Hometown Dreams: Alberta Hotel Cafe: Women Looking for a Friend
Linda CraddockOil on canvas
An increasing level of interest in both personal and social memory has resulted in an investigation of the past history and memories of that part of Alberta within which I was raised. If the railroad built a station in any small Alberta town, one would also find not far away, a hotel. The Alberta Hotel, café and bar served my small Central Alberta community for nearly a century. Friends would meet for coffee or a perogie dinner. The bar was filled every night. Itinerant workers rented hotel rooms by the week. The painting "Alberta Hotel Café: Woman Looking for a Friend" depicts the Café crowd on any given day. The hotel was destroyed by fire not long ago.
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oil -
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30" x 60"
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Linda Craddock
Born in Vegreville, Alberta, Linda Craddock graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1974 and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Calgary in 1988. Her work has been exhibited in public galleries internationally in the USA, Poland, Czech Republic. In Alberta, public exhibitions have included the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Art Gallery of Alberta, Glenbow Museum, Nickle Arts Museum and the Whyte Museum. Solo exhibition venues include the Visual Arts Alberta Gallery, Edmonton and the One on One Gallery, Medicine Hat as well as some artist-run galleries. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Art Gallery of Alberta and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa has acquired her work for permanent collections, as have numerous corporate and private collectors. Linda is represented by Bugera Matheson Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta. Her work can be viewed online at www.lindacraddock.ca.