Landscape as Conversation: Collections, Connections, and the Art Histories

Join AGG Director Shauna McCabe and artist Ron Shuebrook for a conversation about the art histories that underpin exhibition Windfall Light.
About this Event

Reflecting on the relationships that emerge between works from AGG’s collection and contemporary artworks on view, the discussion will consider how artists speak across time through shared practices, subject matter, and engagements with landscape.

Windfall Light brings together twentieth-century painters from AGG’s collection—including William Goodridge Roberts, Doris McCarthy, George Pepper, Kathleen Daly, Evan Macdonald, A. J. Casson, Arthur Lismer, Franklin Carmichael, Edwin Holgate, J. E. H. MacDonald, J. W. Morrice, Tom Thomson, Frederick Varley, and others—with contemporary artists Kim Dorland, Monica Tap, Pearl Van Geest, and Don Russell. Through this conversation, McCabe and Shuebrook will explore the connections at play across the exhibition, considering how works made in different moments illuminate one another through their attention to light, place, memory, and the changing conditions in which they work.

All are welcome, light refreshments will be served.

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Image detail: William Goodridge Roberts, Summer Landscape (Quebec) (detail), undated, oil on canvas, 44.5 × 54.6 cm. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Armstrong, 1989. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Collection at the Art Gallery of Guelph.