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 fiancée and depicted fellow "relief stiffs" and the BC landscape in character sketches and paintings. Incisive and candid, his letters reveal a born contrarian with a strong sense of social superiority over his fellow "twenty centers." But his letters also offer a fresh perspective on the hopes and dreams of an eminent Ontario artist and of the generation who came of age at a time of economic upheaval and class conflict.
ISBN: | 9780774834988 |
Publication date: | 1st March 2018 |
Author: | Alan Caswell Collier |
Publisher: | UBCPress an imprint of University of British Columbia Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 368 pages |
Genres: |
Autobiography: arts and entertainment Diaries, letters and journals Social and cultural history |