HEMING Arthur
Arthur Heming: Chronicler Of The North/ Chroniqueur Du Nord. 2013: 10.
“It was in childhood that the primitive spirit first came whispering to me. It was then I had my first day-dreams of the Northland – of it forests, its rivers, its lakes, its hunters, and trappers and traders, its fur runners and mounted police, its voyageurs and packeteers, its missionaries and Indians and prospectors, its animals, its birds, and its fishes, its trees its flowers and its seasons. Even in childhood I was forever wondering – what is daily going on in the Great Northern Forest …. With the years this ever-present wonder grew until it possessed me. MacLean’s 14-19, 1921 Nov. 1: “Arthur Heming Dramatist of the Forest.” Writ., & Interviewer, Charles C. Jenkins: 20.
Born in Paris Ontario, he received his early training at the Hamilton Art School the continued his studies at the Art Student’s League in New York and then in London England. He was employed as an illustrator on the staff of the Dominion Illustrated and then became a freelancer. He was sent to the barrens by Harper to accompany Casper Whitney as an illustrator. He also patrolled with the Royal North-West Mounted Police and travelled by pack train through the Rocky Mountains. Using the materials of his travels he published articles and illustrations in leading Canadian, English, French, German and American publications. He was the author of novels Spirit Lake and The Drama of the Forests.
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT:
Cover dust jacket front:
The Nor’Westers. Writ., Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1954
WRITER & ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content memoir & Cover dust jacket front:
The Drama of the Forests. Doubleday Page & Co., 1924.
SOURCE:
Book:
Arthur Heming: Chronicler Of The North/ Chroniqueur Du Nord. Curator Cassandra Getty. Museum London: 2013.
Article periodical:
Canadian Bookman, Apr.1919: “Some Canadian Illustrators.” Writ., St. George Burgoyne. 29.
GALLERY:
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