Max Jacquiard
The powerful acrylic-on-canvas images conjure up visions of the strength and romance of the steam trains that have been a part of the artist's life since his early childhood days in Manitoba. "It was all steam trains when I was a kid," Max says, "I loved to watch them." The Jacquiard family moved to the Lower Mainland area of British Columbia when Max was eight years old. Like many other youngsters, Max loved to draw cartoons but eventually began to paint scenery and portraits before focussing exclusively on steam trains.
Max Jacquiard has a sizable research library of printed materials, photos and slides of steam trains and the places they would have operated. It is that attention to precise and accurate detail that sets Jacquiard apart from other artists of the genre. The sensitivity to his subject and a quiet passion that is infused into each work seem to allow Jacquiard to breath life into the canvases. Looking at Jacquiard's work takes you back to the mid-1940s when young boys could sneak into rail yards to peer through the grimy windows of a roundhouse and behold the hissing and gleaming steam locomotives inside. The evocative nature of Max Jacquiard's painting has captured the imagination of steam enthusiasts across Canada and the United States. His paintings now grace walls in homes across North America.
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Details of: 8000 on Stoney Creek Bridge; Royal Hudson Under Lions Gate Bridge; The Dominion and Massive Mountain.
Details of Summer Afternoon - Banff Station; The Canadian at Morant's Curve.
Details of Over the Selkirks; Fernie Station; Winter Afternoon - Castle Mountain.
Details of Revelstoke at Dusk.
Details of: A Winter Freight; Fall Colours in Rogers Pass 1950.
Details of: Harvest Time; The Three Sisters.
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