This richly illustrated volume explores mystical themes in European, Scandinavian, and North American landscape paintings from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. This book features works by Emily Carr, Marc Chagall, Arthur Dove, Paul Gauguin, Lawren Harris, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Georgia O’Keeffe, Vincent van Gogh and James McNeill Whistler, among others. Common to their work is the expression of the spiritual crisis that arose in society and the arts in reaction to the disillusionments of the modern age, and against the malaise that resulted in the Great War. Many artists turned their backs on institutional religion, searching for truth in universal spiritual philosophies. This book includes essays investigating mystical landscape genres and their migration from Scandinavia to North America, with a focus upon the Group of Seven and their Canadian and American counterparts. Accompanying an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d’Orsay, this book offers a penetrating look at the Symbolist influence on the landscape genre. "Nothing rivals a serene, calming landscape, especially when it's the focus of a gorgeous work of art. This volume effortlessly brings together a wide range of mystical landscapes created by well-known artists in Europe, Scandinavia, and North America from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, all of which-beyond lush trees and the swelling waterways-manage to shine through the spiritual crises and disillusionment of the modern age. There's much more depth to creating a landscape than you previously imagined."

-Interview Magazine
"This unusual approach to a subject that has as much of an impact upon the present as it had on the past is elegantly produced with excellent reproductions and contributions from a wide array of authorities in the field."

-Paula Frosch, Library Journal