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<i>Lasting Impressions</i> presents one of Canada's most extensive art collections, with works from William Blair Bruce's <i>Phantom of the Snow</i> (1888) to Alex Colville's <i>Horse and Train</i> (1954). Three major essays examine the issues of collection building, Canadian modernism and the concept of the icon in Canadian art; a fourth essay outlines the recent conservation of Colville's <i>Horse and Train</i>.