River of Dreams

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Published
16 July 2024
ISBN
9781773104287

River of Dreams

River of Dreams celebrates the unique ways that Impressionism was practised by artists in Quebec, offering a close look at the work of such luminaries as Clarence Gagnon, Henrietta Mabel May, James Wilson Morrice, and Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote. These artists documented the shoreline of the St. Lawrence and its surrounding regions, from Montreal downriver to Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Arthabaska, Quebec, Beaupre, and Charlevoix.

The Quebec Impressionists were painting at a time of considerable industrial and social change in Quebec, and their choices about what to paint proved pivotal in cementing an image of the province as a site of both industry and leisure -- whether in scenes of the industrial port of Montreal, or others capturing the traditional rural way of life in small villages.

Featuring a lead essay by curator Anne-Marie Bouchard; reflections on individual painters by leading artists, curators, and scholars; and more than 175 full-colour images (including reproductions of more than 100 paintings; examples of textiles, pottery, and Indigenous trade goods of the period; and archival photographs), River of Dreams is a magnificent tribute to a movement that shaped Canadian art.

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