The H.R. MacMillan Planetarium, Vancouver, a watercolour painting by Edward Goodall. Image from a printed note card. “The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, founded 1968…was designed in the 1960s by architect Gerald Hamilton to house what was then called The Centennial Museum. The planetarium was added as part of a pre-construction re-design.” [wikipedia]
As mentioned previously, Edward (Ted) Goodall “…began drawing pen and ink and pencil postcards of Vancouver Island and started the successful “Goodall’s Pencil Postcard Series.” …In the early fifties he produced a British Columbia calendar of scenes from the west coast first in pencil drawing but over the years eventually replaced them with paintings. source
This watercolour is perhaps a good example of his later work, and those who can recognize which towers grace the skyline will be able to accurately date this view’s vintage. Edward Goodall passed away in September of 1982.
Details of the Map of Vancouver by Rand Holmes aka Randolph Holton Holmes, circa 1971, printed for the Georgia Straight, December 23 - January 6, 1972. As seen in the Museum of Vancouver. According to wikipedia, Rand Holmes moved to Vancouver in 1969 and found work as an illustrator at The Georgia Straight. He would later gain a reputation for his work in underground comix, and was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame in 2005. A retrospective took place in 2007 on Lasqueti Island, BC (covered fairly extensively by BoingBoing) and Fantagraphics published a book of his life’s work in 2010 (video preview).
Towering City of the Future by Jasper Veerman, architectural illustrator in West Vancouver. Painted for the Journal of Commerce, Western Canada’s Construction Newspaper since 1911. Original painting now in the permanent exhibition “You Say You Want A Revolution” at the Museum of Vancouver. Note Project 200 in Gastown upper right, and proposed residential towers for the north shore of False Creek lower right, where Expo86 took place and where Concord Pacific is now.
![The H.R. MacMillan Planetarium, Vancouver, a watercolour painting by Edward Goodall. Image from a printed note card. “The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, founded 1968…was designed in the 1960s by architect Gerald Hamilton to house what was then called The Centennial Museum. The planetarium was added as part of a pre-construction re-design.” [wikipedia]
As mentioned previously, Edward (Ted) Goodall “…began drawing pen and ink and pencil postcards of Vancouver Island and started the successful “Goodall’s Pencil Postcard Series.” …In the early fifties he produced a British Columbia calendar of scenes from the west coast first in pencil drawing but over the years eventually replaced them with paintings. source
This watercolour is perhaps a good example of his later work, and those who can recognize which towers grace the skyline will be able to accurately date this view’s vintage. Edward Goodall passed away in September of 1982.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq0bv1s4dY1qc7pjjo1_1280.jpg)
