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From Website: http://www.architecturecanada.org/SSAC/AGM2000/t2kabstract2.html
Robert MacKay Fripp: Peripatetic Architect of the Pacific Rim
Michael Milojevic School of Architecture, University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
When the thirty-year old Robert MacKay Fripp set down in the port of Vancouver in March 1888 it had been some twenty months since the city's catastrophic fire. The city's redevelopment, reaching beyond the burnt foreshore settlement, tackled the almost impossibly rough rock outcrops and stumps to the smooth and orthogonal preparations for architecture. Fripp was Vancouver's fifth architect, the second Englishman, and only to approach from the Pacific, Auckland to be precise. One of Fripp's first Vancouver projects, his own house, stood alone (as we see it in an archival photograph) on the bare foreshore of Coal Harbour. Fripp formulated 'an ordinary architecture for extraordinary places' stressing functional (modern) planning and massive, squared and unornamented utilitarian joinery. For thirty years however Fripp's essays and designs for houses (and a few, mainly unrealised, institutional and monumental projects about 120 items in all, and especially his handful of 'Letters from B.C.' in CAB served, almost alone, to convey to Canadians 'the West Coast scene'. Indeed throughout his life the peripatetic Fripp was an architectural messenger for the Vancouver architectural community: when he first arrived there from the Antipodes and again in 1898 after he retried to establish himself in practice here from 1896, then after returning from London in 04 and in 09 after after a decade of practice in Pasadena. From the Auckland perspective also he advertised his worldly opinions with reference to his works in America. In this paper I shall outline Fripp's roles and contributions to the advent of the Vancouver house in Canadian consciousness and the 'modern' house in Auckland while clearing up some attribution misconceptions. I will register the Picturesque ancestry of Fripp's notions: from Humphrey Repton and others Fripp affirmed the physical and metaphorical place of the cottage in the rough 'exotic' natural backdrops of ocean and coastal wild Pacific (in this case) landscapes of both Vancouver and Auckland.
Found at : http://sea-to-sky.net/local/oldtree/geo-hist/place.names.sq.txt
(Re: Place names in Squamish Valley, British Columbia)
FRIPP LAKE Named for Robert M. Fripp who travelled with A.D. Horne, Henry H. McKay and Squamish guides Capilano Joe and Joe to find the source of Capilano Creek. (May 21-28, 1890). Source: Matthews, J.S. Map. City Archives, Vancouver. (MAP P.51 N.86)
See feature page here.
Thomas W. Fripp was born March 23, 1864 in London, England. In 1893 he left Britain to settle in British Columbia. The subject of Fripp's art. Two strains of influence shaped the artist's development. Fripp was born into a family bound to the academic tradition. Fripp's grandfather, Nicholas Pocock, founded the Royal Watercolour Society. His brother, Charles Fripp was a watercolourist, whom also moved to Canada. Charles Edwin painted scenes of the Klondike gold rush and the lives of natives in Canada. Their father, George A. Fripp was a watercolourist who studied art with his son Thomas in London. The British tradition of watercolour painting consisted largely of landscape subject matter. The style was highly constructed and academic. Fripp's adherence to this form of painting seems logical considering his family's support of the style. Growing up and studying within the British culture seems to have been the greatest influence on his work. During this time, the prevailing style was academic, and centered around polite society. Writing, poetry, philosophy, and art were focused around aesthetics, and the moral effects such arts had on society. Fripp studied at St. John's Wood Art School and the Royal Academy School in London, from 1883 to 1890, and hence was conscious of British landscape painting styles and ideals.Fripp immigrated to Vancouver British Columbia in 1893 determined to transform the rugged countryside into farm land, pursuing life as a farmer on the frontier as opposed to an artist on the frontier. He had persisted until 1904 when an accident prohibited him from farming and forced him into returning to water colour painting on a permanent basis. Stave 1906 was created shortly thereafter. He primarily concentrated on the British Columbian landscape- executing numerous scenes of the rocky mountains as well as views of the land. Fripp was one of the principle founders of the British Columbia Society of Artists in 1908 and served as its president for many years. He was active in the arts for nearly thirty years until his death in Victoria in 1931.
- Leonard Komanac, Kari Riddell, Missy Van Orman
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Thomas W. Fripp was born in London, England in 1864, the 12th son of George Arthur Fripp, a painter for Queen Victoria. Young Tom studied are in Venice, Florence and Sienna before finally returning to England where he enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1867 to continue his studies in watercolors, doing landscapes.
He moved to Quebec in 1893 and eventually to Hatzic, BC, where he became the cultural focus of his home town. He worked in Vancouver for 2 years, where his groqing reputation as an artist who was enhanced by winning a Gold Medal for portraits in 1905. He taught art in the Crafton House, a private school for girls.
Tom Fripp and a small band of individuals formed the BC Society of Fine Arts and received their charter in 1909. They were the first charted art society in BC. He started, promoted and nurtured most of the significant art organizations and institutions in the province. It was stated in 1920 that Tom Fripp had probably done more for the cause of art in Vancouver than any other man.
Tom Fripp had relatives living in Tulameen and used to visit there often, as a result he had connections to Princeton and this part of BC.
1881 Census:
Dwelling: 28 Elm Grove
Census Place: Tranmere, Cheshire, England
Source: FHL Film 1341858 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 3584 Folio 12 Page 20
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Edward J. DRIFFIELD M 29 M Prescot, Lancashire, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Solicitor
Ella D. DRIFFIELD M 27 F Clifton, Gloucester, England
Rel: Wife
Muriel G. DRIFFIELD 2 F Tranmere, Cheshire, England
Rel: Daur
Edward B. DRIFFIELD 11 m M Tranmere, Cheshire, England
Rel: Son
Margaret Ann SMITH U 21 F Little Bolton, Lancashire, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Gen Serv
Rosina TRUNNELL W 32 F St Anstall, Cornwall, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Nurse
1881 Census:
Dwelling: 28 Elm Grove
Census Place: Tranmere, Cheshire, England
Source: FHL Film 1341858 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 3584 Folio 12 Page 20
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Edward J. DRIFFIELD M 29 M Prescot, Lancashire, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Solicitor
Ella D. DRIFFIELD M 27 F Clifton, Gloucester, England
Rel: Wife
Muriel G. DRIFFIELD 2 F Tranmere, Cheshire, England
Rel: Daur
Edward B. DRIFFIELD 11 m M Tranmere, Cheshire, England
Rel: Son
Margaret Ann SMITH U 21 F Little Bolton, Lancashire, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Gen Serv
Rosina TRUNNELL W 32 F St Anstall, Cornwall, England
Rel: Serv
Occ: Nurse