Sublime Vernacular – Nancy Tousley Betaalbaar

“A Sublime Vernacular” examines the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug (1918 – 1974), an itinerant artist who sold thousands of variations of essentially the same idyllic mountain scene in national parks, resorts, department stores, restaurants and bars across western Canada from the late 1930s through the 1960s. A self-described speed painter, he turned out paintings in a matter of minutes, often working on several at the same time, that mesmerized customers as they watched them come to life. Flexhaug…