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A.C. Leighton, R.B.A., Alberta School of Technology
and Art, will hold an exhibition of water colors in Vancouver
Civic Art Gallery, Georgia Street, from May 7 to 15, inclusive. This well-known artist is a member of seven international art associations and a contributor to the Paris Salon, Royal Academy, London, and the Royal Canadian Academy. Many of Mr. Leighton's pictures are in public galleries, here and abroad, and he has received the plaudits of the press, art critics, and the public. Last season he spent sketching in the Rockies and two of his pictures were sold from the wall of the Royal Academy at the May exhibition. Mr. Leighton has contributed materially to the art consciousness of the West through his many exhibitions and the founding of the Alberta Society of Artists, of which he is the president. He is noted for the transparency of his color, rendered in broad clean washes, luminosity of his skies with their rolling clouds, and for distances. A superb draughtsman, he portrays his subject with true atmospheric feeling, usually good in composition and painted with much force and vitality. This artist depicts the grandeur and majesty of the Rockies in a very convincing way. He is a veteran of the World War and suffers from the effects of poison gas. The exhibition is free. |