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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 sub-
stantially 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 head-
dress 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, Collectionof the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with the proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund
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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 dona-
tions 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!
Chicago [store front], c.1954
chromogenic print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago
[Eleanor on bed, Barbara in
window], 1954
silver gelatin print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Port Huron [Eleanor nude
from below], 1960
silver gelatin print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Maine [grasses in low light],
1962
silver gelatin print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
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
Untitled [unidentified street,
possibly in Italy], c.1968
silver gelatin print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Untitled [unidentified street,
possibly in Italy], c.1968
silver gelatin print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
New York [skyscrapers], 1974
silver gelatin print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Morocco [buildings], 1980
dye transfer print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Morocco [road in foreground,
white wall in distance], 1980
dye transfer print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Morocco [wall with palm
trees], 1980
dye transfer print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Morocco [wall with palm
trees, white car in centre],
1980
dye transfer print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Mexico [buildings with
doorway in centre], 1982
dye transfer print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Portugal [building facades],
1982
dye transfer print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Portugal [building facades,
shadow in foreground], 1982
dye transfer print
Purchased with funds
donated by The Rossy Family
Foundation
Portugal [street view with two
trees in foreground], 1982
dye transfer print
Purchased with fundsdonated by The Rossy FamilyFoundation
Portugal [view down narrowstreet], 1982dye transfer printPurchased with fundsdonated by The Rossy FamilyFoundation
Atlanta [man on sidewalk],1984dye transfer printPurchased with fundsdonated by The Rossy FamilyFoundation
From the Peachtree Series
[triptych, peeling posters],1987–1990chromogenic printPurchased with fundsdonated by The Rossy FamilyFoundation
COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON
The Temple, c.1907photogravureGift of Bill Jeffries
CORSAUT, SHARE
Monoprint #3—series 1, 1978silver gelatin printGift of Robert Keziere
Changing Squares—paper/grid/cardhousephotogram No.2, 1979silver gelatin printGift of Robert Keziere
No.14, 1981instant dye process printGift of Robert Keziere
Filter Folds No.4, 1982instant dye process printGift of Robert Keziere
Untitled, 1982instant dye process printGift of Robert Keziere
DADSON, ANDREW
Partially Painted, 2015oil on canvas
Purchased with funds
donated by Phil Lind
DAVIDSON, ROBERT
Raven Fin, 2014
red cedar, acrylic paint
Purchased with funds
from the Jean MacMillan
Southam Major Art Purchase
Fund, the Vancouver Art
Gallery Acquisitions Fund
and donations from Rick
Erickson and Tim Kerr
Octopus (Nuu), 2014
acrylic on canvas
Vancouver Art Gallery
Acquisitions Fund
DIKEAKOS, CHRISTOS
Concrete Debris, 2007–9
chromogenic print
Gift of the Artist
DOUGLAS, STAN
Klatsassin, 2006
single-channel video
Purchased with funds
from the Jean MacMillan
Southam Major Art Purchase
Fund and the Vancouver Art
Gallery Acquisitions Fund
FALK, GATHIE
Cabbage (from Hanging
Cabbages Environment),
c.1984
ceramic, paint
Gift of Erica Claus
FEYRER, JULIA
The Poodle Dog Ornamental
Bar, 2009
single-channel video
Purchased with proceeds
from the Audain Emerging
Artists Acquisition Fund
FOUQUET, MONIQUE
#41, 1979
graphite on paper
Gift of Robert Keziere
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OPPOSITE: Andrew Dadson, Partially Painted, 2015, oil on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with fundsdonated by Phil Lind
FRANK, ROBERT
City Fathers
(Hoboken, New Jersey),
1955–6
silver gelatin print
Gift of Claudia Beck and
Andrew Gruft
GOLKAR, BABAK
Brancusi’s Alien Fascination
(including Constantin),
2014
chromogenic print, steel,
wood, stain
Purchased with proceeds
from the Audain Emerging
Artists Acquisition Fund
From Africa to the Americas
(including To Cubism),
2014
chromogenic print, wood,
stain, Plexiglas
Purchased with proceeds
from the Audain Emerging
Artists Acquisition Fund
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
Artists Acquisition Fund
Tearless (including Never
Forgetting Richter), 2014
chromogenic print, wax,
cotton, wood
Purchased with proceeds
from the Audain Emerging
Artists Acquisition Fund
GROSSMANN, ANGELA
Broken Mirror, 2011
acrylic, collage on textile
Gift of the Artist
HATOUM, MONA
T42, 1993–8
stoneware
Gift of Monty James Cooper
HOGARTH, WILLIAM
John Wilkes, Esq., 1763etching on paperBequest of Stanley E. Read
HUGHES, E.J.
Breaker Beach, VancouverIsland, 1963oil on canvasGift of H. Richard Whittall
JUNGEN, BRIAN
Constrictor, 2010hide, threadGift of Donald Ellis
KEELEY, SHELAGH
House of Memory, House ofRegret, 1985graphite, oil stick, pigment,wax on paperGift of Claudia Beck andAndrew Gruft
after Lucretius /De RerumNatura / the nature of things,2012
26 unique sheets, acrylic on plastic filmGift of the Artist
KNOX, UNA
When What Becomes Who,2009single-channel videoPurchased with proceedsfrom the Audain EmergingArtists Acquisition Fund
KYDD, OWEN
Two Curves, Pico Boulevard,2012single-channel videoPurchased with proceedsfrom the Audain EmergingArtists Acquisition Fund
LANGERGRABER, KEITH
Britannia Beach (from theseries MorphologicalArchitecture), 2013graphite on paperGift of the Artist
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ABOVE: Stan Douglas, Klatsassin, 2006 (still), single-channel video, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with funds fromthe 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 andAndrew Gruft, © Robert Frank, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
MENS REA, 2013offset lithograph on paperGift of Moved Pictures Archiveand Giorgio Persano Gallery
MISS READ THE BERLIN ARTFAIR, 2013offset lithograph on paperGift of Moved Pictures Archiveand Miss Read (MichalisPichler and Vanessa Adler)
SLIGHTLY SHATTEREDSHARDS, 2013offset lithograph on paperGift of Moved Pictures Archiveand Editions Block, London
UNDERGROUND, 2013offset lithograph on paperGift of Moved Pictures Archiveand Rivington Press, London
CRISSCROSSED, 2014offset lithograph on paperGift of Moved Pictures Archiveand Christina GuerraContemporary Art
WEEK END #3, 2014offset lithograph on paperGift of Moved Pictures Archiveand Week End Festival
WEEK END #3, 2014offset lithograph on paperGift of Moved Pictures Archiveand Week End Festival
DEACCESSIONS
ONLEY, TONI
Fort Rodd Hill, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Heel Stone, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Lonely Place, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Presence in the Garden, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Silent Avenue, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Silent Grove, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Silent Sentinels, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Silent Stage, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Still Land, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Still Life, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
Still Water, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
White Cloud, 1968screenprint on paperGifted to the Kamloops ArtGallery
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ABOVE: John Vanderpant, Straw Hat [N.L. Cheney], c.1932, silver gelatin print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of TheVanderpant Collection OPPOSITE: Ron Terada, Jack, 2013, acrylic on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Acquisitions Fund