"Canada's landscape and how people relate to it have been predominant themes in Canadian painting. Exploration of this vast and richly varied environment, people's place within it and their attitudes toward it have been driving forces in Canadian art since the beginning of secular imagery in the country. Whether it was early artists such as Robert Clow Todd and Cornelius Krieghoff documenting the winter wonderland of nineteeth-century Quebec, or The Group of Seven exploring the length and breadth of the country through their practice, succeeding generations of artists have made a significant contribution to our understanding of the country.Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to The Group of Seven combines over 150 works from the Vancouver Art Gallery's permanent collection and an eminent private collection of Canadian painting to present a comprehensive survey of Canadian landscapes made between the mid-eighteenth and mid- nineteenth centuries."--Avant-propos page 7.

Curated by Ian Thom.

Foreword / Kathleen S. Bartels -- Embracing Canada: landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven / Ian M. Thom -- Portraying Indigenous Peoples in nineteenth-century art: conciliatory, resistant, immutable / Louise Vigneault -- Revisiting Charlotte Schreiber / Tobi Bruce -- Barbizon aesthetics in Canadian landscape painting / Brian Foss -- Figures in the landscape en plein air / Christine Boyanoski -- No timid play of subtleties, but bold and massive design: the Group of Seven and the Canadian landscape / Charles Hill -- Five Quebec landscape painters, in search of spirituality and indentity / Michele Grandbois -- Emily Carr and the visionary British Columbia landscape / Gerta Moray -- White space: David B. Milne and the modern landscape / Sarah Milroy -- A picture as a living thing: Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald and landscape / Liz Wylie.