Lot #18: Signed W.R MacAskill (1890-1956) photo.

Famous Canadian photographer W.R. MacAskill (Wallace Robinson MacAskill 1887-1956)  MacAskill was influenced by the Pictorialist Movement, a term applied to artistic photography including soft focus impressionism, which stresses atmosphere over subject matter of the image, which was to become the MacAskill trademark. This movement, inspired by the impressionism of Turner, Degas and Monet, placed particular emphasis on tonal values and composition. Many of his most famous images, such as "Starboard Look-out", "Grey Dawn", "Morning in the Cove" and "Morning Along the Waterfront" reflect this pictorialist influence.  MacAskill took a series of photographs of the Halifax Explosion and of general Halifax scenes which were later printed in a postcard series by Underwood & Underwood.  In 1924, "Grey Dawn" was shown at the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. His most famous images are of ships and the sea and one of his photographs of the Bluenose became the subject of a commemorative postage stamp issued in 1929 , and in 1937 another was used on the Canadian ten cent piece. 
Condition: Excellent