Sentences with phrase «west as pioneers»

This was around the time families were moving west as pioneers.

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West Liberty Foods has pioneered innovations in food safety as part of our commitment to our partners.

Established by Stewart Monteith in 1868 for the pioneering gold mining communities on the country's South Island West Coast, this heritage brand has long been loved by a series of successive generations and is now recognised as a leader in the New Zealand craft beer market.

The locally quarried, 150 - ton granite memorial is a tribute to brave explorers and pioneers who traveled through Temecula in the years as the American West was settled.

Just beyond Old Town Temecula's northern Gateway Arch, is Sam Hicks Park, with the «They Passed This Way» monument, a testament to the brave explorers and pioneers who traveled through Temecula in the years as the West was being settled.

Vimala McClure, founder of the International Association of Infant Massage, is known as one of the pioneers who brought infant massage to the West.

Rather, he suggests, small - scale pioneers of both farmers and hunter - gatherers may have been «operating beyond the frontier of farming» as it spread west in a wave of advance.

Pioneer Quest: A Year In The Real West, follows two couples as they assume the lives of early settlers to the West and spend one year living as 1870s pioneers on the Canadian prairie.

The liberal lion of the Supreme Court (and second woman ever to be confirmed to the position) is presented in Betsy West and Julie Cohen's film as equal parts civil - rights pioneer and pop culture icon, with loving scenes of her lifting weights, cracking wise, and being turned into a meme spliced alongside original interviews and archival footage.

West London head Hywel Jones said: «Our pioneer year group have worked very hard and their results are a testament to those efforts, as well as our exceptional teaching staff.»

Critics who have argued that the government's flagship free school policy has suffered from weak oversight have been given further ammunition as an investigation into a pioneering free school in Bradford, West Yorkshire, found an alleged trail of misused funds, unexplained invoices and improper payments.

As David McCullough writes, «Not all pioneers went west.»

In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used the trail to emigrate West - scholars still regard this as the largest land migration in history - it united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads.

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Located in southwestern Colorado, and just 36 miles west of the Mesa Verde National Park, the old downtown area of Durango is fascinating; many of the original buildings constructed by Durango's pioneers are still standing today such as the Strater Hotel, and some of the Victorian bars where you might easily expect to see Butch Cassidy or Elzy Lay hanging out, with narrowed eyes and six shooters at their sides!

The PortAventura architecture team has constructed Mansión de Lucy to have the same character as the first «Far West» mansions that were built with the fortunes of successful railroad, oil and gold mining pioneers.

As pioneering West Coast art collectors, Harry W. Anderson, who still goes by his beefy nickname, and his wife, Mary Margaret, known as Moo, have shown the same sort of American pluck and ingenuity that made Saga so successfuAs pioneering West Coast art collectors, Harry W. Anderson, who still goes by his beefy nickname, and his wife, Mary Margaret, known as Moo, have shown the same sort of American pluck and ingenuity that made Saga so successfuas Moo, have shown the same sort of American pluck and ingenuity that made Saga so successful.

It also means that the few quotes that have been gleaned over a career spanning five decades — first as a young artist making his way in LA, where he was influenced by West Coast conceptualists Bruce Nauman and Chris Burden, then in New York, where he became involved in the avant - garde black art scene centered around the pioneering gallery Just Above Midtown — tend to get quite a bit of recycling.

The lecture will be presented as part of «Resonance: Looking for Mr. McLuhan,» an exhibition of works from the 1960s to the present that commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the pioneering media critic Marshall McLuhan, now through December 21, 2011, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery at 144 West 14th Street, second floor.

He was a Los Angeles based artist known strictly in the West Coast art circles as one of, or perhaps the pioneer (unbeknownst to most) of what some critics called «Hard Edge Abstraction.»

The brainchild of L.A. artist Doug Aitken, the project retrofitted a train of nine vintage cars that cruised east to west as if pioneering the western expansion.

One of the pioneers of the West Coast «Light and Space» movement, Irwin started out as an abstract painter but is now known for his architectural interventions made with translucent scrims, light tubes, and natural light (one of which, Excursus: Homage to the Square ³, is currently on view at Dia: Beacon).

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

As a pioneer of West Coast minimalism and Op Art, DeLap's oeuvre is a testament to his willingness to continuously challenge the viewer's perception of reality.

is an exhibition exploring the pioneering American West as both a physical terrain and an idea deeply rooted in the American psyche.

At the latter institute Mason worked alongside other vanguard Los Angeles - based artists of the postwar period, including West Coast Pop artists Richard Pettibone and Billy Al Bengston, as well as the pioneering ceramic artists Paul Soldner and Peter Voulkos.

Michael Asher, well known as a West Coast pioneer of conceptual art, was in the Whitney's seminal Anti-Illusion show in 1969.

Wegman lived and worked in Los Angeles in the early 70s, and was a key figure in what came to be known as West Coast Conceptual art and a pioneer in the developing medium of video art.

Sarah Shepard: San Francisco has a long history with the photographic medium with pioneers such as Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams calling the West Coast home, and those before them such as Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge using the dramatic Western landscape for their inspiration.

Presented are artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Otto Muehl, and Franz West who came to prominence in the 1960s / 1970s and pioneered practices that explored the ways in which life could be unified with our experience of art.

A photographer schooled on both sides of the Atlantic, Maier - Aichen's work reflects on the dual influences of the history of photography and the history of painting, whether drawing on such dichotomies as German Romantic painting and the pioneers of German «objective» photography, or applying his post-factum experience of American frontier art — from the Hudson River School and Abstract Expressionism to Land Art and West Coast conceptualism — to his own topographical depictions of landscape subjects.

The company says Novak helped pioneer new real estate options in areas such as Leslieville and, more recently, Dupont Street / Wallace Avenue, Lansdowne Avenue / Bloor Street West and Dundas Street West.