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Robby might just be one of the only one that can actually entertain Remy without him getting bored fast 🙂‍↕️

EDIT: Okay,,,I added his freckles–

OUGHHH big brothers core,,,Lila is so lucky

Robson belongs to @lucytsukii !!

Lila belongs to @fangedbelladonna !!

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Speaking of Peter Ewart, I see I missed some key paintings in the last few years...

Sold in 2025: GEORGIA ST. WEST oil on hardboard, signed lower right, 8 x 10 in — 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Sold in 2025: BIRK'S CORNER oil on hardboard, signed lower right; titled to gallery label verso 10 x 12 in — 30.5 x 35.6 cm

Sold in 2023: Robson & Burrard Streets, 10" x 12" (25.4 x 30.48 cm.), Oil on board, Signed lower right; titled verso (framed)

Sold in 2022: Boats in False Creek, oil on board, 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm) (unframed)

Sold in 2022: Untitled - Vancouver Harbour and Burrard Street Bridge, oil on board, 10 x 14 in (25.4 x 35.6 cm) (unframed)

Unsold in 2022: Georgia & Granville 10x12 (passed)

His muted colour palette is very endearing when applied to these urban scenes, they are practically timeless if we hadn't demolished the Birks Building decades ago. Based on the car in the first painting, I would say at least three of these paintings are circa 1960s. Not sure who J. Stevens was, whether they simply purchased the painting at Alex Fraser Galleries, or whether this painting was a commission, I can only imagine.

The largest painting of this lot showing boats on False Creek is a scene so familiar it could have been painted yesterday. But of course Peter passed away in 2001, so it's already from another era. We don't see the reverse of that last painting, but the first painting which did have a dealer sticker on the back reveals the address 5669 Granville. This means it had to have been sold from 1948 until around 1967. But the sticker also had an old style phone number, AM 6-6010 which suggests we can probably narrow down the time between 1959 and 1966. The AMherst (AM) telephone exchange prefix was used in the Vancouver Westside area, specifically Kerrisdale, before the transition to 7-digit dialing in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. This was a progressive change so not everyone's phone number changed at once.

Searching for Peter's name in the local papers, it becomes apparent that Peter was exhibited and featured at Alex Fraser Galleries CONSTANTLY during this period, typically being advertised multiple times per year, often right before Christmas. This likely stems from his popularity gained from the BC Tel phone book cover I most recently posted about. And low and behold, I found not one but THREE articles featuring the very cover I was missing, the 1959 telephone directory. That cover featured a cattle drive at Gang Ranch near Dog Creek in the Cariboo. I shall now update that last post with those three articles, and I still await an actual image of the phonebook. By 1967, Alex Fraser had moved his gallery to 2027 W 41 St, and by the early 1970s, Peter Ewart no longer seems to be exclusively bound to the Alex Fraser Gallery, appearing in a number of gallery advertisements.

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