Northern Lights Museum of Art

Northern Lights is a notable art exhibition showcased at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The exhibition features sixty-two landscape paintings by renowned artists from Scandinavia and Canada, including masterpieces by Edvard Munch and Hilma af Klint. It explores the profound connection between the boreal forest and modernist painting, highlighting the unique natural phenomena and endless horizons of the northern region. Northern Lights traces the development of Nordic landscape painting in modern art and examines the ties between Scandinavian and Canadian artistic traditions. This exhibition presents a new geography of art, revealing understudied connections in landscape painting influenced by the challenging northern climate.