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Mount Stephen From Partridge
"The view is of the upper spiral tunnel on Field Hill on a September morning about 1950."
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A Prairie Sunset by Max Jacquiard
"A string of loaded grain cars rolls across a background coloured by the setting sun."
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Hope Station by Max Jacquiard
Original Acrylic Painting
It is not often that we get an original painting in by Max but this one depicts the Hope Station...view original
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Selkirk at Stoney Creek by Max Jacquiard
Sold - Original Acrylic Painting
And it is even more rare that we have two originals in the store at the same time...view original
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Mt. Bourgeau from Bow River by Max Jacquiard
The view is from the bank of the Bow River just west of Banff on a fine September afternoon.
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50's Fog on the Fraser by Max Jacquiard
Capturing a sunrise as the fog slowly begins to lift over the Pattulo Bridge, Max fondly recreates this memorable waterfront scene from the 1950's.
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Legislative Building and High Level Bridge
"The scene is prior to 1951 when streetcars last used the bridge..."
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CPR Piers, Vancouver
"A summer evening view of Burrard Inlet and the North Shore mountains sometime prior to 1938 - Pier D was destroyed by fire in July of that year...."
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Water Stop at Red Pass Junction
"The Fraser River flows out of the western end of Moose Lake, 44 miles west of Jasper. Here, at Red Pass Junction , the CNR mainline divides into separate routes to the ports of Prince Rupert and Vancouver...."
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Max Jacquiard is one of the most respected steam train artists in Canada. Some admirers believe he is to steam trains what Robert Bateman is to wildlife.
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When Max was a young boy, the Jacquiard family lived in Flin Flon, Manitoba, a town which contained a major railway maintenance yard.
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The huge trains, with their gleaming steel engines, chugging rhythms and plaintive steam whistles deeply impressed the young Jacquiard. Although they moved to the Lower Mainland of B.C. when he was eight, Max Jacquiard never lost his love of steam trains.
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When Max grew up, he chose to work as a printer but in his spare time began to paint landscapes. In 1982, Jacquiard devoted himself to recording the romance of the steam train in acrylics.
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He has amassed a sizable reference library of articles, books, photos and slides of C.P.R. and C.N.R. steam trains and the places where they operated.
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However, attention to detail does not account for the power or tremendous popularity of Max Jacquiard's work.
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What touches the psyche of Canadians is his ability to capture those moments in Canada's history when its growth was inextricably linked to the raiload:
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when the railroad was the vital artery of the nation's commerce, when the very existence of small towns in the west depended upon it,
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and when our personal histories--the lives of our parents and grandparents--were shaped by the efficiency of rail traffic and the opportunities that they created.
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Trains still work the tracks that Jacquiard depicts but they are diesel not steam, utilitarian marvels that lack the charm and elegance of their older cousins.
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To view a Max Jacquiard painting is to open a door to the past from the vantage of a wide-eyed child: big steel wheels thunder under a giant plume of steam while tracks clatter, and a whistle sings of delights just around the bend and over the hill.
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Since his retirement, Max has devoted himself to painting, and his body of work is continually growing. He now lives in Coquitlam, B.C.
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Please enjoy viewing these thumbnail images of his prints and check back often to see new work. Click on any thumbnail for a larger image
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We have one small Campfire in Hard Times available at the moment. They are very hard to come by. We are selling it framed.
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