Ceramics, textile screens, oil paintings, and other works by 15 of Japan’s leading contemporary artists, including Saito, Hamada, Rosanjin, and anti-nuclear ceramicist Kazuaki Kita, are featured.
A selection of historical oil paintings from the collection will be on view including Antonio Joli’s “Westminster Bridge on Lord Mayor’s Day,” Michele Marieschi’s “Venice and the Doge’s Barge,” and Jacopo Amigoni’s “Aeneas and Queen Dido.”
One of the most original and inventive 20th century landscape artists, United States artist Milton Avery (1885-1965) uses simplified shapes and clear heightened colours to evoke the characteristic forms and brilliant light of North America. Avery was much ahead of his time, and always out of the mainstream. He was an influence on may later…
Over 300 pieces of historical folk art are on display in what has been billed as the most comprehensive survey of traditional Nova Scotian folk art ever assembled. There are utilitarian objects such as quilts and coverlets, penny mats and painted sailcloth mats, last-look and courting mirrors, butterprints, boxes of every shape and variety -…
Wood blocks, etchings, silkscreen and lithographs trace the development of Japanese printmaking from the 17th century to the present form. It shows the influence Japanese printmaking had on such European artists as Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec and the influence of western expressionists, cubists, futurists, etc., on modern Japanese printmaking.
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