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  • 1859 Owls Head Lake Memphremagog low res

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    Skinner's Cave & Owl's Head Mountain, Lake Memphremagog

    Eastern Townships, Southern Quebec

    Cornelius Krieghoff, 1859

    Oil on canvas

    Private Collection

    Artistic Style:

    Sublime Realism

  • 1678 c A Facsimilie View of Niagara Falls low res

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    Chûte d'eau de Niagara

    Niagara Falls, Ontario

    Louis Hennepin, 1678 c.

    Lithograph

    Library & Archives of Canada, R9266-2197

    Artistic Style:

    Field Sketch

  • 1841 Eboulis au Cap Diamant low res

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    Eboulis Au Cap Diamant

    Quebec City, Quebec

    Joseph Legare, 1841

    Oil on canvas

    Collection of Small Seminary

    Artistic Style:

    Social Realism

  • 1820 Expedition Crossing Lake Prosperous low res

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    Expedition Crossing Lake Prosperous

    Near Great Slave Lake, NWT

    Robert Hood, 1820

    Water color on paper

    National Archives of Canada, 49071

    Artistic Style:

    Realism

  • 2001 Knifes Ridge Dinosaur Provincial Park low res

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    Knife's Ridge, Dinosaur Provincial Park

    South-central Alberta

    Roberta Bondar, 2001

    B&W photographic print

    Artist's collection

    Artistic Style:

    Not applicable

  • 1990 Lance Point Rock low res

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    Lance Point Rock

    Lance Point, Avalon Peninsula, NFL

    Christopher Pratt, 1990

    Oil on color serlgraph on rising museum board

    National Gallery of Canada, 41616

    Artistic Style:

    realism, precisionism

  • 1930 Mount Thule on Bylot Island low res

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    Mount Thule on Bylot Island

    South shore Bylot Island, Nunavut

    Lawren Harris, 1930

    Oil on canvas

    Vancouver Art Gallery, Women's Auxillary 49.6

    Artistic Style:

    Art deco

  • 1766 c Niagara Falls from Below low res

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    Niagara Falls from Below

    Niagara Falls, Ontario

    Thomas Davies, 1766 c

    Water color & gouache over graphite on paper

    NY Historical Society Collection, 1954.3

    Artistic Style:

    Topographical drawing
    in picturesque

  • 1907 On Yukon Waters low res

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    On Yukon Waters

    Near Kalzas Mountain, Central Yukon

    Carl Rungius, 1907

    Oil on canvas

    Glenbow Museum Collection, 55.5.1

    Artistic Style:

    Realism

  • 1916 Petawawa Gorges Night low res

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    Petawawa Gorges, Night

    Algonquin Provincial Park, Eastern Ontario

    Tom Thomson, 1916

    Oil on wood

    National Gallery of Canada, 15548

    Artistic Style:

    Expressionism -
    approaching abstraction

  • 1690 c Petit Plaissance Fishing Station low res

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    Petit Plaissance, Fishing Station

    Placentia Bay, Avalon Peninsula, NFL

    Gerard Van Edema, 1690 c.

    Oil on wood

    Royal Ontario Museum, 957.91

    Artistic Style:

    Realism

  • 1930 Ravenscrag Rosss Ranch low res

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    Ravenscrag, Ross's Ranch

    Southwestern Saskatchewan

    Illingsworth Kerr, 1930

    Oil on canvas

    Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Collection, 1934-001

    Artistic Style:

    Expressionism

  • Featured Image: Sunrise on the Saguenay Cape Trinity, Lucius O'Brien, 1880

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    Sunrise on the Saguenay, Cape Trinity

    Saguenay River, Quebec

    Lucius O'Brien, 1880

    Oil on canvas

    National Gallery of Canada, 113

    Artistic Style:

    Romanticism, Luminism

  • Thomas Lee Inlet Bruemmer

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    Thomas Lee Inlet

    Thomas Lee Inlet, Devon Island, Nunavut

    Fred Bruemmer, 1967

    Medium: B&W photographic print

    Fred Bruemmer Estate

    Artistic Style:

    Not applicable

  • 2006 Who will guard the door when I am sleeping low res

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    Who will guard the door when I am sleeping?

    Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick

    Dan Steeves, 2006

    intaglio print on paper

    Artist's collection Hopewell Rocks

    Artistic Style:

    Symbolic Realism

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Demo Description

The Foundations project has been worked on for many years and has been supported by a number of volunteers and organizations. Without their contributions the website and its content would never have seen the light of day.

Concept and initial reveal to the public

During the planning stages of the  GeoCanada 2010 convention in Calgary, the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences, the newly formed umbrella organization that had arisen from the ashes of the Geoscience Council of Canada, wished both to engage the lay public as well as introduce itself to the members of its constituent societies and organizations. Ian Young and Jeff Packard came to the conclusion that a series of large-scale posters marrying iconic Canadian art with geosciences might prove an attractive, informative and a cost-effective means to reach both audiences. Landscapes were to be the unifying theme.

From the outset we reached out to the Glenbow Museum and Melanie Kjorlien, director of ___, graciously came onboard and the Glenbow provided vital in-kind support, loaned digital artwork from their collection and acted as intermediaries with other archives and art museums across Canada. Critically, Travis Lutely, an employee of the Glenbow, researched and wrote up the artistic critiques for the artwork we were going to feature as well as many of the artist biographies. This project is truly indebted to Melanie and Travis.

On the Earth Sciences side we contacted provincial and territorial geological surveys, the GSC, and key members of geo-societies across Canada (as well as colleagues closer at hand), seeking volunteers to provide content on pioneer geoscientists who might have mapped the landscapes that had also captured the imagination and talent of a specific artist. The following persons very kindly stepped forward to provide that content:  Maurice Colpron, Neil Dawson, Jon Dudley, Karen Dudley, David Elliott, Phillipe Ferron, Paul Glomick, Fran Haidl, Stephen Howell, Gwen Martin, Rebecca Melenka, Jeff Packard, Lynden Penner, Charlie Roots, Ian Young, and Troy Zimmer.

A Web-based project

After a successful debut at the conference it was eventually decided that the project would most productively continue to exist as a web-based educational resource. In order to make this happen Foundations received generous grants from the Canadian Geological Foundation.

Subsequent contributions to the project have been made by Ollie Bonham, Eileen Van der Flier-Keller, and Marc Charest.

Loan of digital images

We gratefully acknowledge the loan of images from the following institutions: Glenbow Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Archives and Library of Canada, Mackenzie Art Gallery, New York Historical Society, Geological Survey of Canada

On the geosciences side we must add a profuse thank you to Nick Eyles and Andrew Miall for permission to reproduce images from their book, Canada Rocks. In the same vein we very gratefully acknowledge the use of images from the book Four Billion years and Counting, published by the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences.

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