A collaboration on a mutual exhibition between the national galleries in Scandinavia: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (21 April-27 August 2006), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (30 September 2006-14 January 2007), The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (15 February-20 May 2007), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (6 October 2007-20 January 2007), The Minneapolis Institute of Arts U.S.A., (23 June-2 September 2007).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-310) and index of artists.
Preface -- A mirror of nature : Nordic landscape painting 1840-1910 / Torsten Gunnarsson -- Nordic sublime / Magne Malmanger -- Close to nature / In the open air : Nordic paths to plein air painting / Annika Waenerberg -- Evocative landscape : pictures to dream by / Peter Nørgaard Larsen -- Landscapes of the mind / Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse -- From afar / Philip Conisbee -- Territorializing nature : landscape painting and the rise of Nordic nationalism / Janne Gallen-Kallela-Sirén -- The peasant and the view : when nature became landscape--and painting / Klaus P. Mortensen -- Catalogue -- Artists' biographies -- Bibliography -- Index of artists -- Photographic credits