The Rocky Mountains of Canada, Canadian Rockies, or just The Rockies, are defined in the vacation guide produced by some locals and the national parks in Canada’s Rocky Mountains website as “a vast land – filled with inspiring scenery, wildlife, a multitude of recreational activities for all ages and a lot of unique opportunities that only the people who live in this area know about”.
This remote area for many of us could have remain undiscovered if John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) hadn’t painted his famous watercolor A Tent in the Rockies.
The traces of pencil can be discovered in the folds of the tent’s opening as Sargent used to lay out his overall compositions in many of his watercolors with careful pencil drawings.
The strong influence of his friend Claude Monet, the famous Impressionist French painter, can be easily noticed in his brush in mixing colors and fresh beauty of a naturalism, lively mark-making, and a sense of immediacy of this nice painting. Sargent loved working “en plein air”, out of doors, as his friend and many others Impressionists did, trying to capture the fleeting moments of light and colors of nature.
Although born in Florence, CA, US, to wealthy American parents, he studied painting in France, where he enjoyed both critical acclaim and important patronage. He is considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation". He created roguhly 3,000 works mainly watercolors but also oil paintings.
He can be considered also as a precursor of modern tourism in the wild movement and modern glamping tourism trend.
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