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#SuperbOwl you say? We have some of those, including this fine specimen by the great Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit 1927-2013). Long Feathered Owl, 1994, Stonecut on paper, Michael and Gail Golych Collection © Dorset Fine Arts #museumsuperbowl
Towards the end of his life, John Constable supervised and published a series of mezzotints based on a selection of his paintings of English landscapes. Our #VaultViewoftheWeek from that series is Summer Morning (Dedham Vale), 1831 by David Lucas. Levy Bequest Purchase
We love the behind-the-scenes peeks on #AskAConservator Day! Before and after pics of our Lawren Harris oil, Near Mongoose Lake, Algoma c.1918-1922. Gift of John and Georgia Parsons. Beautifully conserved by the Canadian Conservation Institute in 2013. #askaconservatorday
It's #ArtwordWednesday! acrylic paint: a fast drying, versatile, water-based paint popularized in the 1960s.
IMAGE: William Perehudoff (Canadian, 1919-2013), Andante AC 76 #25, 1976, Acrylic on canvas, Gift of Mr. A. Hugh Clark
Tomorrow at 12:30! #Classics professor Spencer Pope will be speaking at the Museum about coins from #antiquity to today. Free and open to the public. #McMaster https://t.co/XenHlnyUWY
#VaultViewoftheWeek Morning Toilet, 1953 etching by Irish-born Canadian artist George Wallace (1920-2009), who taught at McMaster University for 25 years. @mcmasterhum #HamOnt #Hamarts
Our Vault View of the Week is La Plonge 9, 1975 by William Perehudoff (Canadian 1918 - 2013) #McMasterMuseumofArt collection. Gift of Gordon Eberts. #saskatchewan #art #Canadianart
#HappyFathersDay Enjoy this detail of a father at play in Soroseelutu Ashoona's stonecut print © Dorset Fine Arts. Generously gifted to McMaster by Mr. W.M. Berry @McMasterAlumni #Classof1927 who purchased many early Inuit prints while visiting his sons working in Cape Dorset.
Flying Near the Rainbow, 1980 by Napatchie Pootoogook (#Inuit, b. Sako, Baffin Island, 1938 - d. Cape Dorset, 2002), stonecut and stencil on paper, The Michael and Gail Golych Collection © Dorset Fine Arts #RainbowMW #MuseumWeek #WomeninCulture #InuitArt #McMasterMuseumofArt
#InternationalDayofFamilies A rare happy family scene by German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) She made “Greeting” 1892 to commemorate the birth of her first child and went into labour while working on it. #McMasterMuseumofArt collection. #Kollwitz #WomeninCulture #MuseumWeek