The late-19th century was a time of new technology, industry, and modernity. People were enthralled with their changing world and artists were not an exception. Fascinated by progress in every form, artists depicted factories, trains, and construction sites. Artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, and Camille Pissarro began to paint the world around them, from laundresses in the basements of Paris to rural laborers in fields. This book focuses on how Impressionist artists engaged and treated the topic of industry in their art.

This publication recognizes and celebrates the remarkable collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario held in trust for the benefit of our visitors, and all Canadians. Following a rough chronology and featuring colour images of more than 300 works of the 82,000 in the AGO permanent collection, the book showcases the depth and diversity of the gallery's holdings. 

Director's Foreward by Matthew Teitelbaum, Michael and Sonja Koerner Director and CEO
Editor of Compilation: Jim Shedden

paperback
356 pages
colour photos
23.5cm l x 16.5cm h x 2.5cm d

Every. Now. Then: Rethinking Nationhood embraces the fundamental belief that Canada is a dynamic work-in-progress that has, is, and will continue to be defined by movements and migrations across shifting terrain and within a variable, often unstable, environment. As cultural space, political state, ecosystem, and geography, the space of Canada (even over its short history) has been a place of shifting borders and boundaries; a place constantly being reimagined and redefined.