Art Gallery of Mississauga, Permanent Art Collection

Shadow I, 1992
Carl Beam (b. 1943, West Bay, Manitoulin Island d. 2005)
mixed media on St. Armand hand made paper
100 x 150 cm
Purchased with the support of the Canada Council Acquisition Assistance Programme, 1996 [996.8.31]

Red Rocks at Belle Anse, Gaspé, 1949
Doris McCarthy, Toronto (b. 1910, Calgary)
oil on canvas
64 x 68 cm
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council Acquisition Assistance Programme, 1999 [999.4.98]

Sundancer Don’t Cry for Me, 1997
Jane Ash Poitras (b. 1951, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta)
mixed media on canvas
152 x 244 cm
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council Acquisition Assistance Programme, 1998 [998.15.80]

White and Yellow Flowers, 1958-9
William Goodridge Roberts (b. 1904, Barbados; d. 1974)
oil on board
64 x 81 cm
Purchase, 1994 [994.1.1]

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		Shadow I, 1992 Carl Beam (b. 1943, West Bay, Manitoulin Island d. 2005) mixed media on St. Armand hand made paper 100 x 150 cm Purchased with the support of the Canada Council Acquisition Assistance Programme, 1996 [996.8.31]
Carl Beam With parents of both Ojibwa and European descent, Carl Beam investigated issues of culture and history in his art. After a period at the Kootenay School of Art in 1971, Beam transferred to the University of Victoria in 1973, garnering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1976. As a student, Beam rebelled against the Native "formula" painting of the Woodland School and began integrating non-Native content into his works.
		*Untitled #11* (ed. 1/30), 1991-2 Tom Dean (b. 1947, Markdale, ON) woodcut 89 x 114 cm Collection of the Art Gallery of Mississauga Donated by Aldo L. Gottardo, Woodbridge, 1999
Tom Dean
Tom Dean received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in 1970 and was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2001. The Art Gallery of Mississauga exhibited Tom Dean: Aspiration and Entropy from October 30 to December 12, 2003. Tom Dean was Canada’s representative at the XLVIII Biennale di Venezia in 1999. In an essay in the catalogue for the Biennale, Jessica Bradley, who was at that time Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario wrote: “Tom Dean’s art emerges in the tensions between the ordinary and mythical, miniature and monumental, sacred and profane. His is an art that moves without pause from the dream world of the psyche and matters of the soul to an intensely material world grounded in the body. Its malaise is matched by exultation, its humour by lamentation.”

		*Mississauga-Sawmill Creek in Autumn*, 1982 George Hunter colour photograph 33 x 43 cm Donated by Patricia Stevenson, 2004
George Hunter
The first four stages of George Hunter's long career encompassed his years as a news photographer; as a documentary photographer with the National Film Board; as a commercial photographer working for most of Canada's major corporations; and, as a travel photographer who has visited over 125 countries on every continent except Antarctica. He has spearheaded the formation of the Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation, dedicated to researching, restoring and preserving vintage negatives and transparencies. The Art Gallery of Mississauga held an exhibition of Hunter's work from April 6 to May 21, 2006 titled George Hunter's Canada: 1945-1955.
		Red Rocks at Belle Anse, Gaspé, 1949 Doris McCarthy, Toronto (b. 1910, Calgary) oil on canvas 64 x 68 cm Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council Acquisition Assistance Programme, 1999 [999.4.98]
Doris McCarthy As one of Canada’s most recognized landscape painters, McCarthy is well known for her independent spirit and adventurous travels, often to remote parts of Canada. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and an art teacher at Toronto’s Central Technical School for forty years, McCarthy’s oeuvre has incorporated elements of the major movements in Canadian art. In 1999, the AGM produced a major touring exhibition on Doris McCarthy’s lifetime commitment to watercolour painting called A View from Here.
		Pink Red Sample, 1996 Andrew McPhail (Canadian) mixed media on mylar 122 cm x 122 cm Donated by the artist, 1997 [997.12.48]
Andrew McPhail Andrew McPhail received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from York University, Toronto. In 1996 the AGM mounted an exhibition of McPhail's work titled Decorology.
		Sundancer Don’t Cry for Me, 1997 Jane Ash Poitras (b. 1951, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta) mixed media on canvas 152 x 244 cm Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council Acquisition Assistance Programme, 1998 [998.15.80]
Jane Ash Poitras As a student, Jane Ash Poitras intended to pursue a career in medicine, and earned a degree in microbiology before deciding to study art, receiving her B.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, and her M.F.A. in Printmaking from Columbia University, New York. She currently lives in Edmonton.
		White and Yellow Flowers, 1958-9 William Goodridge Roberts (b. 1904, Barbados; d. 1974) oil on board 64 x 81 cm Purchase, 1994 [994.1.1]
William Goodridge Roberts William Goodridge Roberts began his formal art education in 1923 at the Ecole des Beaux-arts, Montreal. His studies continued with a move to New York to attend the Arts Students League. He began teaching art in 1930, and continued throughout much of his celebrated artistic career. In the 1930s, Roberts belonged to a Montreal-based group of painters called the Contemporary Arts Society, which was formed partially because members disagreed with the beliefs of the Group of Seven.
		*Warrior's Lament*, (ed. 65/150), 1979 Abraham Anghik Ruben serigraph 77.5 x 56.5 cm Donated by Mrs. Ann Levitt, 2003
Abraham Anghik Ruben Born in 1951 near Paulatuk, NWT the artist now resides in Salt Spring Island, BC. Ruben, a well-established, mature artist, studied with Ronald Senungetuk at the Native Arts Centre at the University of Alaska in 1971 and 1974. Since the 1980s, he has had several innovative solo shows, including at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2001. Ruben exhibited at the AGM, 2005 in the group exhibition Inuit Sculpture Now, organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada.
		Tabula (ed. 4/5), 1993 Jeannie Thib (b. North Bay) linocut on mulberry paper, ink 5 panels, 121 x 91 cm each Donated by the artist, 1995 [995.17.20.1 to 995.17.20.5]
Jeannie Thib With an upbringing on the shores of Lake Nippissing and a B.F.A from York University, Jeannie Thib developed an interest in the relationship between humans and nature. Her prints address issues of survival and morality in both civilization and wilderness. Tabula focuses on the hand, which is associated with identity, the occult, forensic science, as well as holistic and conceptual thinking. The title refers to the term 'tabula rasa', literally a slate scraped clean of its incised writings.
		Beyond Credit, 1997 Julie Voyce (b. Woodstock, ON) watercolour on paper 27 x 22 cm Purchase, 1997
Julie Voyce Born in Woodstock, Ontario, and raised in Ottawa, Voyce's art studies began at the Ottawa Municipal Art Centre and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. She also studied drawing and printmaking at the Ontario College of Art. Voyce draws upon mass media and advertising to create her fantastical, whimsical images, sometimes with a darker side to them. Voyce's artworks have been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. A solo exhibition of Voyce's work entitled The Solo Show with a Boutique was held at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in 1996. The artist's works are included in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the Artist Book Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, as well as private collections.