Landscape artist E.J. Hughes, best known for capturing British Columbia's coast on canvas, has died at the age of 93.
Hughes died of cardiac arrest on Friday after being rushed to a Duncan, B.C., hospital.
Often hailed as the successor to Emily Carr, Hughes received the Emily Carr Scholarship in 1947 after being nominated by Lawren Harris.
Born in North Vancouver in 1913 and partly raised in Nanaimo, Hughes studied at the Vancouver School of Applied Art and Design under such teachers as Jock Macdonald and Group of Seven member Frederick Varley.
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