signed & titled
Helen Collinson, Glyde’s daughter, writes in “A Life Journey-The Art and Teaching of H.G. Glyde” (Glenbow Museum, Calgary; 1987):
He was fascinated by the architecture of the soaring prairie grain elevators and, in calling them the “Cathedrals of the Prairie,” likened them to the sprires of churches in England. I remember his describing how the elevator signaled, miles in advance, the presence of a town here in Alberta in much the same way as the cathedral spire did in England.
Perhaps the couples depicted in this painting are on their way to a Sunday morning service. There is a small steeple in the skyline of the town, although it features far less prominently than the red roofed elevators. Glyde, perhaps more than most western Canadian painters, incorporated the human figure into his regional landscapes.
