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A sublime vernacular : the landscape paintings of Levine Flexhaug / Nancy Tousley, Peter White.

Title
A sublime vernacular : the landscape paintings of Levine Flexhaug / Nancy Tousley, Peter White.
Publication
  • Grande Prairie, AB, Canada : Art Gallery of Grande Prairie ; Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Flexhaug, Levine, 1918-1974.
  • Tousley, Nancy.
  • White, Peter, 1949-
  • Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, issuing body, host institution.
Description
159 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits; 22 x 27 cm
Summary
"The publication examines the paintings and career of Levine Flexhaug, an artist who sold variations of a basic mountain landscape scene in locations across western Canada from the late 1930s through the 1960s. The publication includes colour reproductions of 108 of his paintings and a full chronology in addition to texts."--
Alternative Title
Landscape paintings of Levine Flexhaug
Subject
  • Flexhaug, Levine, 1918-1974 > Exhibitions
  • Flexhaug, Levine, 1918-1974 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Flexhaug, Levine, 1918-1974
  • Flexhaug, Levine, 1918-1974 > Critique et interprétation
  • Landscape painters > Canada > Biography
  • Paysagistes > Canada > Biographies
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • "Published on the occasion of the exhibition A sublime vernacular: the landscape paintings of Levine Flexhaug, organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada"--Colophon.
  • Catalogue of an exhibition held at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, and four other locations between May 23, 2016 and September 3, 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Griffith Aaron Baker -- There was magic in his brush / Peter White -- Levine Flexhaug and the ideal landscape / Nancy Tousley -- A mountain fantasy's prairie roots / Peter White -- Making art for the market : Flexhaug in context / Wayne Morgan and Sharilyn J. Ingram -- Imaginary postcards : (flex)ible storytelling of a (lost and found) Canadian mythmaking / Elena Lamberti -- Chronology / Nancy Tousley -- List of works by Levine Flexhaug -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors.
ISBN
  • 9780994726902 (bound)
  • 0994726902 (bound)
OCLC
  • 905735758
  • SCSB-10076048
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library