« erwin wurm. adorno was wrong regarding his theory on art | Main | The Road : Constructing the Alaskan Highway »
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Lucius O’Brien: Sunrise on the Saguenay
Art GAllery of Alberta: April 8–May 28
Lucius O’Brien’s painting Sunrise on the Saguenay of 1880 is a landmark work in the history of Canadian art and a major work in the artist’s career. The painting was submitted on O’Brien’s appointment as the first President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts by the Governor General of Canada, the Marquess of Lorne. Since then, it has become a key image of the growth of the arts in Canada, and of the building of a nation. At the same time, the image is linked to several decades of tourism on the lower St. Lawrence River, as well as to the identity of Québec City as the former bastion of British North America. ...