Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff: An Artist's Letters from Depression-Era British Columbia
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Alan Caswell Collier was one of Canada's most admired and successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he worked alongside other single, unemployed men in government-run relief camps. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to his fianc e and depicted fellow "relief stiffs" and the BC landscape in character sketches and paintings. Incisive and candid, his letters reveal a born contrarian with...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0774834986
ISBN13:9780774834988
Release Date:March 2018
Publisher:UBC Press
Length:416 Pages
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