Bon Echo Inn On the Mazinawe Lakes Poster
Source: The Art of Bon Echo, by Robert Stacey and Stan McMullin
“Bon Echo Inn on the Mazinaw Lakes” is one of the finest Canadian artist-produced posters from any period, a rare example of the happy marriage of design and state-of-the-art technology. The parasol-shaded passenger in the canoe adds an oriental touch to an otherwise robustly posterish treatment of the Mazinaw Rock, giving a human presence to the landscape while indicating the scale. The flat patterning of the sunlit and shaded areas of the cliff and the angular trunk of pine in the foreground suggest that Jackson was familiar with Japanese wood-block prints.
At Merrill Denison’s request, Jackson also designed a brochure and letterhead for the inn, featuring the great rock, with a stippling effect achieved by flickering paint on to the drawing with a toothbrush.” (see the letterhead elsewhere on this site).
Jackson also painted the great rock in winter, seldom done at the time. “I’m very glad the place is to be painted in its winter garb by a fine painter,” wrote Merrill Denison to Muriel Goggin in February 1924, shortly before Jackson’s arrival at the Inn. It is clear from this letter that Merrill found Jackson a good companion. “Jackson’s a joy,” he observed, “An ample man who has read, who grasps life and is a profound painter. His influence is …stimulation. He is really painting the place for the first time and will get some notable canvases.”
Jackson’s painting later produced a five-colour poster by Rous and Mann. Denison hoped that the poster would be extensively circulated by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Bon Echo Inn On the Mazinawe Lakes Poster
Source: The Art of Bon Echo, by Robert Stacey and Stan McMullin
“Bon Echo Inn on the Mazinaw Lakes” is one of the finest Canadian artist-produced posters from any period, a rare example of the happy marriage of design and state-of-the-art technology. The parasol-shaded passenger in the canoe adds an oriental touch to an otherwise robustly posterish treatment of the Mazinaw Rock, giving a human presence to the landscape while indicating the scale. The flat patterning of the sunlit and shaded areas of the cliff and the angular trunk of pine in the foreground suggest that Jackson was familiar with Japanese wood-block prints.
At Merrill Denison’s request, Jackson also designed a brochure and letterhead for the inn, featuring the great rock, with a stippling effect achieved by flickering paint on to the drawing with a toothbrush.” (see the letterhead elsewhere on this site).
Jackson also painted the great rock in winter, seldom done at the time. “I’m very glad the place is to be painted in its winter garb by a fine painter,” wrote Merrill Denison to Muriel Goggin in February 1924, shortly before Jackson’s arrival at the Inn. It is clear from this letter that Merrill found Jackson a good companion. “Jackson’s a joy,” he observed, “An ample man who has read, who grasps life and is a profound painter. His influence is …stimulation. He is really painting the place for the first time and will get some notable canvases.”
Jackson’s painting later produced a five-colour poster by Rous and Mann. Denison hoped that the poster would be extensively circulated by the Canadian Pacific Railway.