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E. J. Hughes
Taylor Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. (1952)

Taylor Bay, Gabriola Island is a quintessential Hughes painting which has now been reproduced as a limited edition giclee print on canvas. This is the first Hughes image to be available as a limited edition canvas print. The print edition was enthusiastically approved by E. J. Hughes.

This painting is described in Ian Thom's book .... "The well-known Taylor Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. (1952), long a part of Max Stern's private collection is, as Jacques Barbeau has noted, a quintessential Hughes painting. It contains all the elements of a great Hughes work: the ferry, the island landscape, the details of the fishing boat, the apparently unplanned foreground. The whole image is suffused with an even, beneficent light. There is a rightness to the image and a deep sense of pleasure at our place within nature."

Print details:
Image size: 25" x 31". Edition size: 200 numbered prints, 20 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 2 Publisher's Proofs. NOTE: All Artist Proofs, Printer's Proofs and Publisher's Proofs are soldout.

The large canvases are numbered 1/200 to 100/200 (one hundred prints) and smaller canvases sized 17 1/2" x 22" are numbered 101/200 to 200/200

The smaller prints, numbered and framed, are $1400.

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E. J. Hughes
Steamer in Grenville Channel

Steamer in Grenville Channel is the second Hughes painting to be reproduced as a limited edition giclee print on canvas.

This painting is described in Ian Thom's book .... "Steamer in Grenville Channel is a visionary painting that employs light in a way that is almost baroque. The boat itself is brilliantly lit against a brooding and dark hillside. This light has a revelatory quality to it but the mystery, as Jacques Barbeau (a collector of Hughes's work) has pointed out, is uncanny and defies strict definition.

This painting occupied Hughes for months, time that Max Stern complained about. The device of the logs in the foreground to establish our relationship to the scene was apparently initially too loud, detracting from the boat itself, but now is a perfect foil to the colour of the smokestack. The canvas is closely worked and tonally unified.

Essentially, it is a black, grey and white painting with a few small and vital touches of colour. It is also a study in contrasts: the relatively uneven forms of nature versus the harmonious shapes of the boat itself, and the realism of the depiction of the boat versus the clouds that seem miraculously lit from within. The very brightness of the ship contrasts with the gloomy surroundings.

This painting has a power that is quite beyond the conventions of the standard marine piece."

Print details:
Image size: 26" x 35" and 17 1/2" x 22". Edition size: 200 numbered prints, 20 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 2 Publisher's Proofs. NOTE: All Artist Proofs, Printer's Proofs and Publisher's Proofs are soldout.

The large canvases are numbered 1/200 to 100/200 (one hundred prints) and smaller canvases sized 17 1/2" x 22" are numbered 101/200 to 200/200

Framed, numbered large canvas prints are available at $2500.

The smaller numbered prints are $1400 framed.

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E. J. Hughes
Nanaimo Harbour

Nanaimo Harbour is the third Hughes painting to be reproduced as a limited edition giclee print on canvas.

This painting is described in Ian Thom's book .... "Hughes also addressed the issue of keeping his compositions fresh by introducing greater complexity. Nanaimo Harbour is a wonderful painting that reflects a visit to Nanaimo in 1948, rather than the time it was painted, which was 1962.

It is an adept combination of observation, memory and formal devices. The canvas succeeds in its treatment of water, the convincing group of boats and the accomplished way that Hughes leads the eye through the composition into the distance."

Print details: 
Image size: 26" x 37". Edition size: 200 numbered prints, 20 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 2 Publisher's Proofs.  NOTE: All Artist Proofs, Printer's Proofs and Publisher's Proofs are soldout.
Price: (framed): numbered prints $2500.00.

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E. J. Hughes
View of Maple Bay

View of Maple Bay is reproduced as a limited edition giclee print on canvas. The print edition was approved by E. J. Hughes.

Here is a wonderful painting of Maple Bay in the early 1970s. It is full of detail from the driftwood in the foreground, people relaxing on the beach and at the government dock, as well as a magnificent arbutus tree on the left. The "STORE" sign painted on the roof of the Maple Bay Store was large enough to attract distant boaters with binoculars. Full of vibrant colours, Maple Bay is so recognizable as a Hughes.

Print details:
Image size: 22" high x 17.5" wide. Edition size: 200 numbered prints, 20 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 2 Publisher's Proofs.
NOTE: All Artist Proofs, Printer's Proofs and Publisher's Proofs are sold out.

Price (framed): numbered prints $1400.00.

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E. J. Hughes
Coastal Boats near Sidney

Coastal Boats near Sidney is reproduced as a limited edition giclee print on paper and on canvas.

E. J. Hughes saw and signed the Artist Proofs but did not see the paper prints of this edition which was released in 2008 as a Commemorative Edition

Print details:
Edition size: 300 numbered prints on paper. Image size: 18" high x 24" wide.
3 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 15 Publisher's Proofs on canvas. Image size 36" x 48"

Price (unframed): numbered prints $395.00. The three Artist Proofs were signed by E. J. Hughes and have been sold, however the Printer's Proofs and some of the Publisher's Proofs are available at $3200.00 framed

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E. J. Hughes
Above Maple Bay

Above Maple Bay is reproduced as a limited edition giclee print on canvas.
Release date 2008

Image size: 18" x 24". Edition size: 200 numbered prints, 20 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 2 Publisher's Proofs. 
Price: (framed): numbered prints $1400.00.

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E. J. Hughes
Boats at a Wharf, Crofton

Boats at a Wharf, Crofton is reproduced as a limited edition giclee print on canvas.
Release date 2008

The original painting is Acrylic on Canvas painted in 1988.

"During my outdoor sketching trips on the east coast of Vancouver Island in the summer of 1986 I covered the area from near Victoria in the south to the Ladysmith area in the north. Although most of the subjects I sketched, all in pencil, were of trees, seacoast or nearby lakes and rivers, occasionally I sketched groups of boats. In this group it was mainly the maze of verticals and the foreground yellow maple that stood out."

Image size: 18" x 24". Edition size: 200 numbered prints, 20 Artist Proofs, 2 Printer's Proofs, and 2 Publisher's Proofs. 
Price: (framed): numbered prints $1400.00.