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Metropolitan seminars in art ; portfolio 4 : abstraction

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
c1958
Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Publisher
New York : The Museum
Call Number
N6450 N4
Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Responsibility
by John Canaday
Publisher
New York : The Museum
Published Date
c1958
Physical Description
[31]p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art - Abstract
Accession Number
3069
Call Number
N6450 N4
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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Drawing - a Canadian survey, 1977-1982

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
c1983
Publisher
Montreal : Centre Saidye Bronfman
Call Number
NC141 D7
Responsibility
David Bolduc [and others]
Publisher
Montreal : Centre Saidye Bronfman
Published Date
c1983
Physical Description
[135]p. : ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Drawing - Canada
Drawing, Abstract
Notes
Catalogue of an exhibition
Text in English and French
Bibliography p.128-129
Call Number
NC141 D7
Location
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Collection
Art Library
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Artist
Gordon Adaskin, R. C. A. (1931 – 2001, Canadian)
Date
1968
Catalogue Number
AkG.13.01
Description
Down the left side are dark blue and pale yellow narrow vertical stripes. Another quarter of the picture in from left side is a patch of pale yellow, which almost goes to the bottom. Beside it in the center is a very narrow vertical black line - wider at the top. The rest is white shapes on top of …
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Title
Bright Outside
Date
1968
Dimensions
49.7 x 72.0 cm
Description
Down the left side are dark blue and pale yellow narrow vertical stripes. Another quarter of the picture in from left side is a patch of pale yellow, which almost goes to the bottom. Beside it in the center is a very narrow vertical black line - wider at the top. The rest is white shapes on top of white ground.
Credit
Purchased from Griffith Galleries, Vancouver, 1969
Catalogue Number
AkG.13.01
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Rocky Mountain Suite #2

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Artist
Jerry F. Grey
Date
c. 1974
Medium
watercolour; liquitex on paper
Catalogue Number
GrJ.05.01
Description
General colour: yellow. A surface gridded in varying densities of the same colour. In every square of sixteen small squares there is a white triangle in the lower left corner.
Artist
Jerry F. Grey
Title
Rocky Mountain Suite #2
Date
c. 1974
Medium
watercolour; liquitex on paper
Dimensions
41.3 x 58.4 cm
Description
General colour: yellow. A surface gridded in varying densities of the same colour. In every square of sixteen small squares there is a white triangle in the lower left corner.
Subject
abstract
non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
GrJ.05.01
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Artist
Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)
Date
1975
Medium
gouache on paper
Catalogue Number
JvA.07.01
Description
General colour: green. Long green configurations move across from left to right several tendrils break off from the main line upwards and downwards. The central shape is a slanted 'N' shape.
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Artist
Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)
Title
To Smell Balsam
Date
1975
Medium
gouache on paper
Dimensions
59.0 x 77.5 cm
Description
General colour: green. Long green configurations move across from left to right several tendrils break off from the main line upwards and downwards. The central shape is a slanted 'N' shape.
Subject
mythological
abstract, non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
JvA.07.01
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Artist
Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)
Date
1964
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
JvA.05.01
Description
General colour: red, blue on white. A horizontal shape cuts the picture in half. Another shape goes up from that to the upper edge left of center. A single orange line comes down to the left lower edge. Four large orange dots sit at the outsides of the main shape.
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Artist
Alex Simeon Janvier (1935 – , Canadian)
Title
Follow-up
Date
1964
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
37.0 x 25.5 cm
Description
General colour: red, blue on white. A horizontal shape cuts the picture in half. Another shape goes up from that to the upper edge left of center. A single orange line comes down to the left lower edge. Four large orange dots sit at the outsides of the main shape.
Subject
mythological
abstract, non-representational
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1977
Catalogue Number
JvA.05.01
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Artist
Marion Florence Nicoll (1909 – 1985, Canadian)
Date
1947
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
NiM.09.01
Description
Hard cover black spiral sketchbook. Both sides of pages are filled with abstract non-representational doodles, some dated, eg. Nov 25 5:45 PM
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Artist
Marion Florence Nicoll (1909 – 1985, Canadian)
Title
Sketchbook
Date
1947
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
22.5 x 30.0 cm
Description
Hard cover black spiral sketchbook. Both sides of pages are filled with abstract non-representational doodles, some dated, eg. Nov 25 5:45 PM
Subject
abstract
non-representational
Credit
Gift of Marion Florence Nicoll, 1978
Catalogue Number
NiM.09.01
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Artist
Leslie Reid
Date
1975
Medium
serigraph on paper
Catalogue Number
ReL.04.01
Description
Colour: pale pink. One third the way up across the picture a horizon line of trees seen faintly against a flat pink background.
Artist
Leslie Reid
Title
Galetta
Date
1975
Medium
serigraph on paper
Dimensions
75.6 x 56.5 cm
Description
Colour: pale pink. One third the way up across the picture a horizon line of trees seen faintly against a flat pink background.
Subject
abstract
mythological
Credit
Gift of Jon Whyte, Banff, 1978
Catalogue Number
ReL.04.01
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Artist
Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)
Date
1967
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Catalogue Number
WiS.12.01
Description
General colour: Primaries and secondaries. The four sides are all similtaneously used as a base for four scenes. Moving counter clockwise: 1. Two figures by a lake with a canoe, mountains in the background. 2. A house with a blue car parked outside and two teepees next door. 3. A train, a flying sa…
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Artist
Sitting Wind (1925 – 2002, Canadian)
Title
Quadra Vision
Date
1967
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
61 x 76.2 cm
Description
General colour: Primaries and secondaries. The four sides are all similtaneously used as a base for four scenes. Moving counter clockwise: 1. Two figures by a lake with a canoe, mountains in the background. 2. A house with a blue car parked outside and two teepees next door. 3. A train, a flying saucer and a deep sea diver. 4. A river, on one bank, a farm on the other, a city. Superimposed on all this are geometric shapes that were used in 1967 as a Canadian centenial logs.
Subject
abstract, non-representational
Credit
Purchased from Sitting Wind, 1967
Catalogue Number
WiS.12.01
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Artist
Betty Trimmer
Date
1968
Medium
acrylic on canvas on masonite
Catalogue Number
TrB.12.01
Description
Black markings on an orange, green and yellow ground. Painting floating in black frame.
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Artist
Betty Trimmer
Title
Wapiti Print
Date
1968
Medium
acrylic on canvas on masonite
Dimensions
73.6 x 109.2 cm
Description
Black markings on an orange, green and yellow ground. Painting floating in black frame.
Subject
abstract
animal, elk
Credit
Gift of Colin (Mrs.) Trimmer, Banff, 1969
Catalogue Number
TrB.12.01
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