The Painted Valley: Artists along Alberta’s Bow River, 1845-2000



						The Painted Valley: Artists along Alberta’s Bow River, 1845-2000
						Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles $54.95 November 2007 ISBN 978-155238-207-3 8.5" x 11" 200 p.p. 64 colour plates, 23 B&W photographs Art History Canadian History
				About the Book
				With its dramatic landscape and rugged beauty, Alberta’s Bow Valley region has inspired generations of artists. The Painted Valley brings together a collection of works by local and visiting artists from 1845 to 2000 that depict the region from a wide range of viewpoints and in a captivating variety of styles and moods. Authors Christopher Armstrong and 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 and varied collection of images of the Bow River and surrounding valley, representing a broad array of artistic styles and executed at different times throughout history. From European topographers and military artists to painters commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, from the Group of Seven to modernism and abstraction, these views of the Bow Valley say a great deal about changing attitudes toward nature and the environment as well as the evolution of the artistic community in western Canada.
				About the Author
				H.V. Nelles is the L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University. Christopher Armstrong is professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University. Both have written and published extensively on Canadian history and are widely recognized as two of the foremost scholars in the field.
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