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The Painted Valley: Artists Along Alberta's Bow River, 1845-2000
Contributor(s): Armstrong, Christopher (Author), Nelles, H. V. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1552382079     ISBN-13: 9781552382073
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2007
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Annotation: With its dramatic landscape and rugged beauty, Alberta's Bow Valley region has inspired generations of artists. The Painted Valley brings together a collection of works by local and visiting artists from 1845 to 2000 that depict the region from a wide range of viewpoints and in a captivating variety of styles and moods. Authors Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles were inspired by the art of the Bow Valley region while working on an environmental history of the area. Their research in various museums around Alberta uncovered a large and varied collection of images of the Bow River and surrounding valley, representing a broad array of artistic styles and executed at different times throughout history. From European topographers and military artists to painters commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, from the Group of Seven to modernism and abstraction, these views of the Bow Valley say a great deal about changing attitudes toward nature and the environment as well as the evolution of the artistic community in western Canada.
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | Subjects & Themes - Landscapes & Seascapes
- Art | Canadian
Dewey: 760.044
LCCN: 2008371155
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 8.45" W x 10.9" L (1.49 lbs) 176 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 216
 
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With its dramatic landscapes and rugged beauty, Alberta's Bow River valley has inspired generations of artists. The Painted Valley: Artists Along Alberta's Bow River, 1845-2000 brings together a collection of works by local and visiting artists from 1845 to 2000 that captures the many moods of the river and its valley from its source high in the Rocky Mountains down to the city of Calgary and eastward across the open prairie. Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles have selected works from a number of Alberta museums and national collections, which depict the Bow River and its valley, representing a broad array of historical periods, artistic styles, and points of view. From European topographers and military artists to painters commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, from the Group of Seven to modernism and abstraction, these pictures of the Bow valley tell us much about changing attitudes toward nature and the environment as well as the evolution of an artistic community in western Canada.

Contributor Bio(s): Armstrong, Christopher: - Christopher Armstrong is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at York University.Nelles, H. V.: - H.V. Nelles is the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University. Both have written and published extensively on Canadian history and are widely recognized as two of the foremost scholars in the field.
 
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