Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

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The Bachelor Stripped Bare: The male nude in prints and drawings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

28 August – 11 October, 1998

The image of the male nude has dominated western art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. The privileged role of the iconic, classical nude, an ideal of power and beauty, was affirmed in the all-male life classes of the European Academies of art. This selection of over 70 prints and drawings from the permanent collection of the National Gallery includes images by artists of historic importance such as Alberti, Delacroix, Dürer, Gandolfi, Golzius, Raimondi and Rembrandt, as well as examples of the more modern school by Cézanne, Chagall, Hockney and Schiele, to name a few.

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A Gentler Time: English and Canadian watercolour landscapes and other works on paper from the Dorthy Ward Bequest

22 May – 12 July, 1998

This exhibition of over 70 watercolour landscapes and prints selected from the Ward Bequest (part of the gallery’s permanent collection) provides a unique window on the relationship between the English and Nova Scotian art scenes in the late 19th century and in the early decades of this century. Its slightly ironic title refers to the fact that the works reflect no hint of the darker aspects of the period – as if the golden scenes of haymaking or of tan-sailed luggers drifting off the coast would continue unchanged forever.

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Wayne Boucher, Middling, 1995
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Landscape in Question: Contemporary works selected from recent acquisitions to the Permanent Collection

22 May – 12 July, 1998

Selected from recent Permanent Collection acquisitions, these contemporary works by Nova Scotian artists provide a quizzical perspective on the conventions of landscape painting. Gerald Ferguson’s lushly painted views of Nova Scotia are, in fact derived from tourist postcards and turn out to have been painted by another artist altogether, who followed Ferguson’s minimal instructions. Susan McEachern’s intricate mixed-media panels present a narrative of maps, text and photographs layered into rough-hewn wood and plexiglass frames.

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Theatrum Mundi: The 1997 Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition

5 March – 19 April, 1998

Paintings, prints, sculpture, bookworks, video and mixed-media installations by twenty-five contemporary artists from all four Atlantic Provinces were selected for this biennial touring exhibition. Curator Susan Gibson Garvey uses the metaphor of a sixteenth-century “cabinet of wonder” to present a thought-provoking perspective on regional art production. Organized and circulated by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, this exhibition is funded by the McCain Family in memory of the late Marion McCain.

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In Passing/ En passant

9 January – 22 February, 1998

This exhibition brings together works that deal with ephemeral aspects of existence in a poetic, non-didactic manner. In contrast to the more analytical approach often taken when presenting contemporary art, the motive behind this show is to suggest feelings, memories and visions that gather around the notion of temporality, and encourage a contemplative response.

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Herzl Kashetsky: A Prayer for the Dead

9 January – 22 February, 1998

For more than 20 years, Saint John artist Herzl Kashetsky has been working on this series of paintings and drawings which represent a personal attempt to come to terms with the events and meaning of the Holocaust.

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The 44th Annual Student, Staff, Faculty and Alumni Exhibition and works from the Faculty of Architecture

28 November – 21 December, 1997

Our annual celebration of the Dalhousie community's creativity, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, sculpture, and crafts, makes no distinction between amateurs and professionals. The exhibition is open to students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie, Daltech, and of the University of King's College. Entries of work (ready to install, please) will be accepted during Gallery hours, from 4 November to 21 November. Entry forms will be available at the Gallery's front desk by mid-October. 

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Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land

23 October – 23 November, 1997

This exhibition presents the works of six contemporary Canadian photographers - Robert Bean, Edward Burtynsky, Blake Fitzpatrick, Geoffrey James, Mark Ruwedel and James Williams - who document and interpret certain kinds of intervention in the landscape of North America. Specific forces (social, industrial, ideological, aesthetic) are implicated as agents of rearrangement.

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Hymn to the Sun: Jack Bush Early Work 1929-1956

23 August – 5 October, 1997

This exhibition examines the formative period of the career of Jack Bush (1909-1977), arguably one of Canada’s most important abstract painters, from his early years as a commercial artist, through a critical period of self-examination to his breakthrough in the mid-fifties. Based on recently unsealed diaries from the Art Gallery of Ontario and letters from Bush to Clement Greenberg in the Smithsonian Institute, curator Michael Burtch’s catalogue essay traces the immense inner struggle of this artist, psychologically, spiritually and aesthetically.

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Cliff Eyland: Abstract Paintings

23 August – 5 October, 1997

Cliff Eyland’s small file-card sized paintings employ an encyclopedic range of media and subject matter divided into related “sets”. A selection from his set of abstract paintings will be displayed in the front alcove gallery. These works are not intended to satirize or even make reference to other abstract works; rather they should be read as a species of conceptual art. Nevertheless, through juxtaposition with the Bush works, comparisons in terms of scale, originality and ambition are interesting and inevitable.

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