Canada and Impressionism : new horizons, 1880-1930

Book 2019

A detailed chronology explores the multifaceted ways in which Canadians contributed to the evolution of Impressionism. Follow these Canadian artists as they travel abroad and return home again, over a series of journeys taking place during the last decades of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. Approximately 125 masterworks by some 35 artists situate Canadian art within the global phenomenon of Impressionism and present a fresh p...

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ISBN:

9783897905474

Description:

294 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle München, Munich, July 19 - November 17, 2019; Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, January 24 - May 24, 2020; Musée Fabre, Montpellier, June13 - September 27, 2020; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, November 30, 2020 - March 21, 2021
Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-287) and index

Contents:

Prologue: Canada and world Impessionism / Adam Gopnik
Rethinking Impressionism in Canada: an introduction / Katerina Atanassova
Canadian artists abroad: the paradox of Paris / Tobi Bruce
Impressions of France: Canadians in the countryside / Katerina Atanassova
Canadian artists at the water's edge / Sandra Paikowsky
Youth and sunlight: reflections of childhood / Loren Lerner
Quiet pursuits: Canadian Impressionsts and the "new woman" / Anna Hudson
A journey home: Canadian Impressionists return / Laurier Lacroix
Painting Canada: from Impressionism to Modernism / Gerta Moray
Epilogue: New World Impressionism / Tracy Lock
Plates
List of plates
Chronology: Impressionism abroad and at home / Julie Nash and Krista Broeckx

LCCN:

2019396277

Control Number:

2816446

Other Authors:

Bruce, Tobi, contributor
Gopnik, Adam, contributor
Hudson, Anna, 1963- contributor
Lacroix, Laurier, contributor
Lerner, Loren R. (Loren Ruth), 1948- contributor
Lock, Tracey, contributor
Moray, Gerta, contributor
National Gallery of Canada, host institution
Paikowsky, Sandra, contributor
Shipton, Rosemary, 1941- editor

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