A.C. Leighton Painting at the Valley of the Ten Peaks
![Black and white photo of man wearing fringed buckskin jacket, hat and smoking pipe, painting in a mountain landscape.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/the-leighton-legacy_heritage-de-leighton/wp-content/uploads/sites/114/2019/10/2010.04.348.jpg)
Credit: Leighton Art Centre Museum & Archives
“He was just about 6 foot tall, very slight […] and very, very tough. Nothing seemed to really get him down. I thought I was a fairly active individual but he could wear me out 10 times.”—Barbara Leighton