Wallace Robinson MacAskill (1887-1956) was one particular of Nova Scotia's most popular marine photographers. (We have observed conflicting birth dates ranging from 1887-1890). Most effective identified for his Nova Scotia seascape and sailing vessel scenes, his performs are becoming rising collectible each in Canada and the United States.
Born in St. Peters, Cape Breton County in Nova Scotia, MacAskill graduated from the Wade College of Photography in New York in 1907. He opened his initially photographic studio in St. Peters, and then in Glace Bay, ahead of moving to Halifax in 1915. In Halifax MacAskill worked for military photographer W.G. MacLaughlan, and involving 1916-19 he worked as a printer at the Elite Studios in Halifax. Among 1920-29 MacAskill worked as a photographic printer for the Industrial Photo Service.
In 1926 MacAskill married Elva Abriel, a further experienced photographer, and he opened one more studio in Halifax about this time. His photographs have been employed extensively by the Nova Scotia government, and several MacAskill images also appeared in two books that he published which includes Out of Halifax (1937) and Lure of the Sea (1951). Almost certainly MacAskill's most renowned image was the popular schooner "Bluenose", which appeared as a postage stamp in 1929, and which appeared in different books and which proved to be a single of his Ideal-promoting art photos.
Wallace R. MacAskill died in Halifax on January 25, 1956. In 1964 Mrs. MacAskill sold the contents of MacAskill's studio, like his negatives, to Maurice Crosby, a different Halifax photographer. In 1970 Crosby sold them to the Maritime Supplies & Exchange Ltd. And in 1984, National Art Ltd. was offered exclusive rights to generate new hand-colored photographs making use of MacAskill's original negatives. These images had been nonetheless hand colored in oils, but are not as very prized by collectors as MacAskill's earliest and original operates. This agreement expired in 1986 and in 1987 MacAskill's negatives have been donated to the Public Archives of Nova Scotia exactly where they stay right now.
Just a couple of of the Wallace MacAskill titles we have noticed include:
• Bluenose
• Cape Le Rounde, C.B.
• Drying Sails
• My Ship o' Dreams
• Peggy's Cove Lighthouse
• Rockbound Coast, Nova Scotia
• Saga of the Sea
• Schooners in Early Morning Mist
• Sunset, Nova Scotia Coast
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