num_pages: 161
description: Henry Alexander Carmichael (H.A.C.) Jackson was born in Montreal in 1877, the eldest of six children. H.A.C. left school at fourteen to help provide for his family, finding work as a commercial artist. His career in this field was long but inauspicious; if it was not for his passion and talent as an amateur mycologist and botanical artist, H.A.C.’s name would be lost in the annals of time. Mr. Jackson’s Mushrooms is divided into three parts. The first, an introduction by editor Mimi Cazort, includes an analysis of H.A.C.’s painting technique and a brief biography of the artist. This biography describes a passionate, intelligent man, an avid outdoorsman and early environmentalist who once traded 250 mushroom specimens for back copies of the New York Botanical Gardens’ expensive year book Mycologia.
language: English
title: Mr. Jackson's Mushrooms
titlecomplete: Mr. Jackson's Mushrooms
genres: History, Art, Nature
ratings_count: 4
publisher: National Gallery of Canada : National Museums of Canada