| Abstract: | Reply to "Images of the Prairie: Landscape Painting and Perception in the Western Interior of Canada," an article by Ronald Rees in The Canadian Geographer , xx (1976), 259–78.
R onald R ees has suggested that insight into the history of pioneer settlements might be gained by studying the paintings of some artists who depicted the prairie. Pointing out that his essay is actually "a study of the perception of artists only," he surveys briefly a number of prairie landscape painters active during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the intention of demonstrating possible changes in the "perceptual environment" on the basis of depictions of the prairie made during the last two centuries. |
