Pertains to a collection of work from early painters in Alberta. The artists under discussion in the publication are as follows: Maxwell Bates, Roland Gissing, H.G. Glyde, Nicholas de Grandmaison, John Innes, Illingworth H. Kerr, A.C. Leighton, Doris Jean McCarthy, Janet Mitchell, Jim Nicoll, Marion Nicoll, Stanford E. Blodgett, Rick Grandmaison, R.L. Harvey, Luke Lindoe, Matt Lindstrom, Walter Joseph Phillips, Clifford Robinson, Margaret Shelton, John Snow, and John Sugden Tempest. The publication explores the unique work of each artist, as well as the ways they influenced the Alberta art scene.