English Bay Hotel by Dave Fletcher, dated 6 November, 2011, via flickr. Dave writes:
A further sketch in the “Vancouver West-end Sketchbook”. This one is of the English Bay Hotel on the corner of Denman Street at Pendrell Street. This appears to be a 1950’s style concrete building (ugly and similar to construction to “The Residency”) … in the 12 or so years I have lived in the area, I do not recall every seeing anyone enter or exit this building (strange because it is not only a Hotel in a high tourist area but also because it has appeared to be open).
English Bay Hotel does appear to have a good number of reviews here, so I think they’re legit!
Seawall Coastal Curves I by Tim Fraser, 2011. Tim is having a show at the Ian Tan Gallery September 10 - 29, 2011, with an opening reception Saturday, September 10; 2-4pm. From the Ian Tan website:
Tim Fraser is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and a Fine Arts graduate of Surrey’s Kwantlen College with a background in commercial art. He has exhibited with Ian Tan since 2005 and has become well-known for his dreamy and curvaceous paintings of the Vancouver Seawall, with lollipop trees in luminous colours. Fraser regularly visits Stanley Park to capture new vistas of the seawall.
Mia Johnson
Vancouver cover page, by S P (Spencer Perceval/Percival) Judge, dated 1906, and published by the Vancouver Tourist Association, from the VPL Special Collections. Produced a couple years after this image, seen this past week.
VPL Special Collections SPE-NW-REF 971.133 V22vva.
Vancouver, the Sunset Doorway of the Dominion, by S P (Spencer Perceval/Percival) Judge, dated 1904, and published by the Vancouver Tourist Association, from the VPL Special Collections. According to Gary Sim’s “Art & Artists in Exhibition: Vancouver 1890 - 1950”, Spencer Perceval Judge emigrated to Canada around 1900 and was a major influence on the growth of art in Vancouver; Judge exhibited in a group exhibition with T.W. Fripp and James Blomfield in 1903, and he painted a series of watercolours of the early Union Steamship fleet in 1905.
VPL Special Collections SPE-NW-REF 971.133 V22t.
Bathhouse on English Bay in Vancouver Canada circa 1931, by Brian Croft.
As late as 1911, much of the beachfront was privately owned. Maps dating back to 1887 clearly show subdivided lots extending onto the beach and these, of course, had become prime sites for private cottages, bathing and boathouses. Such was the popularity of English Bay that in 1898 the BCER, introduced the Davie Streetcar service, connecting downtown with the beachfront. Fortuitously, in1905, the beach had come under Parks Board’s influence… [more] - by Brian Croft
Vancouver, Canada’s Pacific Gateway; tourist brochure cover art by Cobb, which I’ve subsequently transformed into poster format here, from the VPL Special Collections SPE-NW-REF 971.133 V22V2252v1.
Waterfront City, by Jack Shadbolt, 1985. Part of a series of 4 paintings created for Vancouver’s 100th birthday in 1986. The paintings were commissioned by a publication company that reprinted the paintings as a series of commemorative poster prints. Three of the four paintings were purchased from the publication company, held in trust, and this painting is now displayed in Vancouver’s City Hall.
City of the Century by Toni Onley was previously posted last week, and
Heritage by Michael Kluckner (as seen on p.217 of Vancouver Remembered) will be posted next week. I am missing a picture of Hugh Ricks’ Sea Otter painting; if anyone has the poster, or an image, please send it over! Thank you!
Paintings from this series will be tagged “centennial”.
Vancouver, 1792, a painting by Jim McKenzie, with Native Place Names overlaid, as seen in Donald E. Waite’s book, Vancouver Exposed, a History in Photographs. This is a remarkable reinterpretation of the map by City Archivist, Major J.S. Matthews, Indian Names for Familiar Places. The book Vancouver Exposed is available at Don’s website and at Black Bond Books, and prints of the painting on paper or canvas by Jim McKenzie (without the text) are also available here.
Update: And as seen on a street mural near 265 25 Street, West Vancouver! (via Google Street View) Thanks, Robert!
English Bay, cover illustration of a promotional pamphlet by Greater Vancouver Publicity Bureau, circa 1928. VPL Special Collections Call#: 971.133 V22V2243g 1928.
![Bathhouse on English Bay in Vancouver Canada circa 1931, by Brian Croft.
As late as 1911, much of the beachfront was privately owned. Maps dating back to 1887 clearly show subdivided lots extending onto the beach and these, of course, had become prime sites for private cottages, bathing and boathouses. Such was the popularity of English Bay that in 1898 the BCER, introduced the Davie Streetcar service, connecting downtown with the beachfront. Fortuitously, in1905, the beach had come under Parks Board’s influence… [more] - by Brian Croft](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9obepiWZ51qc7pjjo1_1280.jpg)
