ON SITE WITH MAURICE HAYCOCK, ARTIST OF THE ARCTIC: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF HISTORICAL SITES IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

摘要

A geologist by profession, Maurice Haycock (1900-88) first went to the Arctic with the Geological Survey of Canada in 1926. Travelling north with the Eastern Arctic Patrol on board Beothic, he was present at Bache Peninsula at the establishment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment there. Then, as Beothic worked her way back south, he and a companion were dropped off at Pangnirtung, and over the following year they carried out a survey of the Cumberland Sound and Nettilling Lake areas. They were picked up again by Beothic on 22 August 1927. The artist A.Y. Jackson was also on board, and, as well as recording that Haycock and Weeks had come aboard, he included a pencil sketch of Haycock in a series of portrait studies of individuals on board the ship (Jackson 1982). Thereafter, Haycock and Jackson became close friends until the latter's death in 1974, and there is a certain resemblance in their painting styles.