TITLE:
Alan Caswell Collier, relief stiff : an artist's letters from depression-era British Columbia / edited by Peter Neary.
Alternate Title:
Relief stiff
Publication Date:
2018
Publication Information:
Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press,
Physical Description:
xiii, 351 p. : ill., map.
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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 fiancÔee 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 a beloved Ontario artist and of the generation who came of age at a time of economic upheaval and class conflict.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780774834988
