A
Century of Drawing explores drawing as a visual medium from the
early 20th century influences of Japanese art through to explorations
by contemporary artists such as Arnold Saper and Ivan Eyre.
All 4 galleries exhibit drawings, etchings, wood engravings,
watercolour drawings, linocuts, and colour wood block prints
that contextualize line as the fundamental basis of visual art.
The exhibition also situates
Walter J. Phillips among the group of Winnipeg pioneers Lionel
Fitzgerald (fellow teacher with Phillips
in the first Winnipeg Art School) (2 drawings included in this
exhibition), Alex Musgrove (who taught Clarence Tillenius), H.V.
Fanshaw (who started the Winnipeg Sketch club), Caven Atkins,
Louise Alexander and Eric Bergman (whom Phillips taught Wood
Engraving) for developing a Western sensibility and opening the “gateway
to Western Art” in Canada.
The exhibition opens April
3rd, (2nd level galleries opened April 1st) and runs through
to September, 2008. There are over
250 pieces on exhibition including rare pieces by contemporaries
of
Walter J. Phillips from England: Allen Seaby, William Giles,
John Edgar Platt and Yoshijiro Urushibara, the most influential
teacher of Japanese art in the early 20th century and a specialist
in Colour Wood Block printing, whom Phillips attended lectures
in 1924 in England.
The 2nd level rotation gallery
features our guest Manitoba artist Arnold Saper, contemporary
of Ivan Eyre and former Drawing and
Printmaking Professor at the University of Manitoba (recently
retired). Arnold Saper’s works are for sale and for inquiries
contact the Curator, Peter Heymans
953-4516. |
