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“Looking Away” (2005), a wood block print by Gary Sim, an artist...
“Looking Away” (2005), a wood block print by Gary Sim, an artist I’ve featured twice before here on Illustrated Vancouver. Gary is a friend and cohort in art history, and I’ve often utilized his...
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Illustrations from Gary Sim’s VHS lecture Early Vancouver...
Illustrations from Gary Sim’s VHS lecture Early Vancouver Artists: surviving while being creative. First, a childhood sketch of Kitsilano by Maud Rees Sherman in 1908, updated in 1915, who at the time...
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An accordion view of the book “Views of British Columbia and...
An accordion view of the book “Views of British Columbia and Alaska”, a fantastic little book featuring stone lithographs of the coast published by M.W. (Marshall Wilder) Waitt& Co. in Victoria,...
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On now at ECUAD, Goodbye Charles. From ecuad.ca:The Charles H....
On now at ECUAD, Goodbye Charles. From ecuad.ca:The Charles H. Scott Gallery is proud to present Goodbye Charles, an exhibition that celebrates Charles Hepburn Scott, an artist, educator and our...
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Lower Falls, Lynn Canyon, (North Vancouver) 1914, an oil...
Lower Falls, Lynn Canyon, (North Vancouver) 1914, an oil painting by H.J. (Henry Josiah) Deforest (1855 or 1860-1924) up for auction on eBay over the past few weeks. It’s in Victoria, and at $600 CDN,...
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vancouvertrueborns: David Thompson Secondary students do a...
vancouvertrueborns:David Thompson Secondary students do a final wipe on their 1967, second-floor masterpeice – a futuristic sequel to the tile mosaic that dominates the school’s main lobby and...
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Details from The Silver Treasure Hunt, a comic book produced for...
Details from The Silver Treasure Hunt, a comic book produced for The Canadian Fishing Company Ltd to promote their Gold Seal line. A good friend of mine had the earlier printing of this comic, and I’ve...
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A batch of Julius Dutzi paintings are going up for auction...
A batch of Julius Dutzi paintings are going up for auction tomorrow at 11am (May 31, 2017) at Love’s Auction House in Richmond. I’ve posted the work of Juliuz Dutzi once before with text from the back...
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An artistic impression of an imagined 510 Burrard Street in...
An artistic impression of an imagined 510 Burrard Street in Vancouver from the early 1980s by Wayne Lunan, a building that ultimately become the (new) Montreal Trust Company Building, also known as the...
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Vancouver’s unbuilt public natatorium and concert hall, English...
Competing Natatorium proposal from McCarter & Nairne, illustrated by Edward Thomas Osborn, U of W CollectionVancouver’s unbuilt public natatorium and concert hall, English Bay (Sharp and Thompson,...
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Proposed Store and Sanitary Convenience, drawings for two...
Proposed Store and Sanitary Convenience, drawings for two structures planned for each end of the Granville Street Bridge (II). These engineering drawings are from COV-S365 in the Vancouver Archives,...
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A rare architectural illustration showing Rattenbury’s plan for...
A rare architectural illustration showing Rattenbury’s plan for the remodeling of the transitional Hotel Vancouver, between #1 and #2. The plan is dated 1901, and construction began in December of that...
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Special Remembrance Day Edition: Coming next Friday, this...
Special Remembrance Day Edition: Coming next Friday, this special presentation returns to Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge with the...
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Happy New Year everyone!I have a few unpublished drafts I’m...
Happy New Year everyone!I have a few unpublished drafts I’m going to release in the new year, and here is the first of a short series. This drawing was created for McCarter & Nairne Architects, and...
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Unpublished draft #2: Here were have an illustrated invoice for...
Diamond Cabs, Vancouver Illustrated invoice for Diamond Cabs, 1942 Penthouse ad, from the Avon Theatre program, 1954Unpublished draft #2: Here were have an illustrated invoice for Diamond Cabs, owned...
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Unpublished draft #3 This post is third in a line of...
Unpublished draft #3 This post is third in a line of unpublished drafts I never got around to posting. In particular, I always meant to highlight the fact that the New Westminster Museum and Archives...
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Unpublished draft #4: More work by Frits Jacobsen, from the...
Unpublished draft #4: More work by Frits Jacobsen, from the December, 1979 issue of Vancouver magazine. These drawings are actually uncredited in the magazine, but I confirmed with Frits a few years...
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Unpublished draft #5: This rare preliminary rendering by Robert...
Unpublished draft #5: This rare preliminary rendering by Robert Samuel (RS) Alexander shows a stylized depiction of a Haida scene, which I presume was the mural he painted for the old Grosvenor Hotel...
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Flashback from 1986, this print of the Roundhouse for Expo86 by...
Flashback from 1986, this print of the Roundhouse for Expo86 by Don Portelance was sponsored by Esso. From his bio: [Don] began his formal art education at night classes in the Vancouver School of Art,...
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The Birks Clock, an oil on board by a favourite of mine, Peter Maxwell Ewart....
The Birks Clock, an oil on board by a favourite of mine, Peter Maxwell Ewart. This work is up for auction on October 31, 2018 at Maynards Fine Art & Antiques in Richmond, BC, along with a number of...
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