Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast
Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images
"Karshed": Yousuf Karsh Selected Portraits
Child's Play
Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images "Karshed": Yousuf Karsh Selected Portraits Child's Play
Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast
June 27 to September 20, 2009Art of the Northwest Coast has re-emerged in the twenty-first century. Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast exhibition explores the art of nearly forty contemporary Northwest Coast artists.
It examines the individual artistic interpretation each artist brings to their artwork based on their cultural and artistic traditions. It also looks at how these artists grapple with the challenges of interpreting traditional Northwest Coast design into the modern age.
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Pictured Above:
Glenn Tallio, b.1939
Nuxalk Moon Mask, 2000
red cedar, acrylic, cedar bark
59.7 x 57.1 x 20.3 cm
Collection of Andria and Chuck Lawson
Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images
January 31 to July 5, 2009The Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images exhibition is a culmination of Karsh’s industrial and commercial work with the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Atlas Steel in Welland, Ontario, and Sharon Steel in Pennsylvania, and a variety of other commercial images. The exhibition explores the tone of Karsh’s industrial and commercial portraits in relation to the work and life philosophies prevalent in post-WWII North America. It also explores consumerism, marketing and the political atmosphere in Canada during the 1950s through his portraits. This project is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Windsor with the support of the Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd., Library and Archives Canada, Portrait Gallery of Canada, the Museum Assistanc e Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, CAW-TCA Canada and Estrellita Karsh the Yousuf Karsh: Industrial Images exhibition opens at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection on January 31, 2009.
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Pictured Above:
Yousuf Karsh, 1951
Gow Crapper, 1985
Ford of Canada series
Putting trim cord on rear window, Trim Line No. 1, Plant No. 4.
gelatin silver print (press print)
51.3 x 66.2 cm
Collection of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Oakville, Ontario
"Karshed": Yousuf Karsh Selected Portraits
January 31 to July 5, 2009December 23, 2008 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yousuf Karsh, one of the most important portrait photographers of the twentieth century. To commemorate this, two special portfolios of thirty rare, limited-edition portraits by Karsh will be on display at the gallery to complement the exhibition, Industrial Images. Karsh's celebrated photographs of Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, Jacques Cousteau, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and many more are being showcased in an exclusive new exhibit at the McMichael, direct from the Estate of Yousuf Karsh in California.
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Pictured Above:
Yousuf Karsh, 1951
Winston Churchill, 1941
photograph, gelatin silver print
60.96 x 50.8 cm
© The Estate of Yousuf Karsh
www.karsh.org
Child's Play
September 13, 2008 to September 7, 2009
Based exclusively on the McMichael’s permanent collection, Child’s Play is an educational exhibition exploring the theme of children in Canadian art.
Curated by the education and programs department at the McMichael, this exhibition is strongly narrative in character. The twenty-five presented works offer a glimpse into the intimate world of childhood and parenthood, where along the usual conveyance of love, joy and dreams, there is a sombre anxiety or a sense of struggle in coping with reality. Child’s Play examines the challenge of growing up in a world infused with the social and political conflicts of adults—a world in which even “child’s play” is not as simple and straightforward as it may appear.
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Pictured Above:
Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1904-1949
Young Girl at the Window , date unknown
oil on canvas
80.7 x 68.5 cm
McMichael Canadian Art Collection,
Purchase 1985
1985.40
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The Founders' Story |
Don’t miss this display of archival photographs and accompanying texts recounting the history of the McMichael from its early beginnings in the home of Robert and Signe McMichael through the donation to the Province in 1965, until the Founders’ retirement in 1981.
Learn more about our Founders’ passion for collecting and their mutual vision – a vision that enabled the creation of a unique public art gallery, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
To view The Founders’ Story visit the ramp leading from Gallery 1 to the restaurant.
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Pictured Above:
Robert McMichael signing the Gift Agreement, with Premier John Robarts
and Signe McMichael, November 18th, 1965
Photo by the Ontario Department of Tourism and Information
Revisions: Stories from the Collection
Ongoing:
Dialogue and Divergence: Art of the Northwest Coast explores relationships between the First Nations and non-First Nations cultures of British Columbia. The exhibition contrasts moments of dialogue with periods of divergence when the diverse communities of people who reside on the Coast appear to follow their own paths. Perhaps more than any other Canadian province, British Columbia’s history of conflict and cohabitation between First Nations and non-First Nations communities has been played out through the art and material culture of the region.
