Expanding Horizons: Artists Looking West
Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley 1868
Subtitled “Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860–1918,” this show takes a look at the emerging consciousness of “wilderness” and the environment in American and Canadian landscape art in the years between the American Civil War and the First World War. Counterpointing Canadian and American landscapes in both painting and photography, the show highlights some definitive cultural differences between neighbours in a shared era of western expansion. This showcase of some 200 works by such artists as Bierstadt, Church, Eakins, Hartley, Sargent, Curtis, Muybridge, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand and Watkins, matched by Carr, Cullen, Harris, Jackson, Milne, Morrice, Notman and Thomson, is a feat of research, well presented not only on the walls of the gallery but also in an exceptional catalogue that may be the most attractive publication produced in Canada this year. (1379–80 rue Sherbrooke O, Montreal QC)
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Tom Thomson Northern Lights ca. 1916–17 / photo MBAM |
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