Daphne Odjig
Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings / Chinese Drawings from Huxian, Jinshan and Qijiang
Woodland School
Child's Play
Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print
Daphne Odjig Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings / Chinese Drawings from Huxian, Jinshan and Qijiang Woodland School Child's Play Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print
The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig:
A Retrospective Exhibition
October 4, 2008 to January 4, 2009In her first retrospective in over two decades, The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig: A Retrospective Exhibition features over forty years of Daphne Odjig’s artistic career. Organized by the Art Gallery of Sudbury and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with guest curator, Bonnie Devine, the exhibition features over fifty of Odjig’s works including examples of Odjig’s history paintings, murals, legend paintings, erotica, abstractions, and landscapes. Together these pieces communicate the breadth of Odjig’s engagement with her personal, political and cultural history.
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Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings / Chinese Drawings from Huxian, Jinshan and Qijiang
October 11, 2008 to January 4, 2009A cross-cultural exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings / Chinese Drawings from Huxian, Jinshan and Qijiang, organized by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (MSAC) in Guelph and the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SFAI) in Chongqing, China, is an exceptional exploration of social culturology as expressed by Chinese and Canadian Inuit artists who are trying to retain traditional values in the midst of rapid societal change. The exhibition is Co-Curated by Judith Nasby, Director and Curator of the MSAC, and Feng Bin, Director of the Chongqing Art Museum.
After touring throughout China, the exhibition, a collection of thirty-two colourful Chinese drawings and eighteen Canadian Inuit drawings makes its first North American appearance at the McMichael on October 11, 2008.
Pictured Above:
Kananginak Pootoogook, (b. 1935)
White Man’s Music, 1990
coloured pencil on paper
Purchased with funds raised by the Art Centre Volunteers and with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, 1999
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Collection
Woodland School
May 3, 2008 - ongoingThe Woodland School exhibit examines the vibrant art of Woodland School painters Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, Jackson Beardy, Joseph Sanchez, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Benjamin Chee Chee, Blake Debassige, Saul Williams, Martin Panamick, and Goyce Kakegamic. The Woodland School style of painting was popularized through the work of Norval Morrisseau who caught the attention of the art-buying public with his first exhibition at the Pollock Gallery in Toronto in 1962. Morrisseau, defying cultural restrictions, based his work on traditional Ojibway visual imagery taken from petroglyphs and Midewewin birchbark scrolls, as well as from the myths and legends of his people. The Woodland School has become one of the most recognizable forms of First Nations art.
Pictured Above:
Norval Morrisseau , 1931-2007
Artist's Wife and Daughter, 1975
acrylic on hardboard
101.6 x 81.3 cm
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Purchase 1975
1981.87.1
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Child's Play
September 13, 2008 to April 13, 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
Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print
On now until November 30, 2008This exhibit, curated by McMichael’s Assistant Curator, Shawna White and entitled, Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print, examines Kenojuak’s involvement with the Cape Dorset printing program by comparing a selection of Kenojuak’s drawings to their subsequent prints.
Pictured Above:
Kenojuak Ashevak, b.1927
Drawing for print Blue Owl, 1966/1969
felt-tip pen on paper
51.3 x 66.2 cm
Collection of the West Baffin Eskimo
Co-operative Ltd., on loan to the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
CD.40.662
Reproduced with the permission of the
West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, Cape Dorset, Nunavut
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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.
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
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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.
