The Twice-Weekly Letters: July 10, 1999 to Sept 25, 2009 (Signed)

Genn, Robert

ISBN 10: 0978467310 / ISBN 13: 9780978467319

Published by Studio Beckett, Vancouver, 2010

About this Item

Large volume, 947 pages including a comprehensive index, ribbon marker. Robert Genn (1936-2014) is primarily known as a Canadian landscape painter; this volume contains his email letters regarding his artistic pursuits, his wide range of interests, the struggles of his profession, and his remarkable travels. Heavy and will require additional postage to overseas destinations.

Seller Inventory # 18744

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Twice-Weekly Letters: July 10, 1999 to Sept 25, 2009 (Signed)
• Publisher: Studio Beckett, Vancouver
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978467310
• ISBN 13: 9780978467319
• Binding: Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
• Illustrator: Robert Genn
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art - British Columbia

About this title

Synopsis

In 1999, Canadian Painter Robert Genn started emailing personally addressed letters to some of his friends. One by one, in the viral nature that is the Internet, these letters were copied, shared and generally passed around. Gradually at first, Robert's list grew until tens of thousands now go out in nanoseconds from a state-of-the-art dedicated server to creatively-minded people in 115 countries. These totally free letters trace Robert's artistic pursuits, his wide range of interests, the struggles of his profession, and his remarkable travels. They also inform, inspire, motivate and give tangible meaning to Robert's abiding faith in the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Artists. Here, between these covers, is the collection so far, with all its lumps and bumps, high points and low. These letters have been opened with anticipation and joy. Here they are, all of them, for the first time in one place.

About the Author

Robert Genn is one of Canada's most accomplished painters, having gained international recognition for his genre subjects on Canada's West Coast. He has painted in most parts of Canada, and in the United States, Central America, Europe and Asia.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1936, he attended Victoria College, The University of British Columbia and The Art Centre School in Los Angeles, California.

Genn carries on the tradition of the Canadian Landscape with fresh, painterly techniques and strong design, often and especially exhibiting his devotion to painting by reducing grand themes to small panels - painted in the wilderness he loves.