I thought that some of our Urban Sketchers would find this article from last weekend’s Globe and Mail interesting…
Peter Clapham Sheppard was an urban painter who was eclipsed by the Group of Seven in his day, when the movement towards the natural was highly popular. He died in relative obscurity. However, as society has become urbanized, his urban paintings are increasing in popularity and value…
As a side note, I often walked down Elizabeth Street as a student, and still do from time to time when visiting Toronto. By memory, some of the pictured buildings are still there.
Very interesting article – thanks for posting this.
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Thanks for the article. We sometimes feel like we are reinventing the wheel. LOL. I have ordered the book mentioned from the library.
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Interesting!
Urban painting like urban sketching captures our history.
Is that the Canada Life building in the background? Someday I would like to sketch it?
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