Title & Author:

Alexander Henderson : art and nature / edited by Hélène Samson and Suzanne Sauvage.

Publication:

Paris : Éditions Hazan ; Montreal : McCord Museum, [2022]
©2022

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical table, portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Also published in French under the title: Alexander Henderson : art et nature.
"Alexander Henderson - Art and Nature has been published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name presented at the McCord Museum from June 10, 2022 to April 16, 2023" -- Copyright page.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Suzanne Sauvage -- Alexander Henderson, landscape photographer / Stanley G. Triggs -- Alexander Henderson's family tree / Nathalie Houle -- The dawn of the Canadian landscape : a colonial vision / Hélène Samson -- Art and nature.

Summary:

"Scottish-born Alexander Henderson (1831-1913) arrived in Montreal in 1855 at the age of twenty-four, eager to explore the Canadian wilderness. Photography, his observation tool, would also reveal a remarkable artistic sensibility. Little known among the general public, his work laid the foundations of the Canadian romantic landscape and its themes: the magic of winter, the endless lure of the country's lakes and waterways, the metaphysical awe inspired by the vastness of its land and its great river. But Henderson also offered a colonial vision of the young North American city and documented a number of Canada's major railway projects. This publication accompanies the first exhibition devoted to Alexander Henderson's entire oeuvre and focusses on photographs that highlight the tonalities, textures, and clarity characteristic of the prints of the period. Texts explore Henderson's biography, the sources and forms of romanticism evident in his landscapes, and the genesis of his work as a process of adaptation to the New World in a context of British imperialism. Exhibition: McCord Museum, Montréal, Canada (10-06-2022 to 16-4-2023)."-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780300266924 hardcover
0300266928 hardcover

Subject:

Henderson, Alex., 1831-1914 Exhibitions.
Henderson, Alex., 1831-1914 Expositions.
Landscape photography Canada Exhibitions.
Black-and-white photography Exhibitions.
Photographie de paysages Canada Expositions.
Photographie en noir et blanc Expositions.
Black-and-white photography
Landscape photography
Canada Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Canada Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Canada

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Samson, Hélène, 1952- editor.
Sauvage, Suzanne, editor, writer of foreword.
Henderson, Alex., 1831-1914. Photographs. Selections.
Triggs, Stanley. Alexander Henderson, landscape photographer.
McCord Museum, host institution.

Art and nature

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316118
Call No.: 316118
Copy: 1
Status: Available