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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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2952377 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

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Reasoned, historically informed, and highly literary blend of landscape art and its appreciation.

Compiled by history professor emeritus Christopher Armstrong and Canadian history professor H.V. Nelles, The Painted Valley: Artists Along Alberta's Bow River, 1845-2000 is a gathering of artworks of the beautiful Bow River valley in Alberta, Canada, as drawn by both local and visiting artists. Black-and-white as well as color plates illustrate this broad survey of works reflecting a variety of historical periods, artistic styles, and points of view. The extensive text offers a thoughtful discussion of works by European topographers, military artists, painters commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, modernists, abstractionists, and much more. An index rounds out this reasoned, historically informed, and highly literary blend of landscape art and its appreciation.