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Travel the World Through The Artist’s Eyes

Say What? Art Terms For Beginners, Part 16

Artist In Our Collection: Myfanwy Pavelic (1916-2007)

Spring Forward with AGGV Gallery Shop Reading List

10 Things To Know About Chinese Sericulture: Smooth As Silk

Introducing the Spencer Showroom

Category: Painting

Travel the World Through The Artist’s Eyes

March 1, 2021February 28, 2021 art

By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer

Through history, travel has had an immeasurable impact on visual culture.

 AGGV Collection, Asian Art Collection, Painting, Photography

Artist In Our Collection: Myfanwy Pavelic (1916-2007)

March 1, 2021February 28, 2021 art

By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer

Myfanwy Pavelic’s portraits go far beyond the mere representation of her sitters. Mostly self-taught in her art, Pavelic produces portraits which balance the outer with the inner, countering likeness with her subjects’ emotions, fears, strengths and vulnerabilities.

 AGGV Collection, Painting

Art Quiz: Souvenirs of Travel

March 1, 2021February 28, 2021 art

With travel off the table for the time being, our Art Quiz this quarter brings you on a journey to Europe to whet your appetite for when we can once again travel for leisure.

 AGGV Collection, Painting

Artist In Our Collection: Maud Lewis (1903-1970)

December 1, 2020December 9, 2020 art

By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer

Three paintings by Maud Lewis (1903-1970) were recently gifted to The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria by Frances E. Rose, a wonderful first acquisition for the Gallery of work by the renown Nova Scotian artist.

 AGGV Collection, Painting

Carr and Collections: Q&A with India Rael Young, Curator of Art and Images at the Royal BC Museum

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 art

Nicole Stanbridge, Curator of Engagement, AGGV, interviews India Rael Young, Curator of Art and Images at the Royal BC Museum about the exhibition Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing – French Modernism and the West Coast.

 Emily Carr, Painting, Photography

An Inward Perspective: Celebrating the AGGV Collection

September 1, 2020September 9, 2020 art

By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer

Celebrating the AGGV Collection brings together the highlights in the AGGV’s permanent collection of artworks, bringing into perspective the breadth and depth of the Gallery’s holdings.

 AGGV Collection, Contemporary Art, Emily Carr, Film, Indigenous Art, Painting, Photography, Print

How We Fit Together: A Mural for New Extreme

May 31, 2020September 9, 2020 art

By Tasha Henry, Teacher at Cedar Hill Middle School.

As part of the New Extreme program, the wall of the Art Gallery building facing Moss Street gets a new mural installed every spring. This year, the group called Melanin Magic from Cedar Hill Middle School created the mural “How We Fit Together”, mentored by artist Andrea Searle.

 Education Programs, Painting

Artist In Our Collection: Vera Weatherbie (1909-1977)

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 art

By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer

Vera Weatherbie’s history as an artist is often overshadowed by her relationships with men and her exceptional beauty in many narratives.

 AGGV Collection, Painting

A Homage To Staying Home: The Art of Interior Spaces

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 art

By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer

This past Spring, during a time when, typically, the outdoors is celebrated for the rejuvenation of life after winter, much of humanity spent it indoors, under government lockdown orders to shelter from the unseen enemy of COVID-19. Our homes became our refuge and safe place.

 AGGV Collection, Painting, Print

Views of Victoria in the AGGV Collection

May 31, 2020 art

The varied land and seascapes around Victoria have provided inspiration to artists for hundreds of years. Can you identify where these locales are in the paintings, drawings and photographs below from the AGGV Collection?

 AGGV Collection, Painting, Print

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