Image Title: Toni Onley: Arctic Mountain Source: Bahamas in the Arctic Creator: Onley, Toni, 1928 – 2004. Commented by Claude Péloquin Publisher: 1986 – 1987 Call Number: ND249.O55 A4 1986b Learn More Tags: arctic, painting, snow

 

With funds raised through the sale of a collection of watercolours, Canadian landscape artist Toni Onley bought a Wilga ’80 aircraft. He loved to fly, sketching while piloting his plane through storms. With his plane, he accessed remote stretches of stunning landscape, and these images filled his canvases. But not all of his flying adventures were happy. In 1983, he and photographer John Reeves crashed on a glacial crevasse. They were rescued and survived. On February 29, 2004, he crashed again, this time into the Fraser River. Tragically, he did not survive.

This image can be found in Bahamas in the Arctic at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (ND249.O55 A4 1986b; leaf 10).

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