Representing Rural Life

March 1 - March 31

Portrayal of the working class at the end of the nineteenth-century continued to be designated as avant-garde as artists depicted daily labour in a manner which was captivating rather than subservient. Artists sought to portray the beauty of daily tasks of the lower class by depicting them as the independent subject and using soft radiating light, previously reserved for nobility and religious figures. This created controversy among the once powerful bourgeois and Academy as artists strayed from the confines of traditional subjects. This exhibition includes paintings by Bernard J. de Hoog, Michael Therkildsen, Godfred Christensen, Hermann Kern, John A. Puller, Frederik Rohde, Viggo Pedersen, Archibald Campbell and Robert Schleich. Showing alongside this exhibition is a rotating selection of museum quality paintings, objets d’art, and antiques from Europe and North America.

2117 Granville Street, phone 604-736-8825 www.langmann.com. Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am to 5pm or by appointment. The first building on the south end of the Granville Street Bridge at the beginning of South Granville’s Gallery Row. (Wheelchair accessible)