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Arts Sutton Gallery is pleased to present, for the second year in a row, a series of lectures given by well-known figures in the cultural community. The second lecture in this series is The Painters and Landscape of the Eastern Townships and will be held on October 25 at 2:00 p.m.Presented as part of the exhibition Spotlight on the Eastern Townships, which showcases the work of eleven Township artists, the lecture offers an overview of the development of landscape painting in the Eastern Townships.
Building on a shared heritage of images, painted landscapes are constructed and transformed through the vision of each artist who creates them. In the 19th century, the realistic drawings of surveyor Joseph Bouchette, the picturesque engravings of William Bartlett, the romantic canvases of Cornelius Krieghoff, and the luminous scenes of Allan Edson and John Fraser helped depict a harmonious relationship between human enterprise and the natural world.
The 20th century brought with it development of the land, expansion of towns and villages and the transformation of the natural world, but artists, including Mary Catharine Gill, Jean-Paul Lemieux, Goodridge Roberts and John Lyman continued to represent the land and their emotional response to it, conveying a sense of beauty, grandeur and belonging. Basing her lecture on the interpretations of these artists, art historian Monique Nadeau-Saumier will explain how landscape painting developed in our region.
Photo of Monique-Nadeau courtesy of Imacom by Martin Blache. Photo supplied by Sutton Gallery.Monique Nadeau-Saumier has a master’s in Canadian art history from Concordia University, a master’s in museology from the Université de Montréal and a doctorate in art history from UQÀM. She has taught art history and the art and architecture of Canada, the decorative arts and museology at Bishop’s University for 15 years, and has been administrative director of the Eastern Townships Research Centre, also at Bishop’s University. She is very involved with museums and has worked with a number of them in the Townships, including the Colby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead, where she was director and curator from 1999 to 2003.
The lecture will be offered in French. Tickets are on sale at the Gallery and the cost is $12.50 for member and $15 for non-members. The Gallery is located at 7 Academy St. in Sutton and is open from Thursday to Sunday, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We look forward to seeing you at the lecture. It offers surprising discoveries about the work by the artists from this region.
Source : Arts Sutton Gallery
For information : Catherine Audet, Gallery Coordinator
(450) 538-2563 info @artssutton.com
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