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Nancy Townshend
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A History of Art in Alberta 1905 - 1970 provides, for the first time, a comprehensive coverage of the development of art in this western province of Canada between 1905 and 1970. It is a compelling narrative beginning with two lonely modernists, Maxwell Bates and W. L. Stevenson practising Expressionism in isolated Alberta and the contrasting art of British-trained artists/teachers A. C. Leighton and H. G. Glyde. It then documents the extraordinary support of the Carnegie Corporation during Alberta’s Depression; painting of the Alaska Highway by Peace River artists Euphemia McNaught and Evy McBryan during WWII; post-war modernism featuring Expressionism, abstraction, sense of place, art of fantasy, art of social commentary, metaphor and non-objectivity; Alberta’s crafts and the democratization of the arts; and public art.
Townshend carefully presents the full flowering of an authentic grassroots culture. She tells us what Alberta’s art to 1970 was rather than what it wasn’t.
About the Author:
A writer and curator of Alberta art since 1974, Nancy Townshend is the authorof Maxwell Bates: Canada’s Premier Expressionist of the 20th Century (2005). She is the co-curator for the major exhibition Maxwell Bates: At The Crossroadsof Expressionism (2004-2006) for the Edmonton Art Gallery. She is also content specialist for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s Virtual Museum of Canada www.maxwellbates.net on Maxwell Bates: Artist, Architect, Writer (2004 - 2009). A fourth-generation Albertan, Townshend received her MA in theHistory of Art from the University of Toronto in 1973.
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