topic:"Exhibitions" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Catalogue of an exhibition first held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 18 to Sept. 27, 2009 and then travelling to Vancouver Art Gallery, from Oct. 17, 2009 to Janu. 17, 2010. Issued also in French under title: Grandeur nature : peinture et photographie des paysages ame´ricains et canadiens de 1860 a` 1918.

Contents: Endangered horizons / Nathalie Bondil -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Crossed destinies: manifesting the paths of nationhood in the United States and Canada through Landscapes, 1860-1918 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Flexible frontiers: expansion, contraction, regeneration / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Nature transcendent -- The most northerly horizon / Rosalind Pepall -- The forest, Niagara and the sublime / Franc¸ois-Marc Gagnon -- Works -- The stage of history and the theatre of myth -- Looking at landscape in athe age of environmentalism / Lynda Jessup -- Too silent to be real / Richard Hill -- Works -- Man versus nature -- Painting and photography in British Columbia, 1871-1916: some observations / Ian Thom -- Works -- Nature domesticated -- Word and image: North American landscape in nineteenth-century illustrated publications / Brian Foss -- John Singer Sargent's adventurous summer in the Canadian Rockies: the visit to rh Yoho Valley in 1916 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Works -- The urban landscape -- "To pavements and homesteads here" : landscape, photography, and the transcendence of time and space / Philip Brookman -- Works -- The return of nature -- Introduction -- Works.

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Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at Glenbow, Calgary, Aberta, June to November 5, 2000. Includes bibliographical references.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references - development of Glenbow Museum exhibit featuring "mavericks" in early Alberta history like Emilio Picariello, D.W. Davis, James Mah Poy, Tom Three Persons', Fred McCall, Japanese-Canadians as "enemy aliens"

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