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• Title:[Correspondence. Selections]
  Alan Caswell Collier, relief stiff : an artist's letters from depression-era British Columbia / edited by Peter Neary.
  
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• Variant Title:Relief stiff
  
• Author/Creator:Collier, Alan Caswell, 1911-1990, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Neary, Peter, 1938- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) Canadian exhibitions (non-circulating)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: ND249.C53 A3 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: ND249.C53 A3 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Collier, Alan Caswell, 1911-1990--Correspondence.
  Artists--Canada--Correspondence.
  Work camps--British Columbia--History.
  Labor service--Canada--History.
  
• Genre/Form:Personal correspondence.
  
• Description:xiii, 351 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Alan Caswell Collier was one of Canada's most admired and successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he worked alongside other single, unemployed men in government-run relief camps. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to his fiancée and depicted fellow "relief stiffs" and the BC landscape in character sketches and paintings. Incisive and candid, his letters reveal a born contrarian with a strong sense of social superiority over his fellow "twenty centers." But his letters also offer a fresh perspective on the hopes and dreams of a beloved Ontario artist and of the generation who came of age at a time of economic upheaval and class conflict."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780774834988
  0774834986