m -11,627 ft) 
Mount Whyte (2,983 m -9,787 ft) 
Canada ( Alberta)

In Canadian Rockies (Lake Louise), ca. 1889, oil on paper mounted to board, 37.5 x 53.3cm, The MET, not on view 

About the painting
During his travels in the American and Canadian West, Bierstadt made oil sketches such as this one, which he used, back in his New York studio, for reference in concocting the huge, carefully detailed panoramic scenes that brought him critical acclaim during the 1860s and 1870s. By the end of the century, American viewers had come to appreciate the more modest landscape observations of Barbizon and Impressionist painters, and Bierstadt’s sketches were themselves valued as fresh, direct records of the places he had visited.
Extract of the Notice of the MET museum

The mountains 
Mount Niblock (2,976 m (9,764 ft) (first on left in the painting  above)  is a mountain in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. The mountain was named in 1904 after John Niblock, a superintendent with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Niblock was an early promoter of tourism in the Rockies and influenced the naming of some of the CPR stops in Western Canada.
Mount Temple (3,544 m - 11,627 ft)  (in the middle of the painting above) is located in the Bow River Valley between Paradise Creek and Moraine Creek and is the highest peak in the Lake Louisea rea. The peak dominates the western landscape along the Trans-Canada Highway from Castle Junction to Lake Louise. The mountain was named by George Mercer Dawson in 1884 after Sir Richard Temple who visited the Canadian Rockies that same year. Mt. Temple was the first 11,000-foot (3,400 m) peak to be climbed in the Canadian segment of the Rocky Mountains. First Ascent of a peak above 11,000 feet (3,353 m) in the Canadian Rockieso was made  August 17, 1894 by Walter D. Wilcox, Samuel E. S. Allen and Lewis Frissell .
Mount Whyte (2,983 m -9,787 ft)  (at the background of the painting above) is a mountain in Alberta, Canada located in Banff National Park, near Lake Louise. The mountain can be seen from the Trans-Canada Highway, and offers views of the Valley of the Ten Peaks, including the Chateau Lake Louise. The mountain was named in 1898 by Sir William Methuen after William Whyte, a representative of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mount.Whyte is usually combined with  Mount Niblock when done as a scramble. However, while Mt. Niblock is rated a moderate scramble, Mt. Whyte is much more difficult due to additional exposure and loose rock. The scramble should not be attempted in snowy conditions due to considerable fall distance which would likely prove fatal.

The painter
Albert Bierstadt was a German-born American painter. He was brought to the United States at the age of one by his parents. He later returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. At an early age Bierstadt developed a taste for art and made clever crayon sketches in his youth.
In 1851, he began to paint in oils. He became part of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along this scenic river. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. An important interpreter of the western landscape, Bierstadt, along with Thomas Moran, is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.
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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

THE TEN PEAKS PAINTED BY CHARLES PARTRIDGE ADAMS

CHARLES PARTRIDGE ADAMS (1858 -1942)
The Ten peaks ( (3,424m- 11,234ft)
Canada (Alberta)

In Moraine Lake and Peaks, oil on canvas

The mountains
Valley of the Ten Peaks (Vallée des Dix Pics) is a valley in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, which is crowned by ten notable peaks and also includes Moraine Lake. The valley can be reached by following the Moraine Lake road near Lake Louise. The ten peaks were originally named by Samuel Allen, an early explorer of the region, who simply referred to them by using the numerals from one to ten in the Stoney First Nations Language. He may have learned the terms from his Native American guides, who helped him with the horses. The Nakoda–also known as the Stoney Indians–is a tribe whose culture and dialect are closely related to that of the Assiniboine First Nation, from whom they are believed to have separated in the mid-1700s, and who roamed large parts of the prairies and mountains of western Alberta well into British Columbia. The secluded Valley of the Ten Peaks was part of their original homeland. Gradually, though, all but three of the mountains were renamed in honour of noteworthy individuals, including Allen himself.
Mount Hungabee was not included in the original peak list by Allen, even though it is higher than Wenkchemna Peak, the latter of which is really an extension of Hungabee.
The ten peaks, in order of how they are numbered from east to west, are:
Mount Fay /Heejee (3,235m-10,613ft); Mount Little /Num (3,088m- 10,131ft); Mount Bowlen / Yamnee (3,072m- 10,079ft); Tonsa (3,057m/ 10,030ft); Mount Perren / Sapta (3,051m- 10,010ft); Mount Allen / Shappee 3,310m- 10,860ft); Mount Tuzo / Shagowa (3,246m- 10,650ft); Deltaform Mountain/ Shakhnowa (3,424m- 11,234ft); Neptuak Mountain (3,233m- 10,607ft); Wenkchemna Peak (3,170m-10,401 ft)

The painter
Charles Partridge Adams was a largely self-taught American landscape artist who painted primarily in Colorado, and secondarily in California. Some paintings were also made in other Rocky Mountain states, the Pacific Northwest and Canada, and a few in Louisiana, the East Coast and Europe.
Adams is widely considered to have been Colorado’s finest landscape artist. He is best known for his stunning views of snowy mountain peaks in early morning or sunset light, or wreathed in storm clouds, and for his luminous sunset and twilight paintings of the river bottoms near Denver. His works show an intensely personal and poetic response to the Colorado mountains and plains, with unusual sensitivity to the changing effects of light, atmosphere and season.
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2020 - Wandering Vertexes..
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT CAUBVICK/ MONT D'IBERVILLE PAINTED BY ARTHUR P. COLEMAN

 

 

ARTHUR P. COLEMAN (1852-1939)

Mount Caubvick / Mont D'Iberville (1,652 m -5,420 ft) 

Canada (Labrador /Quebec border) 

In Mountains South of Nakvak, Labrador; oil on canvas, 1910, Private collection

The mountain 
Mount Caubvick / Mont D'Iberville (1,652 m -5,420 ft)  is a mountain located in Canada on the border between Labrador and Quebec in the Selamiut Range of the Torngat Mountains. Mount Caubvick is the highest point in mainland Canada east of the Rockies. The mountain contains a massive peak that rises sharply from nearby sea level. Craggy ridges, steep cirques and glaciers are prominent features of the peak.
The alp was named Mont d'Iberville by the Quebec government in 1971. It remained nameless on the Labrador side for several years; it became known unofficially as L1, L for Labrador and 1 for highest. In 1981, at the suggestion of Dr. Peter Neary, the provincial government named the mountain after Caubvick, one of the five Inuit who accompanied George Cartwright to England in 1772.
Mount Caubvick also hosts the highest point in both the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec, although the summit itself lies about 10 metres (33 ft) northeast of the Quebec provincial border and is entirely within Labrador.

The painter
Arthur Philemon Coleman was a Canadian a geologist, professor, minerals prospector, artist, Rockies explorer, backwoods canoeist, world traveller, scientist, popular lecturer, museum administrator, memoirist and... one of Canada’s most beloved scientist.
Arthur Coleman is a fine example of that rare bird, a polished amateur artist whose drawings and paintings stand comfortably beside those of many professionals. He was active during the time when sketching and painting was ceding to photography the task of recording the visible world. Although he was also a photographer, painting was, for him, both a poetic and a descriptive pursuit, a way of wrapping an artistic expression around a phenomenon he was interested in or moved by. Thus motivated, Coleman's paintings give much joy and command a good deal of respect. The more surprising, perhaps given that he used to introduced himself more as a geologist than a painter.
Coleman travelled throughout the United States for professional conferences as well as geological field work. He visited many of the major American mountain ranges including: the American Cordillera Mountains (Washington, Oregon and California); the Sierra Nevada Mountains (California and Nevada); Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Montana and Idaho); and the Appalachian Mountains (eastern United States). Pleistocene glaciation had extended in Northern Europe as far south as Berlin and London and covered an area of two million square miles. Coleman also visited such countries as India, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Scandinavia, Bolivia, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay. In his final years he made two expeditions to the Andes in Colombia, to mountains in Southern Mexico and to two mountains in Central America. He achieved the first ascent of Castle Mountain in 1884, and in 1907, he was the first white man to attempt to climb Mount Robson. He made a total of eight exploratory trips to the Canadian Rockies, wholly four of them looking for the mythical giants of Hooker and Brown.
"Mount Coleman" and "Coleman Glacier" in Banff National Park are named in his honor.
He was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1936.

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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT MANSFIELD (2) BY SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD

 

SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
Mount Mansfield (1,340 m - 4,395 ft)
United States of America (Vermont) - Canada border

In A Sketch of Mansfield Mountain, 1858,  Private collection 

About the painting 
One can be amused by the similarities betwee the painting above and the one painted by an other fmous Husdon  River School painter, Jerome B. Thompson,  made the same year, at the same season and at exactly the same place. One can suspects Sanford R.Gifford is depiected in the Jerome B. Thompson 's painting and  Jerome B. Thompson in the Sanford R. Gifford 's one ! 

The mountain
Mount Mansfield (1,340 m - 4,395 ft) is the highest mountain in Vermont. The summit is located within the town of Underhill in Chittenden County; the ridgeline, including some secondary peaks, extends into the town of Stowe in Lamoille County, and the mountain's flanks also reach into the town of Cambridge. When viewed from the east or west, this mountain has the appearance of a (quite elongated) human profile, with distinct forehead, nose, lips, chin, and Adam's apple. These features are most distinct when viewed from the east; unlike most human faces, the chin is the highest point
Mount Mansfield is one of three spots in Vermont where true alpine tundra survives from the Ice Ages. A few acres exist on Camel's Hump and Mount Abraham nearby and to the south, but Mount Mansfield's summit still holds about 200 acres (81 ha). In 1980, Mount Mansfield Natural Area was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service.
Located in Mount Mansfield State Forest, the mountain is used for various recreational and commercial purposes. "The Nose" is home to transmitter towers for a number of regional radio and TV stations. [There are many hiking trails, including the Long Trail, which traverses the main ridgeline. In addition, the east flank of the mountain is used by the Stowe Mountain Resort for winter skiing. A popular tourist activity is to take the toll road (about 4 miles (6.4 km), steep, mostly unpaved, with several hairpin turns) from the Stowe Base Lodge to "The Nose" and hike along the ridge to "The Chin."

The painter
Sanford Robinson Gifford was born in Greenfield, New York and spent his childhood in Hudson, New York, the son of an iron foundry owner. He attended Brown University 1842-44, before leaving to study art in New York City in 1845. He studied drawing, perspective and anatomy under the direction of the British watercolorist and drawing-master, John Rubens Smith. He also studied the human figure in anatomy classes at the Crosby Street Medical college and took drawing classes at the National Academy of Design. By 1847 he was sufficiently skilled at painting to exhibit his first landscape at the National Academy and was elected an associate in 1851, an academician in 1854. Thereafter Gifford devoted himself to landscape painting, becoming one of the finest artists of the early Hudson River School.
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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT SAINT ELIAS BY CHARLES HAMILTON SMITH

 

CHARLES HAMILTON SMITH (1776-1859)

Mount Saint Elias (5,489 m- 18,008 ft)
United States of America (Alaska) - Canada (Yukon) border

In  Icy Bay & Mount Saint Elias (Alaska,) watercolor and graphite from Views of Polar region- 

Yale Center for British arts 

The mountain
Mount Saint Elias  (5,489 m- 18,008 ft) also designated  as Boundary Peak 186 is the second highest mountain in both Canada and the United States, being situated on the Yukon and Alaska border.
It lies about 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Mount Logan,  the highest mountain in Canada. The Canadian side is part of Kluane National Park and Reserve, while the U.S. side of the mountain is located within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Its name in Tlingit is Yasʼéitʼaa Shaa, meaning "mountain behind Icy Bay", and is occasionally called Shaa Tlein "Big Mountain" by the Yakutat Tlingit. It is one of the most important crests of the Kwaashkʼiḵwáan clan since they used it as a guide during their journey down the Copper River.
The mountain was first sighted by European explorers on July 16, 1741 by Vitus Bering of Russia. While some historians contend that the mountain was named by Bering, others believe that eighteenth century mapmakers named it after Cape Saint Elias, when it was left unnamed by Bering.
Mount Saint Elias is notable for its immense vertical relief vertically in just 10 miles (16 km) horizontal distance from the head of Taan Fjord, off of Icy Bay.

The artist 
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith,  was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and... spy as well !. His military career began in 1787, when he studied at the Austrian academy for artillery and engineers at Mechelen and Leuven in Belgium (his native country). Although his military service, which ended in 1820 and included the Napoleonic Wars, saw him travel extensively (including the West Indies, Canada, United States, Southern and Northern Europe and ...Antarctica).
As a prolific self-taught illustrator (over 38,000 drawings!) He left quite an important number of books of  beautifully watercolored landscapes taken all around the world. those nooks of watercolors are nowadays in the collections of  the Yale Center From British Art. Among them  :

- Views of France, Volume I (81 watercolors), Views of France, Volume II (93 watercolors), 

- Views of England and Wales, Volume I (82  watercolors),  Views of England and Wales, Volume II (74  watercolors),

- Views of Northern Europe, Volume I (68watercolors) , Views of Northern Europe, Volume II (78)  watercolors),  

- Views of Polar Regions (75  watercolors) (see above) 

- Views of Spain, Volume I (69 watercolors), Views of Spain, Volume II (72 watercolors), 

But one of his noteworthy achievements was an 1800 experiment to determine which color should be used for military uniforms.  He is also known in military history circles for Costume of the Army of the British Empire, produced towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars and an accurate depiction of contemporary British uniform.

As an antiquarian, he also produced, in collaboration with Samuel Rush Meyrick, Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, 1815, and The Ancient Costume of England, with historical illustrations of medieval knights, ladies, shipsm and battles. 

He also wrote on the history of the Seven Years' War and TheNatural history of dogs.

Quite a productive fellow !

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT MANSFIELD BY SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD

 

SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)

Mount Mansfield (1,340 m - 4,395 ft)

United States of America (Vermont) - Canada border

In Mount Mansfield, Vermont, Oil on canvas, 1859

The mountain
Mount Mansfield (1,340 m - 4,395 ft) is the highest mountain in Vermont. The summit is located within the town of Underhill in Chittenden County; the ridgeline, including some secondary peaks, extends into the town of Stowe in Lamoille County, and the mountain's flanks also reach into the town of Cambridge. When viewed from the east or west, this mountain has the appearance of a (quite elongated) human profile, with distinct forehead, nose, lips, chin, and Adam's apple. These features are most distinct when viewed from the east; unlike most human faces, the chin is the highest point
Mount Mansfield is one of three spots in Vermont where true alpine tundra survives from the Ice Ages. A few acres exist on Camel's Hump and Mount Abraham nearby and to the south, but Mount Mansfield's summit still holds about 200 acres (81 ha). In 1980, Mount Mansfield Natural Area was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service.
Located in Mount Mansfield State Forest, the mountain is used for various recreational and commercial purposes. "The Nose" is home to transmitter towers for a number of regional radio and TV stations. [There are many hiking trails, including the Long Trail, which traverses the main ridgeline. In addition, the east flank of the mountain is used by the Stowe Mountain Resort for winter skiing. A popular tourist activity is to take the toll road (about 4 miles (6.4 km), steep, mostly unpaved, with several hairpin turns) from the Stowe Base Lodge to "The Nose" and hike along the ridge to "The Chin."

The painter 
Sanford Robinson Gifford was born in Greenfield, New York and spent his childhood in Hudson, New York, the son of an iron foundry owner. He attended Brown University 1842-44, before leaving to study art in New York City in 1845. He studied drawing, perspective and anatomy under the direction of the British watercolorist and drawing-master, John Rubens Smith. He also studied the human figure in anatomy classes at the Crosby Street Medical college and took drawing classes at the National Academy of Design. By 1847 he was sufficiently skilled at painting to exhibit his first landscape at the National Academy and was elected an associate in 1851, an academician in 1854. Thereafter Gifford devoted himself to landscape painting, becoming one of the finest artists of the early Hudson River School.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau  

MOUNT ROBSON BY ARTHUR P. COLEMAN

ARTHUR P. COLEMAN (1852-1939)
Mount Robson (3,954 m - 12, 972 ft) 

Canada (British Columbia)

  In Mount Robson glacier -cutting steps, oil on canvas

The mountain 

Mount Robson (3,954 m - 12, 972 ft) is the most prominent mountain in North America's Rocky Mountain range; it is also the highest point in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain is located entirely within Mount Robson Provincial Park of British Columbia, and is part of the Rainbow Range. Mount Robson is the second highest peak entirely in British Columbia, behind Mount Waddington in the Coast Range. The south face of Mount Robson is clearly visible from the Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16), and is commonly photographed along this route.

Mount Robson was likely named after Colin Robertson, who worked for both the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company at various times in the early 19th century, though there was confusion over the name as many assumed it to have been named for John Robson, an early premier of British Columbia. The Texqakallt, a Secwepemc people and the earliest inhabitants of the area, call it Yuh-hai-has-kun (The Mountain of the Spiral Road). Other unofficial names include Cloud Cap Mountain.

In 1893, five years after the expedition of A.P. Coleman to Athabasca Pass and the final settling of the mistaken elevations of Mt. Hooker and Mt. Brown, Mt. Robson was first surveyed by James McEvoy and determined to be the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. The first documented ascent of Mount Robson, led by the young guide Conrad Kain, at its time the hardest ice face to be climbed on the continent, was achieved during the 1913 annual expedition organized by a large party of Alpine Club of Canada members who made use of the newly completed Grand Trunk Pacific railway to access the area. Prior to 1913, it had been necessary to approach the mountain by pack train from Edmonton or Laggan via Jasper and Lucerne, so only few intrepid explorers had made previous attempts at exploring the mountain. The most famous early ascensionist was the Reverend George Kinney, a founding member of the Alpine Club, who on his twelfth attempt in August 1909 claimed to have reached the summit with local outfitter Donald "Curly" Phillips. A major controversy over this claim and over the implausible nature of his unlikely and dangerous route dominated the discourse within the Alpine Club elite, and he is now generally presumed to have reached the high summit ridge before being turned back at the final ice dome of the peak. Kinney Lake, below the south face, is named in his honour.

The north face of Mount Robson is heavily glaciated and 800 m (2,600 ft) of ice extends from the summit to Berg Glacier. The Berg glacier calves directly into the lake. The Robson Glacier, which fills the cirque and valley between Mount Robson and Mount Resplendent, in the early 1900s fed directly into both Berg lake and Adolphus lake, straddling the Continental Divide and draining thus to both the Arctic and Pacific oceans via the Smoky and Robson Rivers, respectively. It since has receded more than 2 kilometres and is the source of the Robson River only.

The painter 
Arthur Philemon Coleman was a Canadian a geologist, professor, minerals prospector, artist, Rockies explorer, backwoods canoeist, world traveller, scientist, popular lecturer, museum administrator, memoirist and...  one of Canada’s most beloved scientist.
Arthur Coleman is a fine example of that rare bird, a polished amateur artist whose drawings and paintings stand comfortably beside those of many professionals. He was active during the time when sketching and painting was ceding to photography the task of recording the visible world. Although he was also a photographer, painting was, for him, both a poetic and a descriptive pursuit, a way of wrapping an artistic expression around a phenomenon he was interested in or moved by. Thus motivated, Coleman's paintings give much joy and command a good deal of respect. The more surprising, perhaps given that he used to introduced himself more as a geologist than a painter.
Coleman travelled throughout the United States for professional conferences as well as geological field work.  He visited many of the major American mountain ranges including: the American Cordillera Mountains (Washington, Oregon and California); the Sierra Nevada Mountains (California and Nevada); Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Montana and Idaho); and the Appalachian Mountains (eastern United States). Pleistocene glaciation had extended in Northern Europe as far south as Berlin and London and covered an area of two million square miles. Coleman also visited such countries as India, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Scandinavia, Bolivia, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay. In his final years he made two expeditions to the Andes in Colombia, to mountains in Southern Mexico and to two mountains in Central America.  He achieved the first ascent of Castle Mountain in 1884, and in 1907, he was the first white man to attempt to climb Mount Robson. He made a total of eight exploratory trips to the Canadian Rockies, wholly four of them looking for the mythical giants of Hooker and Brown.
 "Mount Coleman" and "Coleman Glacier" in Banff National Park are named in his honor.
He was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1936.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

CHEOPS MOUNTAIN PAINTED BY WILLIAM BRYMMER

WILLIAM BRYMMER (1855-1925) 

Cheops Mountain (2,581m - 8,468ft) 

Canada (Bristish Columbia) 

In Mount Cheops, oil on canvas, 1886,  The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

The mountain
Cheops Mountain (2,581m - 8,468ft)  also known as Mount Kheops is a  summit located in Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Cheops Mountain is situated in the Hermit Range, and the summit provides a good view of the Hermit and Sir Donald Ranges. Its nearest higher peak is Ursus Major Mountain, 4.0 km (2.5 mi) to the northwest.
The mountain's current name was officially adopted in 1951 when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.  Prior to that it was known as Mount Cheops. The peak was named by Otto Julius Klotz for its resemblance to the Pyramid of Cheops.
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Cheops Mountain has a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.
The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1893 by Samuel E. S. Allen and Walter D. Wilcox.
The 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche was the deadliest avalanche in Canadian history, resulting in the deaths of 62 Canadian Pacific Railway workers.  In the late afternoon of March 4, 1910, an avalanche swept down the slopes of Cheops, burying the railroad tracks in snow. The men were working to clear the tracks when shortly before midnight the deadly slide hit, coming from the opposite side of the valley down Avalanche Mountain.

The painter
William Brymner was a Canadian art teacher and a figure and landscape painter. Born in Greenock (Scotland), he moved with his family to Melbourne (Canada East) in 1857. In 1864, his family moved to Montreal. They later lived in the area of Ottawa, where William attended the Ottawa Grammar School. Following architectural studies in enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris (France) in 1878 where his instructors were William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury.  Both of his teachers, in Paris, were famous exponents of 'Grand manner' naturalism. During this period at the Salon he became interested in the work of Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier who was already popular in his country. Brymner specialized in domestic figure scenes and avoided large historical subjects.

In 1886, he settled in Montreal after staying in Paris "on and off for almost seven years".
Many members of the Beaver Hall Group studied under Brymner, who encouraged them to explore new modernistic approaches to painting.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT RUNDLE BY WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS

WALTER JOSEPH  PHILLIPS (1884 -1963) 

Mount Rundle  (2,949 m - 9,675 ft) 

Canada (Alberta) 

 In Mount Rundle as seen from Vermilion Lakes, watercolour on paper,  1945, 33 x 54.6 cm, 

Glenbow Museum, Calgary 

About this painting 

Painter, print-maker and art teacher, Walter Phillips described Mount Rundle as his, " bread and butter mountain. I never tire of painting it, for it is never the same. In deep shadow in the morning, it borrows a warm glow from the setting sun at the end of the day. Its colour runs the gamut from orange to cold blue-grey, with overtones of violet and intervals of green."

The mountain
Mount Rundle  (2,949 m - 9,675 feet) is a mountain in Canada's Banff National Park overlooking the towns of Banff and Canmore, Alberta. The Cree name was Waskahigan Watchi or House Mountain. In 1858 John Palliser renamed the mountain after Reverend Robert Rundle, a Methodist invited by the Hudson's Bay Company to do missionary work in western Canada in the 1840s. He introduced syllabics there a written language developed for the Cree, as part of his missionary work. He only visited the Stoney-Nakoda of the area around what is now called Mount Rundle in 1844 and 1847.
Mt. Rundle could actually be considered a small mountain range as the mountain extends for over 12 kilometres (7.5 mi), on the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway eastward from Banff to Canmore with seven distinct peaks along the way. The Rundle Peaks are part of the South Banff Ranges, along with its siblings—the Sundance Range, Sulphur Mountain and the Goat Range.
Rundle rock or Rundle stone, a natural stone, first quarried on Mount Rundle, is a common dimension stone used in southern Alberta for landscaping and building purposes. It has been used in the construction of the Banff Springs Hotel and several of the Parks Canada buildings. It is fine-grained sandstone dating back to the Triassic Period.

The painter
Walter Joseph Phillips was an English-born Canadian painter and printmaker. He is credited with popularizing the colour woodcut in the style of the Japanese, in Canada.
Phillips is famous for his woodcuts and watercolour sketches. His artistic career spanned from the 1900s through the 1940s, during which time his work was exhibited throughout North America and Great Britain. Common subjects for Phillips included the lakes of Manitoba—York Boat on Lake Winnipeg (1930) is a well-known print—the prairies, and in his later years, the Rocky Mountains, where his ashes were scattered.
In 1940 he was asked to become a resident artist at the Banff Centre, then known as the Banff School of Fine Arts, where he played an important role in the development of their visual arts program.

Its Walter Phillips Gallery, which focuses on contemporary art, is named after him. The Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta holds an extensive collection of Phillips works and a research archive
He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
On 17 February 1997 Canada Post issued 'York Boat on Lake Winnipeg, 1930, Walter J. Phillips' in the Masterpieces of Canadian art series. The stamp was designed by Pierre-Yves Pelletier based on a woodcut "York Boat on Lake Winnipeg" (1930) by Walter Joseph Phillips in the National Gallery of Canada. The 90¢ stamps were printed by Ashton-Potter Canada Limited.

 On May 26, 2010, Phillips' print "Summer Idyll" reached US$30,109 at auction by Heffel Fine Art.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

PIC ISLAND PAINTED BY LAWREN S. HARRIS

LAWREN S. HARRIS (1885-1970) 

Pic Island (312 m- 1024 ft)

Canada (Ontario) 

 In Pic Island, lake Ontario, oil on beaverboard, 1924, National Gallery of Canada.

The hill 
Pic island ((312 m- 1024 ft) is part of the Neys Provincial Park is a Natural Environment Class provincial park on the north shore of Lake Superior, just west of Marathon, Ontario, Canada. The ghost village of Coldwell, which lies just outside the east boundary of the park, was home to an old railway and fishing community until the 1960s. All that remains of the village now are a few foundations, shipwrecks in the harbour and a cemetery. Within park boundaries is also the muse for Group of Seven member Lawren Harris (see above), who in 1924 painted the now famous image of Pic Island. Only the hardy survive here, including subarctic plants and a rare herd of woodland caribou.

The painter
Lawren Stewart Harris was a leading landscape canadian painter, imbuing his paintings with a spiritual dimension. An inspirer of other artists, he was a key figure in the Group of Seven and gave new vision to representations of the northern Canadian landscape. During the 1920s, Harris's works became more abstract and simplified, especially his stark landscapes of the Canadian north and Arctic. He also stopped signing and dating his works so that people would judge his works on their own merit and not by the artist or when they were painted.
In 1924, a sketching trip with A.Y. Jackson to Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies marked the beginning of Harris' mountain subjects, which he continued to explore with annual sketching trips until 1929, exploring areas around Banff National Park, Yoho National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park. In 1930, Harris went on his last extended sketching trip, travelling to the Arctic aboard the supply ship SS. Beothic for two months, during which time he completed over 50 sketches. "We are on the fringe of the great North and its living whiteness, its loneliness and replenishment, its resignations and release, tis call and answer, its cleansing rhythms. It seems that the top of the continent is a source of spiritual flow that will ever shed clarity into the growing race of America."(Lawren S. Harris, 1926)
For Harris, art was to express spiritual values as well as to represent the visible world. North Shore, Lake Superior (1926), an image of a solitary weathered tree stump surrounded by an expanse of dramatically lit sky, effectively evokes the tension between the terrestrial and spiritual.
The resulting Arctic canvases that he developed from the oil panels marked the end of his landscape period, and from 1935 on, Harris enthusiastically embraced abstract painting. Several members of the Group of Seven later became members of the Canadian Group of Painters including Harris, A. J. Casson, Arthur Lismer, A. Y. Jackson, and Franklin Carmichael.
From 1934 to 1937, Harris lived in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he painted his first abstract works, a direction he would continue for the rest of his life. In 1938 he moved to Sante Fe, New Mexico, and helped found the Transcendental Painting Group, an organization of artists who advocated a spiritual form of abstraction.
In 1969, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Harris died in Vancouver in 1970, at the age of 84, as a well-known artist. He was buried on the grounds of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, where his work is now held.
On November 26, 2015 his painting Mountain and Glacier was auctioned for $3.9 million at a Heffel Fine Art Auction House auction in Toronto, breaking the previous record for the sale of one of Harris's works.
In 2016 a film about Harris's life, Where the Universe Sings, was produced by TV Ontario. It was created by filmmaker Peter Raymont and directed by Nancy Lang.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau