Kingdom By The Sea, N.S.
Wallace Robinson MacAskill (1887 -1956)
MacAskill was born and worked in Nova Scotia. He began taking pictures at a young age after being gifted a camera, and attended the Wade School of Photography in New York for training in his late teens. His style is described as 'pictorialism', using a soft focus that gives the hint of impressionist artists. This art piece demonstrates that technique. The soft tinting on the piece was most likely completed by his wife, Elva, who was a painter as well as photographer. In 1953, his work was used to present a taped, illustrative teaching series for photographers. He was made a Fellow of the Photographers' Society of America in 1954.
Kingdom by the Sea, N.S.
Hand-tinted photograph, probably original
Original framing
Excellent quality
Framed 7h 8w
Unframed 4h 5w
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