This unique book is the catalogue of a travelling exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It examines American and Canadian landscape painting and photography in an era of great artistic and historical transformation coinciding with the American Civil war, the Canadian Confederation, and the end of World War I. 250 of the most famous examples of landscape painting and photography are exhibited: Chase, Eakins, Homer, O'Keefe, Sargent, Coburn, O'Sullivan, Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand for the American part, and Brymner, Carr, Cullen, Fraser, Gagnon, Harris, Baltzly, Henderson and Notman have been selected to represent Canada.

This unique book is the catalogue of a travelling exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It examines American and Canadian landscape painting and photography in an era of great artistic and historical transformation coinciding with the American Civil war, the Canadian Confederation, and the end of World War I. 250 of the most famous examples of landscape painting and photography are exhibited: Chase, Eakins, Homer, O'Keefe, Sargent, Coburn, O'Sullivan, Stieglitz, Steichen and Strand for the American part, and Brymner, Carr, Cullen, Fraser, Gagnon, Harris, Baltzly, Henderson and Notman have been selected to represent Canada.