This landmark exhibition was a retrospective of the oeuvre of Takao Tanabe, internationally renowned Vancouver Island artist, winner of the Governor General’s Award, and in 1993, recipient of the Order of British Columbia. The exhibition surveyed Tanabe’s work from the 1950s through to the early years of this century. In addition to Tanabe’s West Coast landscape paintings for which he is best known, the retrospective included paintings executed when the artist’s career took him away from British Columbia to other parts of the world.

Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria with assistance from the Canadian Department of Heritage, Museums Assistance Program