In honor of Alberta's Centennial, the magestic beauty of the grain elevator is celebrated by artist Karen Brownlee and author Ken Tingley in 128 vibrant paintings with descriptive text. Based on the artist's Rural Prairie Communities series, Alberta Remembers pays homage to this rapidly disappearing icon that played such a central role in the development of the Prairie West. Includes forewords by Jane Ross, Curator, Western Canadian History, Royal Alberta Museum and Daniel T. Gallacher, Curator Emeritus, Canadian Museum of civilization.
Reviews:
"A series of watercolours that are evocative, vivid and, at times, impressionistic."
-- Edmonton Journal
"A legitimate tool for not only students of art, but history as well."
--Lethbridge Insider
Karen Brownlee, a full-time practicing artist, focuses on landscapes, rural Alberta communities and grain elevators, but is also proficient in Japanese and Chinese brush painting, which she worked in exclusively for ten years. Karen Brownlee has been a juror for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Alberta recipient of the Davis and Henderson Intercheques Prairie Heritage Preservation Award.
Karen has been invited to share the honour of Feature Artist for the Western Showcase of the 2010 Calgary Stampede (July 9th - 18th).
Click on Karen's name above to see her profile or here to see all of her books with Fitzhenry and Whiteside. You can also visit Karen's web site at www.karenbrownlee.com.
Ken Tingley is a historic resource consultant, author and editor who has lived and worked in Edmonton for most of his life. His interest in grain elevators was stimulated when he wrote A History of the Ester Grain Elevator for Alberta Community Development.
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