Description
Michael Audain and Yoshiko Kurosawa are two of Canada's best-known art patrons: their donations are held not only by many private corporations but by many museums and galleries, including the National Gallery of Canada, and Vancouver Art Gallery. The collection contains works by a range of North America's most acclaimed artists, including Diego Rivera, Emily Carr and Brian Jungen. This is the first public exhibition of the privately held works in this collection. FEATURED WORKS Mid-nineteenth-century masks by Haida, Nuxalk, Salish, Tlingit and Tsimshian Contemporary works by such First Nations artists as Robert Davidson, Reg Davidson, Beau Dick, Richard Hunt, Brian Jungen, Marianne Nicolson and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Paintings by Emily Carr, B.C. Binning and E.J. Hughes, and contemporary works by Roy Arden, Gathie Falk, Rodney Graham, Angela Grossman, Ken Lum, Takao Tanabe and Etienne Zack. Mexican modernist works by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo and others.