Sunday 10 January 2016

Capturing History

   
Traffic Bridge and Rotary Park with the Blairmore Ring, ca.1980
As Saskatoon lost more of its history today, looking at the vast Stehwien collection, one is reminded that not only an artist's works are preserved, but also images of significant landmarks. The Saskatoon skyline has changed over the years, but mostly in expansion - new buildings, new bridges. Today the removal of more of the Victoria Bridge, or the Traffic Bridge, has added more historical value to these 'City of Bridges' sketches by Fritz.

Saskatoon Skyline 1969 (Have the limited edition prints just gone up in value? Still a few for sale)


Not just city skylines are changing, the prairie landscape has also seen the tearing down of many of the much loved old wooden grain elevators. Paintings and photos of these have become classics.