Literature:

Marjorie Lismer Bridges, A Border of Beauty, Arthur Lismer’s Pen and Pencil, Toronto, 1977, page 153, for a sketch entitled Never Look Back, B.C. which depicts the artist in the woods with his painting equipment.
Lois Darroch, Bright Land, A Warm Look at Arthur Lismer, Toronto/Vancouver, 1981.

Exhibited:

6th Annual Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, 1954.

Note:

Every summer beginning in 1951, Lismer and his wife travelled by train to Vancouver then by supply boat to the town of Ucluelet and then a taxi to a lodge on Wickaninnish Bay on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was the forest that fascinated Lismer. As Darroch writes “Here the great boles thrust their mighty height straight up and the sunlight slanted through the brood of giant trees…He painted several versions of Lismer Bay, a little cove he loved…Lismer’s Paintings were filled with the earth force, the vitality that was undeniably his mark. The colours of his palette were more restricted. Green predominated, for he was surrounded by the lush vegetation of the forest, and growth was the essence of the life Lismer loved.”

Property of the Montefiore Club, Montreal
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