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"The Port of Liverpool" Pamphlet Displaying the Model of the Port Created by Alfred Crocker Leighton
20th Century, Circa 1924
Liverpool Harbour, United Kindgom
AUDIO ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Leighton Foundation Permanent Collection (Archives)
Glenbow Archives RCT-172 (Recording)

2

All Red Route-Artwork by Alfred Crocker (A.C.) Leighton, the Canadian Pacific
20th Century, Circa 1927
London, England, United Kingdom
AUDIO ATTACHMENT
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Canadian Pacific Archives (Archives)
Glenbow Archives RCT-172 (Recording)
Leighton Staff (Text)

3

Alfred Crocker (A.C.) Leighton Painting En Plein Air (Outdoors) in the Mountains
20th Century
Rocky Mountains, Western Canada
AUDIO ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Leighton Foundation Permanent Collection (Photograph)
Glenbow Archives RCT-172 (Recording)

4

"Mount Skoki" Oil Painting by Alfred Crocker (A.C.) Leighton
20th Century, Circa 1935
Rocky Mountains, Western Canada
AUDIO ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Leighton Foundation Permanent Collection (Artwork)
Glenbow Archives RCT-172 (Recording)

5

"A.C. Leighton, Famous Artist, Arrives Here to Join Staff at Tech"-The Calgary Herald
30 November 1929
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
AUDIO ATTACHMENT
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Reprinted with Permission of The Calgary Herald (Newspaper)
Glenbow Archives RCT-172 (Recording)
Leighton Staff (Text)

6

Letterhead for the Alberta Society of Artists Founded by Alfred Crocker (A.C.) Leighton
20th Century, Circa 1931
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
AUDIO ATTACHMENT
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Leighton Foundation Permanent Collection (Archives)
Glenbow Archives RCT-172 (Recording)
Leighton Staff (Text)

7

Alfred Crocker (A.C.) Leighton Teaching Art En Plein Air (Outdoors)
20th Century, Circa 1930
Alberta, Canada
AUDIO ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Leighton Foundation Permanent Collection (Photograph)
Private Collection of Max Foran and Heather MacEwan Foran (Recording)

8

Photograph of the Leighton Home in the Alberta Foothills, Designed by Alfred Crocker (A.C.) Leighton
20th Century, Circa 1950-1960s
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
AUDIO ATTACHMENT
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Leighton Foundation Permanent Collection (Photograph)
Glenbow Archives RCT-172 (Recording)
Leighton Staff (Text)

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In 1924, after designing a working scale model of the Port of Liverpool, A.C. Leighton was discovered by the Canadian Pacific Railway and hired to paint promotional materials to encourage travel, immigration and freight traffic to Canada. At that time the CPR provided established and emerging artists with railway passes and accommodation to travel around Canada with the agreement that the CPR would have the first chance to view and possibly purchase any work created. Leighton came to Canada in August of 1925 to find inspiration. His first visit lasted only a few short months but he quickly fell in love with the Canadian Rockies-a passion that remained with him for the rest of his life.

When Leighton returned to Canada in 1927 he remarked to The Studio about the Rockies, "The grandeur of the scenery, the purity and beauty of the colouring being indescribable, there was no lack of subject, for one could be found at every angle. The scale of the landscape was tremendous. I soon found that a 14" by 10" was too small even to rough-in composition, and something much larger was necessary to portray the magnitude, the imposing force and dignity of those mountains."

In 1929, Leighton resigned from the CPR and settled permanently in Alberta, Canada.