Attention: Arts and Culture Editors, Canadian Heritage Editors, Gallery Exhibit Listing Editors
Capturing Canada on Paper and Canvas
Toronto Public Library Gallery Exhibit Opens Saturday January 31
Toronto (Monday, January 19, 2009) – Toronto Public Library will present Capturing Canada on Paper and Canvas, an exhibition of Canadian landscape paintings and drawings by sixteen artists from the 1780s to the 1910s.
What: Capturing Canada on Paper and Canvas
When: Opens Saturday, January 31; on display until Sunday, March 1, 2009
Where: TD Gallery, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.,
Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
Sunday, 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
This exhibition features oil paintings, water colours, drawings and prints by notable Canadian artists William Armstrong, Anne Langton, Anthony R. V. Crease, John A. Fleming, Lucius O’Brien, James Peachey, George A. Reid and Anna Jameson.
The exhibit tours Canada’s distinctive landmarks, visiting some of the country’s earliest settlements. It features 37 landscape views from Newfoundland in the east, to British Columbia in the west, the Arctic in the north and the expansive areas in between.
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.
Related Programming:
Wednesday, February 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Screening of C. W. Jefferys Picturing Canada (2005)
Wednesday, February 25 at 2:00 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street
Screening of From Field to Studio: the art of Paul Kane (2006)
Toronto film director John Bessai will introduce both films.
For more information about the exhibit, free tours and other related programming, call 416-393-7158 or visit the library website, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca, click on Programs and Events to enjoy the virtual exhibit.
For more information about Toronto Public Libraires Special Collections, call 416-393-7158 or visit the library website, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca and click on Collections.
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Media Contact: Edward Karek, Communications Officer (416) 397-5925
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