| Canadian Rockies | SHOPPING, DINING, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE |
| Canadian Rockies | SHOPPING, DINING, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE |
The best 2007 Banff Mountain Festival photographs are displayed at The Banff Centre Sally Borden Building Foyer. Winning Images (to Sept 29) is an international and breathtaking collection celebrating the world's most beautiful mountains, animals and cultures. — Lisa Stephens
The Walter Phillips Gallery's Bureau de change showcases visual art generated at The Banff Centre by artists from across the globe. They came to Banff to exchange ideas, experiments and research, and to explore the use of new tools. This series of exhibitions, performances and events celebrates their contribution and history. — Lisa Stephens
Norman Luxton was an adventurer, entrepreneur, museum curator and news-paperman—his vision and creative energy helped put Banff on the map. Clad in buckskin and a Stetson, he personified the Wild West image popular with tourists. The Stuff of Legend: The Luxton Family in Banff and the Bow Valley, at the Whyte Museum chronicles the founding of Banff Indian Days, Banff Winter Carnival, and Luxton Museum of the Plains Indian through art, artifacts and photos. Join a 1 pm Luxton Home & Garden Tour that runs throughout the summer. — Lisa Stephens
You’re in good company. Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth, Sir John A Macdonald, Alfred Hitchcock and Bill Gates all sojourned in the Bow Valley. But the first recorded visit was in 1800 by legendary trader and mapmaker David Thompson who become the first European to cross the Canadian Rockies in 1807. Paintings by Joseph Cross of Cranbrook BC celebrate Thompson’s amazing travels and his contribution to the establishment of Canada as a country. They can be seen at The Canmore Museum exhibit David Thompson: 200 Years Later showing July 26 to Spring 2009. — Mary-Beth Laviolette
Over the decades, many Canadian artists made the pilgrimage to Banff to paint. The Whyte Museum retrospective of their work The Group of Seven to Takao Tanabe: Inspiring Landscapes includes paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics from A.C. Leighton, Walter J. Phillips, H.G. Glyde, Marion Nicoll and Robert Sinclair. Works from the 1930s to the 1980s are displayed chronologically. A.Y. Jackson is represented—he taught at The Banff School of Fine Arts (now The Banff Centre) in the 1940s. Takao Tanabe canvases are shown—during time in Banff 1973 to 1980 he produced his innovative 'The Land' series. — Lisa Stephens
Using a painstaking technique developed by 15th century Flemish artists, Roger D Arndt paints the Canadian Rockies. He uses smooth brush strokes to glaze layer upon layer of colour to create depth and atmosphere. His oil paintings are for sale at Canada House Gallery. — Lisa Stephens
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