Landscape paintings depicting scenes from the top of North America to the tip of South America
are on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario until Sept 2015. The collection centers on just over 100 works that were painted between the early 1800s and the eary 1900s.
below: part of a painting, ‘Montmorency Falls’ by Guido Carmignani (Parma Italy 1838-1909)
oil on canvas, 1869
below: Fall Plowing, by Grant Wood (b. and d. Iowa USA), 1931, oil on canvas
below: part of “The Sidewheeler, the ‘City of St. Paul’ on the Mississippi River, Dubuque Iowa”
by Alfred Thompson Bricher (American), oil on canvas, 1872