Alberta's Best Known Landscape Artist
The Estate of Roland Gissing is proud and honoured to share the legacy of a man who celebrated life in the West. Therefore, we would like to announce the launch of RolandGissing.com, the official website representing Roland Gissing's work as a painter of the Western Canadian landscape and his love of the outdoors.
The website provides a biography of Roland Gissing, a gallery of many of his works, both from private collections and the public domain, as well as historic press clippings and links to related information.
Roland Gissing was an ambassador for the land he painted. Much of the world came to appreciate the foothills and mountains because of him.
Coming to Canada at age 18 in 1913, Roland Gissing became Alberta’s most famous artist by the time he died at age 72. He was truly an artist who was an ambassador for the land he painted and much of the world came to appreciate the foothills and mountains because of him.
Working in oils capturing the beautiful landscapes west of Cochrane at the Ghost Dam where he made his home, it was this medium that created the wheat fields, stooks, and "Gissing Blue Mountains" he is known for.
Today, the Glenbow Museum holds a sizeable collection of Gissings and his works hang in collections around the world.
