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Title:Painted Valley : Artists Along Alberta's Bow River, 1845-2000
Author:Christopher Armstrong & H V Nelles
ISBN:1552382079 : 9781552382073
Illustrations:64 colour plates & 23 b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:215x280mm
Pages:200
Weight: .676 Kg.
Published:University of Calgary Press - November 2007
List Price: 32.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Canada: Painting & paintings: Individual artists


With its dramatic landscape & rugged beauty, Alberta’s Bow Valley region has inspired generations of artists. The Painted Valley brings together a collection of works by local & visiting artists from 1845 to 2000 that depict the region from a wide range of viewpoints & in a captivating variety of styles & moods. Authors Christopher Armstrong & 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 & varied collection of images of the Bow River & surrounding valley, representing a broad array of artistic styles & executed at different times throughout history. From European topographers & military artists to painters commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, from the Group of Seven to modernism & abstraction, these views of the Bow Valley say a great deal about changing attitudes toward nature & the environment as well as the evolution of the artistic community in western Canada.