The Painted Valley
Subtitle: Artists Along AlbertaÆs Bow River, 1845û2000
Publisher: Michigan State University Press; University of Calgary Press
Published: November 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781552382073
Subjects: Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Canada - Western Provinces; Canadian; Individual Artist; Art; 19th century; 20th century; Art, Modern; Bow River Valley (Alta.); Pictorial works
Description: "With its dramatic landscapes and rugged beauty, Alberta's Bow River valley has inspired generations of artists. The Painted Valley brings together a collection of works by local and visiting artists from 1845 to 2000 that captures the many moods of the river from its source high in the Rocky Mountains down to the city to Calgary and eastward across the open prairie." "Authors 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 modernists and abstractionists, these pictures of the Bow valley tell us much about changing attitudes toward nature and the environment as well as the evolution of an artists community in western Canada."--BOOK JACKET.