Cover image of Chinatown, from the October 1968 issue of Canadian Architect, artist unknown. The scene illustrates E Pender Street, looking towards Carrall. Inside this issue are a number of fantasy concepts which I hope to feature in a series of upcoming posts. Click here for the Google Street View today.
717 East Pender by Marlene Yuen, a book artist, and seen at the Alcuin Society Wayzgoose 2011. From the limited edition accordion book A Haunting History of Vancouver, hand printed silkscreen images with glow-in-the-dark ink, published October, 2011.
Cover of the book At Home With History - The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Homes by Eve Lazarus. The painting on the cover is by Richard Tetrault titled Hawks Avenue, and it was painted in 1975. Book description from the Anvil Press website:
At Home with History is a collection of real life stories that bring to life the glamorous and not-so-glamorous social histories of selected heritage homes in Greater Vancouver—stories of brothels and bootleggers, secret rooms, and Shakespearean-style murders. An Italian family survives the depression by selling booze and sandwiches from their eastside home. A Shaughnessy mansion headquarters the Ku Klux Klan and then a children’s hospice. A secret radio room is uncovered during renovations. Every home has a social history and a genealogy that tells a tremendous amount about the history of the times and offers up a sense of place…
Egg Mart, Chinatown, a very photo-realistic painting from 2011 submitted by Alison Fleming. 269 E Georgia Street, to be exact. We normally don’t feature photographic works here on Illustrated Vancouver, but if you look closely enough you will see this is indeed a painting. Oil on gessoed wood, to be exact, according to her website. Thanks, Alison!
Ho-Ho Chop Suey in Chinatown, by Richmond artist and musician Raymond Chow, in the 1990 book Vancouver Ink Images of a City.
Gung Hay Fat Choy, oil on canvas (40 x 30in) by Paul Alexander Goranson, 1996. Paul was both a student of Frederick Varley, and a war artist with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Painting sold for $4,680 CDN (premium included) at Heffel Auction House on February 24, 2011. Goranson turned 85 in 1996, just 6 years before his death in 2002.
Sam Kee Building, China Town, Vancouver, 2010 by mer.loves.to.sketch via Vancouver Sketchbook group.
Vintage Vancouver Chinatown decal, sold at Cunningham Drug store for 5 cents prior to 1970. Found via ebay auction.
Vintage Vancouver Chinatown decal, sold at Cunningham Drug store for 5 cents prior to 1970. Found via ebay auction.
