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| Title: | Mount Assiniboine
: Images in Art |
| Author: | Jany Lytton Gooch |
| ISBN: | 1894765974 : 9781894765978 |
| Illustrations: | colour & b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 205x205mm |
| Pages: | 152 |
| Weight: | .4 Kg. |
| Published: | Heritage House Publishing (Rocky Mountain Books) - November 2007 |
| List Price: | 18.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Canada: Nature in art; still life; landscapes & seascapes: Climbing & mountaineering |
Highlights a century of landscape art inspired by the Mount Assiniboine area of the Canadian Rockies from 1899 to 2006. The book includes a preface by Robert Sandford and an introduction discussing the history of exploration of the region, early ascents of Mount Assiniboine, the development of tourism, and the significant art this majestic peak has inspired. Illustrations in the introduction include four black-and-white archival photos, along with five colour reproductions of Mary Vaux Walcott's stunning watercolours of wildflowers sketched in the area. The main text presents 42 colour plates illustrating a wide variety of styles and media from 23 artists including A P Coleman, Carl Rungius, James Simpson, Belmore Browne, Barbara and A C Leighton, Catharine and Peter Whyte, W J Phillips and A Y Jackson. Of these, only seven have been previously published. The colour plates are organised into three sections: approaching Assiniboine from the northwest; east of Assiniboine; and Mount Assiniboine itself. Each section is introduced with a black-and-white archival photograph and a quotation. The book concludes with a list of artists, endnotes, a full bibliography and an index.
