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Annual Report - Vancouver Art Gallery
2014|15 COLLECTION IN REVIEW From July 2014 to June 2015, the Vancouver Art Gallery acquired 234 artworks through purchase and donation, bringing the total number of works in the collection to 11,617. The Gallery has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to British Columbia artists and in 2014/15 purchased many new works, including those by promising local artists Kim Kennedy Austin, Julia Feyrer, Babak Golkar, Una Knox and Dan Starling, all acquired with the assistance of the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund. The additional purchase of a monumental new oil on canvas painting by emerging local artist Andrew Dadson was made possible by a generous donation from Phil Lind, while donations from Rick Erickson and Tim Kerr helped facilitate the purchase of works by the renowned Haida artist Robert Davidson. The proceeds of the Jean MacMillan Southam Major Art Purchase Fund contributed towards the purchase of Klatsassin (2006) by Stan Douglas, a major video work that relates directly to the history of British Columbia. Additional purchases of work by Myfanwy MacLeod, Evelyn Roth and Ron Terada were made with the Art Acquisition Fund, while the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts matching funds grant program contributed to purchase of large-scale paintings by Vancouver artists Landon Mackenzie and Neil Wedman. Donations of artwork are essential to the growth of the permanent collection and the Gallery is grateful to all of the donors who contributed to the Gallery’s holdings in the last year. The Gallery was especially thrilled to receive a donation of oil sketches by Group of Seven painter J.E.H. MacDonald from Ephry and Melvin Merkur in December of 2014. This donation substantially bolstered the Gallery’s holdings of historical Canadian art, as did the donation of a major BC landscape painting by E.J. Hughes from H. Richard Whittall and his family, and Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa’s finalization of their Promised Gift of a Sisiutl headdress by a Nuu-chah-nulth artist. Representation of Canada’s First Nations artists was also strengthened by a donation of drawings by the Inuit artists Napachie and Annie Pootoogook from long-time supporters of the Gallery Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft. The Gallery continued to develop its exceptional collection of photography in the 2014/15 fiscal year through many donations of important historical and contemporary photographs. The Rossy Family Foundation very generously supported the purchase of 33 photographs by Harry Morey Callahan, helping to make the Gallery’s collection the largest of Callahan’s work in Canada and the second largest in the world. Donations of historical photographs by John Vanderpant, Robert Frank, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alfred Stieglitz and Giorgio Sommer further OPPOSITE: Babak Golkar, From Africa to the Americas (including To Cubism), 2014, chromogenic print, wood, stain, Plexiglas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with the proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund 39 added to the Gallery’s representation of the history of photography generally, and the gift of an important photograph and original negative of Emily Carr in her Studio (1939) by Harold Mortimer-Lamb marked an important bridge between the two great strengths of the Gallery’s collection: photography and the work of Emily Carr. The Gallery is grateful to Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Bill Jeffries and The Vanderpant Collection for these donations. Significant donations of contemporary photographs were also made by Thomas H. Bjarnason, Robert Keziere and Coleen and Howard Nemtin. Most contemporary photography entered the collection this year through donations from the artists themselves: Robert Burley donated fifteen photographs from his The Disappearance of Darkness series; Karin Bubaš donated eight photographs from her Ivy House series; and individual photographic works were donated by Christos Dikeakos, James Nizam and Hong Chun Park. We are particularly grateful to artists who donate their own work to the permanent collection. In addition to the photographers mentioned above, in the last year the Gallery’s collection of contemporary art also greatly benefited from donations made by the following artists: Angela Grossmann, Shelagh Keeley, Keith Langergraber, Landon Mackenzie, Alex Morrison, Evelyn Roth, Kara Uzelman and Lawrence Weiner, who continues to contribute to his poster archive with annual donations to the Gallery. Ten drawings by the Royal Art Lodge, a group of fabric sculptures by former Royal Art Lodge members Drue Langlois and Michael Dumontier, a stoneware piece by Mona Hatoum as well as a significant print by Ed Rucha were all generously donated by Monty James Cooper. Donald Ellis gifted the complex hide and thread sculpture Constrictor (2010) by Brian Jungen, and Phil Lind donated Ron Terada’s iconic sign Entering City of Vancouver (2002). Other important donors included David Allison and Chris Nicolson, Erica Claus, Kate Clifford, Neil Campbell, Sean B. Murphy, the family of Stanley E. Read, Evann Siebans and Keith Doyle, The Warhol Foundation and a Private Collection in Vancouver. We are enormously grateful to all of our donors, without whose generosity the growth of Gallery’s permanent collection would not be possible—thank you! 40 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY Chicago [store front], c.1954 Purchased with funds Purchased with funds Purchased with funds chromogenic print donated by The Rossy Family donated by The Rossy Family donated by Phil Lind Purchased with funds Foundation Foundation Morocco [buildings], 1980 Portugal [view down narrow dye transfer print street], 1982 Raven Fin, 2014 Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago Purchased with funds dye transfer print red cedar, acrylic paint [Eleanor on bed, Barbara in donated by The Rossy Family Purchased with funds Purchased with funds Foundation donated by The Rossy Family from the Jean MacMillan Foundation Southam Major Art Purchase donated by The Rossy Family Foundation window], 1954 silver gelatin print Purchased with funds Morocco [road in foreground, donated by The Rossy Family white wall in distance], 1980 Foundation dye transfer print Purchased with funds Port Huron [Eleanor nude donated by The Rossy Family from below], 1960 Foundation silver gelatin print Purchased with funds Morocco [wall with palm donated by The Rossy Family trees], 1980 Foundation dye transfer print Purchased with funds Maine [grasses in low light], donated by The Rossy Family DAVIDSON, ROBERT Fund, the Vancouver Art Atlanta [man on sidewalk], Gallery Acquisitions Fund 1984 and donations from Rick dye transfer print Erickson and Tim Kerr Purchased with funds donated by The Rossy Family Octopus (Nuu), 2014 Foundation acrylic on canvas Vancouver Art Gallery From the Peachtree Series Acquisitions Fund [triptych, peeling posters], 1987–1990 DIKEAKOS, CHRISTOS chromogenic print Purchased with funds Concrete Debris, 2007–9 donated by The Rossy Family chromogenic print Purchased with funds Morocco [wall with palm Foundation Gift of the Artist donated by The Rossy Family trees, white car in centre], COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON DOUGLAS, STAN Foundation 1980 dye transfer print The Temple, c.1907 Klatsassin, 2006 Purchased with funds photogravure single-channel video donated by The Rossy Family Gift of Bill Jeffries Purchased with funds Foundation CORSAUT, SHARE Mexico [buildings with Monoprint #3—series 1, 1978 Fund and the Vancouver Art doorway in centre], 1982 silver gelatin print Gallery Acquisitions Fund dye transfer print Gift of Robert Keziere 1962 silver gelatin print Maine [tree leaves], c.1962 silver gelatin print Purchased with funds donated by The Rossy Family Foundation Rhode Island [tree branches], 1962 silver gelatin print Purchased with funds donated by The Rossy Family Foundation from the Jean MacMillan Southam Major Art Purchase Purchased with funds donated by The Rossy Family Foundation FALK, GATHIE Changing Squares— paper/grid/cardhouse Cabbage (from Hanging photogram No.2, 1979 Cabbages Environment), c.1984 ceramic, paint Foundation Portugal [building facades], silver gelatin print Untitled [unidentified street, 1982 Gift of Robert Keziere possibly in Italy], c.1968 dye transfer print silver gelatin print Purchased with funds Purchased with funds donated by The Rossy Family donated by The Rossy Family Foundation No.14, 1981 instant dye process print Gift of Robert Keziere Gift of Erica Claus FEYRER, JULIA The Poodle Dog Ornamental Filter Folds No.4, 1982 Portugal [building facades, Bar, 2009 instant dye process print shadow in foreground], 1982 single-channel video Untitled [unidentified street, Gift of Robert Keziere dye transfer print Purchased with proceeds possibly in Italy], c.1968 Purchased with funds Untitled, 1982 from the Audain Emerging silver gelatin print donated by The Rossy Family Artists Acquisition Fund Purchased with funds instant dye process print donated by The Rossy Family Foundation Foundation Foundation Portugal [street view with two Gift of Robert Keziere DADSON, ANDREW FOUQUET, MONIQUE #41, 1979 New York [skyscrapers], 1974 trees in foreground], 1982 Partially Painted, 2015 graphite on paper silver gelatin print dye transfer print oil on canvas Gift of Robert Keziere OPPOSITE: Andrew Dadson, Partially Painted, 2015, oil on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with funds donated by Phil Lind 44 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY FRANK, ROBERT City Fathers (Hoboken, New Jersey), 1955–6 silver gelatin print Gift of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft The Rise and Fall of the Sun (including The Rise of the Sun and The Fall of the Sun), 2014 chromogenic print, textile, rubber Purchased with proceeds from the Audain Emerging HOGARTH, WILLIAM John Wilkes, Esq., 1763 etching on paper HUGHES, E.J. When What Becomes Who, Breaker Beach, Vancouver Island, 1963 Brancusi’s Alien Fascination Tearless (including Never Gift of H. Richard Whittall (including Constantin), Forgetting Richter), 2014 JUNGEN, BRIAN 2014 chromogenic print, wax, chromogenic print, steel, cotton, wood Constrictor, 2010 wood, stain Purchased with proceeds hide, thread Purchased with proceeds from the Audain Emerging Gift of Donald Ellis Artists Acquisition Fund KEELEY, SHELAGH Artists Acquisition Fund GROSSMANN, ANGELA House of Memory, House of From Africa to the Americas Broken Mirror, 2011 Regret, 1985 (including To Cubism), acrylic, collage on textile chromogenic print, wood, Gift of the Artist Gift of the Artist KNOX, UNA GOLKAR, BABAK 2014 on plastic film Bequest of Stanley E. Read Artists Acquisition Fund from the Audain Emerging 26 unique sheets, acrylic oil on canvas 2009 single-channel video Purchased with proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund KYDD, OWEN Two Curves, Pico Boulevard, 2012 single-channel video Purchased with proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund graphite, oil stick, pigment, LANGERGRABER, wax on paper KEITH Gift of Claudia Beck and Britannia Beach (from the HATOUM, MONA Andrew Gruft Purchased with proceeds T42, 1993–8 after Lucretius / De Rerum Architecture), 2013 from the Audain Emerging stoneware Natura / the nature of things, graphite on paper Artists Acquisition Fund Gift of Monty James Cooper 2012 Gift of the Artist stain, Plexiglas series Morphological ABOVE: Stan Douglas, Klatsassin, 2006 (still), single-channel video, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with funds from the Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisitions Fund and the Jean MacMillan Southam Major Art Purchase Fund OPPOSITE: Robert Frank, City Fathers—Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955–56, silver gelatin print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, © Robert Frank, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York 46 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY MENS REA, 2013 offset lithograph on paper Gift of Moved Pictures Archive and Giorgio Persano Gallery MISS READ THE BERLIN ART FAIR, 2013 offset lithograph on paper Gift of Moved Pictures Archive and Miss Read (Michalis Pichler and Vanessa Adler) SLIGHTLY SHATTERED SHARDS, 2013 offset lithograph on paper Gift of Moved Pictures Archive and Editions Block, London UNDERGROUND, 2013 offset lithograph on paper Gift of Moved Pictures Archive and Rivington Press, London CRISSCROSSED, 2014 offset lithograph on paper Gift of Moved Pictures Archive and Christina Guerra Contemporary Art WEEK END #3, 2014 offset lithograph on paper Gift of Moved Pictures Archive and Week End Festival WEEK END #3, 2014 offset lithograph on paper Gift of Moved Pictures Archive and Week End Festival DEACCESSIONS ONLEY, TONI Presence in the Garden, 1968 Silent Sentinels, 1968 screenprint on paper screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery Gallery Heel Stone, 1968 screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery Silent Avenue, 1968 Silent Stage, 1968 screenprint on paper screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery Gallery Lonely Place, 1968 screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery Silent Grove, 1968 Still Land, 1968 screenprint on paper screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery Gallery Fort Rodd Hill, 1968 screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery Still Life, 1968 screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery Still Water, 1968 screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery White Cloud, 1968 screenprint on paper Gifted to the Kamloops Art Gallery ABOVE: John Vanderpant, Straw Hat [N.L. Cheney], c.1932, silver gelatin print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of The Vanderpant Collection OPPOSITE: Ron Terada, Jack, 2013, acrylic on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisitions Fund 2014 |15 ACQUISITIONS 55
