Park Pathway, or Arbutus Tree Landscape III

Painting

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The Union Club of British Columbia

Park Pathway, or Arbutus Tree Landscape III, 1935. Watercolour by Annie Amelia Rose Bushby Bullen (1863-1956)

Park Pathway, or Arbutus Tree Landscape III, 1935. Watercolour by Annie Amelia Rose Bushby Bullen (1863-1956)

Name/Title

Park Pathway, or Arbutus Tree Landscape III

Entry/Object ID

2001.01.75

Description

Painting This image is the third in a series of three light-filled watercolour landscape scenes of Goldstream Park by Rose Bullen. This impressionistic painting depicts part of a quiet forest pathway in bright sunlight done in soft mossy greens, yellows and blues.

Artwork Details

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Subject Place

Region

Pacific Northwest

Continent

North America

Context

This large 940 acre park, part of an old-growth temperate rain forest, was established as Goldstream Provincial Park in 1958. At Finlayson Arm in Langford, Greater Victoria, B.C., it is known for its hiking trails and the annual fall salmon runs in the Goldstream River. Many varieties of trees flourish on the river's floodplain including Douglas-fir and western red cedar as well as western hemlock, black cottonwood, bigleaf maple, red alder and western western yew. Arbutus, western flowering dogwood and lodgepole pine can be seen on the ridges. Wildflowers also proliferate during spring and summer.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Annie Amelia Rose Bushby Bullen (1863-1956)

Role

Painter

Date made

1935

Time Period

20th Century

Notes

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Born in New Westminster, B.C., Annie Amelia (Rose) Bullen née Bushby was known for her light-filled landscape paintings. Bullen was a granddaughter of Sir James Douglas, Chief Factor of Victoria and later Governor of the Colony of British Columbia. Her father, Arthur T. Bushby was Registrar of Companies for British Columbia. Before her marriage to Arthur Fitzherbert Bullen in 1884, Bullen studied art as well as music in Germany and England. Her husband founded the British Columbia Marine Railways Company, that including shipbuilding. After he suffered a stroke, Mrs. Bullen began negotiations with Yarrow & Co., shipbuilders from Scotland, and in 1914 Yarrow took control of the company. The Bullen family lived at the Esquimalt Road estate of “Oakdene” in Victoria. Bullen was well known for her accomplished paintings in oil and watercolour, inspired by the landscapes of B.C. viewed during her numerous travels. She exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society from 1917 to 1936, and was a member of the Victoria Sketch Club.

Edition

Edition

Arbutus Tree Landscape

Edition Size

Three

Edition Number

III

Notes

Set of three watercolour landscape scenes of Goldstream Park, Victoria, BC. - Arbutus Tree Landscape I, II and III See also 2001.01.74 and 2001.01.76. ________________________ Watercolour is known as the oldest painting medium, from when prehistoric peoples used pigments from trees or leaves, and other water-based pigments to make cave paintings. Watercolour painting is a distinctive art form, straddling the worlds of both drawing and painting. Once a stroke or wash is applied, it cannot be altered, and so demands great skill, training and experience. The paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble binder. The discovery, invention or refinement of various related technologies such as papyrus, paper, paint brushes and pre-made watercolour pigments, cakes and tubes all contributed to the development of watercolour painting around the world. Watercolour painting dominated Asian art for thousands of years, and still does today. In China and Japan, watercolour art (known as brush or scroll painting, or ink and wash) is the universal painting medium, with some using only black inks to produce monochrome works with detailed brush work. In Europe during the Middle Ages, watercolours were used to create illuminated manuscripts as well as colour maps. Later during the Renaissance they were used to create make portrait miniatures or create nature studies. And in the late 18th century during the Golden Age of watercolour painting, artists from the school of English landscape painting raised its status to a serious and independent art form that continues today.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature, Date

Location

Lower right: R. Bullen 1935

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Visible image

Height

23.5 cm

Width

33.7 cm

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

Legacy collection - detail unknown

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

By Annie Amelia Rose Bushby Bullen: 2001.01.74 Lake View or Arbutus Tree Landscape II 2001.01.75 Park Pathway or Arbutus Tree Landscape III 2001.01.76 Goldstream Park July 4, Arbutus Tree Landscape I 2016.01.01 Below Golf Links, 8th Hole, Victoria Golf Club By Gil Allen 2001.01.80 Arbutus Patterns By Harry Upperton Knight 2014.08.05 Broom and Arbutus

Web Links and URLs

Goldstream Provincial Park, Victoria BC

Copyright

Notes

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