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    Up at the Lake: Summer Cottage Memories
    Up at the Lake: Summer Cottage Memories
    Up at the Lake: Summer Cottage Memories
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    Up at the Lake: Summer Cottage Memories

    By Robert Amos

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    Canadian artist Robert Amos opens his scrapbook of watercolor paintings, sketches and old family photographs to give us a poetic and personal account of early childhood memories at a Muskoka Lakes cottage.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrow Cottage Publishing
    Release dateAug 22, 2017
    ISBN9781987848540
    Up at the Lake: Summer Cottage Memories
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    Robert Amos

    Robert Amos has published eleven books on art—including four bestselling volumes on the life and work of beloved Canadian artist E. J. Hughes—and was the arts columnist for Victoria’s Times Colonist newspaper for more than thirty years. Amos was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1995 and is an Honorary Citizen of Victoria. He lives in Oak Bay, British Columbia, with his wife, artist Sarah Amos.

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