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August 2004  

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

Window on the West
Gerald R. Ford Museum
until September 26, 2004

Title: Sioux Camp in the Rocky Mountains, 1880
Artist: Ransom G. Holdredge (1836-1899)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 42 x 69 in.
Image Courtesy: Gerald R. Ford Museum

The Arthur J. Phelan collection of the American West art. Explorers, Natives, Cowboys and Settlers are all captured in this 60 work exhibit. The noted American West Artist Frederic Remington is a natural inclusion. Along with Albert Bierdstadt, leader of the Rocky Mountain School, known for its immense mountain scenery with the imposing easels.

Ransom G. Holdredge was known to include Native Americans in his paintings, such as Sioux Camp in the Rocky Mountains.

Other artists featured include Carl Wimar, Karl Bodmer and Lone Wolf.

Gerald R. Ford Museum at www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov

Manchester, England

Far Away, So Close
Chinese Arts Centre
July 30 - September 12, 2004

Guo Wei continues with his popular series based on the 'restlessness' of teenagers. His paintings focus on the intricate body language suggesting their interrelationships, indifference, mocking laughter and of course the striving for attention.

He Douling like Guo Wei, a native of Chengu, Sichuan Province, China, uses his art to express his views on the current family structures of his homeland. One of the most striking is of a single baby juxtapositioned before images of Chinese dynasty, a reflection of the country's 'one family one child' official policy.

Chinese Arts Centre at www.chinese-arts-centre.org

Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada

Tom Thomson Experience
Northern Edge Algonquin
August 13-15th, September 17-19th, 2004

Retrace the steps of Tom Thomson in his beloved Algonquin Park. Many of the works that Thomson is most famous for are his renditions of the natural beauty of the rugged Canadian landscape.

Spend 2 to 3 days traveling by canoe, art instruction and storytelling learning about the life and death of one of Canada's most famous artists, Tom Thomson.

Northern Edge Algonquin at www.algonquincanada.com