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ALPHABETICAL ORDER : THINGS ARTISTS HAVE DRAWN

prints and drawings from the Permanent Collection

Curator: Mora Dianne O’Neill
Dates: 29 September 2018 – 31 March 2019

A year ago, the Oyler Gallery of Historical Canadian Prints and Drawings celebrated printmakers who have worked in Nova Scotia with an artist for every letter of the alphabet, and visitors were challenged to find objects that also represented every letter in the prints themselves.

This exhibition focuses, not on the artists, but instead on the things they have drawn, beginning with Apple, and ending with Zebra. We have only one apple and one zebra in the collection, but complementary or contrasting images are included where possible.

Moses Harris 
A Plan of the Harbour of Chebucto and Town of Halifax 1750
hand-coloured engraving on laid paper 24.0 x 28.9 cm
Gift of John and Norma Oyler, 1998.592

Alan Syliboy 
All My Relations, Butterfly 1992
serigraph 41.0 x 51.0 cm
Purchased with funds provided by MT&T, (An Aliant company),1993.109

B is for Butterfly, its double-curved line
A symbol of balance between world and spirit.
Of our need to unite the lands we inhabit,
The ‘admirable’ White is also a sign.

MAUD LEWIS

REALISM’S REACH

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