[BCMA] MEDIA RELEASE: Art Historian Roger Boulet Talks on Vistas at The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford, Saturday November 20 @ 1pm

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MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release
November 4, 2010



Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway
Art Historian Roger Boulet gives Curator's Talk
Saturday November 20 @ 1 pm at the Reach

Abbotsford, November 4, 2010...The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford hosts a curator's talk by well-known Canadian art historian and curator Roger Boulet, Saturday November 20 at 1pm, 32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford. Boulet guest curated Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway, organized and circulated by the Glenbow Museum of Calgary. Vistas, currently on exhibition at The Reach, features a stunning body of artwork, the first to reveal the Canadian West as a desirable, majestic and awe-inspiring destination.

Roger Boulet is an independent art historian who has written extensively on art in Canada. In addition to his significant knowledge of the work of CPR artists and CPR historical photography, Boulet is the author of numerous books on Canadian art and artists including Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith 1846-1923, and has made significant contributions to scholarship on the work of Walter J. Phillips.

Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway presents original works by over 20 Canadian artists who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, were commissioned by CP to paint, photograph and film the "new west." It was an historic undertaking at an exciting time in our nation's history, and it resulted in art that has since become iconic imagery of the railway and the west.

Many of these works have not been seen for decades. Artists in the exhibition include Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, Albert Bierstadt, William Brymner, Forshaw Day, John Colin Forbes, John Arthur Fraser, Robert Gagen, John Hammond, Thomas Mower Martin, Lucius O'Brien, Edward Roper, Cleveland Rockwell, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne and photographer William McFarlane Notman.  Many of the artists were founding members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, established in 1880.

Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway runs from October 21, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Admission to the exhibition and the curator's talk is free. For more information, please contact Scott Marsden at (604)-864-8087 ext.122.

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