Canada on Canvas
A major survey captures four and a half centuries of landscape painting November 2011
The few survey textbooks on Canadian art are, for the most part, out of date, out of print and meagrely illustrated. One of my colleagues bemoans the fact that Ralph Greenhill and Andrew Birrell’s Canadian Photography, 1839–1920, published in 1979, is still the one and only text on the history of photography in Canada (currently out of print in both the original and revised editions) as often as she is given the opportunity to do…