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Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard
Scorned by his art teachers for having an obsession with detail rather than using the broad, sweeping brush strokes they asserted were necessary to transmit the "feelings"; of a legitimate artist, Max Jacquiard quit art school and went on to develop his own distinctive artistic style and focus.
In his youth, steam locomotives had fascinated him. So instead of the flowers and bowls of fruit of his art classes, Jacquiard painted steam locomotives in thundering action, often set in dramatic mountain scenes in British Columbia or Alberta.
Today, railway-themed paintings and prints by Jacquiard grace thousands of homes and offices across North America. Jacquiard has also been inducted into the Railway Association of Canada for his amazing artwork.
Barrie Sanford has teamed with Max Jacquiard to produce Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard (National Railway Historical Society / Sandhill $39.95). The coffee table book displays 100 of Max's finest paintings, along with background text and other illustrations.
Jacquiard thoroughly researches the background of each proposed painting to ensure the landscape is true to life and the locomotive portrayed has the correct paint scheme and mechanical features it had in real life. He knows the wrath he will endure if he portrays a locomotive with a Worthington feedwater heater when true train worshipers know that particular locomotive had an Elesco feedwater heater.
Barrie Sanford is one of only 150 authors named in Alan Twigg's overview of B.C. literature from 1774 to 2000, The Essentials, due to his classic book on the Kettle Valley Railway. 978-0-9735602-2-0
[BCBW 2012]
In his youth, steam locomotives had fascinated him. So instead of the flowers and bowls of fruit of his art classes, Jacquiard painted steam locomotives in thundering action, often set in dramatic mountain scenes in British Columbia or Alberta.
Today, railway-themed paintings and prints by Jacquiard grace thousands of homes and offices across North America. Jacquiard has also been inducted into the Railway Association of Canada for his amazing artwork.
Barrie Sanford has teamed with Max Jacquiard to produce Train Master: The Railway Art of Max Jacquiard (National Railway Historical Society / Sandhill $39.95). The coffee table book displays 100 of Max's finest paintings, along with background text and other illustrations.
Jacquiard thoroughly researches the background of each proposed painting to ensure the landscape is true to life and the locomotive portrayed has the correct paint scheme and mechanical features it had in real life. He knows the wrath he will endure if he portrays a locomotive with a Worthington feedwater heater when true train worshipers know that particular locomotive had an Elesco feedwater heater.
Barrie Sanford is one of only 150 authors named in Alan Twigg's overview of B.C. literature from 1774 to 2000, The Essentials, due to his classic book on the Kettle Valley Railway. 978-0-9735602-2-0
[BCBW 2012]
Submitted on October 30, 2012 in By David.
