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 TD Gallery Exhibit
Capturing Canada on Paper and Canvas Curated by Tania Henley and Alan Walker The TD Gallery exhibition includes thirty-seven landscape views of Canadian art from the 1780s to the 1910s by notable Canadian artists William Armstrong, Anthony R.V. Crease, John A. Fleming, Anne Langton, William G.R. Hind, Lucius O'Brien, James Peachey, George Reid and others. In the era before the camera, artists, surveyors and engineers captured the nuances of Canada's diverse scenery, including its waterways, shorelines, mountains, plains and vegetation. Whether their goal was to document the land's topography for the placement of fortifications and settlements or to create aesthetic works of art from their travels, these early trailblazers have left us with a lasting record of the Canadian landscape before and during colonial expansion. Enjoy the richness, the diversity and the glory of Canada through this selection of paintings, drawings and prints from the library's Canadian Historical Picture Collection, Baldwin Room, Special Collections.
Related Programming: Screening of C. W. Jefferys Picturing Canada (2005) Screening of From Field to Studio: the art of Paul Kane (2006) Director John Bessai will introduce both films.
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![Kakebeka Falls, Ontario. Kaministikwia River [Exhibit Poster]](images/td_gallery/09_jan_mar_capturing_canada/armstrong_kakebeka.jpg)
