A Painter's Paradise: Michael Pisko and Ernest Riethman
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Galt Museum & Archives| Akaisamitohkanao'pa 502 1 St S (5 Ave S & Scenic Dr), Lethbridge, Alberta
Michael Pisko and Ernest Riethman, "A Painter's Paradise," 2020
Curator Tour: Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Guest curator Mary-Beth Laviolette will share stories about early Lethbridge artists Ernest Riethman and Michael Pisko and their art. Pisko believed he and other artists lived in a “painter’s paradise,” unique to Canada.
2–3 pm | registration not required | museum admission applies | free to annual pass holders
A Painter’s Paradise focuses on the life and art of local artists Michael Pisko and Ernest Riethman. Early members of the Lethbridge Sketch Club, their enthusiasm for their home left a legacy of wonderful paintings. Pisko and Riethman’s subject was generally landscape but depicted in two very different styles in which vivid impressions were created about Lethbridge, southwestern Alberta and the Rockies. Active from the 1930s on, the exhibition explores the relationship each artist had with the Lethbridge community as well their connections to major Canadian painters in cultivating a strong landscape tradition for the region.