By Alan Hustak on July 2, 2009
Who would have imagined that so many fusty, gilt-edged landscapes that have been out of fashion for so long could be so resonant to our times? Expanding Horizons, a terrific summer exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts combines painting and photographs of the North American wilderness done, for the most part, in the last half of the 19th century. Taken together, these bucolic, dreamlike vistas have been restored to their rightful position as potent masterworks. Such an exhibition could hardly be more appropriate...
