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Robert Charles (G̲uud San Glans) Davidson (Haida/Canadian Born 1946) Seawolf Inside Its Own Dorsal Fin 1982

NORTHWEST COAST COLLECTION OF PHIL NUYTTEN
Exhibition opens Feb 17th

Uno Langmann is excited to announce an upcoming exhibition highlighting the Northwest Coast collection of entrepreneur and author Phil Nuytten with works by Robert Davidson, Beau Dick, Ellen Neel, Bill Holm, John Livingston, Dorothy Grant, Henry Hunt and more.

The exhibition will also showcase a rare collection of works by Charlie James, Mungo Martin, Ellen Neel that Phil Nuytten collected over a lifetime, before being sent to museums. This exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the vibrant tapestry of indigenous artistry curated by Phil Nuytten.

Phil Nuytten
Businessman, Inventor, Sub-sea Engineer, Diver, Marine Archaeologist, Author, Carver and Native Advocate

“My interest in art from the Northwest Coast began in my teenage years when I was fortunate enough to apprentice with a master carver. I spent several summers in British Columbia working with Ellen Neel and sometimes with heruncle Mungo Martin. I wanted to be a master carver – a totem pole carver. Life, however led me in other directions. Nevertheless, I never lost my interest in native culture, its objects, and its artifacts.

The types of things that I collect are many and varied, mostly the things I like the look and feel of. I do a lot of this kind of artwork myself. As a consequence, I have a foot in both worlds – the world of the artist and the world of the collector. The pieces are most wonderful to look at, they also inspire me to find out more about the technique. How were they made? How can I first recreate them as studies and then create my own work based on them?

I have been collecting native art since I was about 11 or 12 years old. Many of the items I collect are made by the people whose lives I have studied and written about in periodicals. If an artifact needs to be in my collection, it will tell me so. I can almost hear it calling.

I believe some of the Northwest Coast pieces I have collected are very important to scholars because they are unique. They are works that were produced either earlier in the career of a certain carver or for a particular, rather obscure ceremony. By Bringing them together it is possible to see how an artist’s work has progressed over the years.”

Excerpt from an interview, April 2004 - Source: Vancouver Art Gallery


William (Bill) Ronald Reid (Canadian 1920-1998)

The Bear Mother & The Dogfish Woman From The Spirit Of Haida Gwaii
pair of cast bronze sculptures, edition 3/9, bears signature, factory  stamp and edition "© Bill Reid 1986-91 III/IX TX"
Size: The Dogfish Woman 33 ½ x 30 ⅜ x 38 ⅙ in | The Bear Mother 27 ½ x 23 ½ x 34 ¼ in
Exhibitions:
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery 1993-1996
National Museum of Singapore
Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale 2005-2007


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UBC LIBRARY'S RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

The donation of the Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs to the University of British Columbia Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections consists of more than 22,000 images from over 80 albums. This collection includes extensive coverage of B.C. from the 1850s to the 1950s and includes photographs in a wide variety of formats and genres including albums, diaries, portraits, landscapes and city/townscapes.

Images from the collection are being digitized on an ongoing basis. Library users will be able to request items from the physical collection through UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections.


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“Royal BC Museum acquires rare painting from B.C.’s first professional Black painter.” - written by Elizabeth McSheffrey for Global News

It’s the newest gem in the Royal BC Museum’s collection of more than 10,500 works of art — a painting of the Victoria Harbour, made in 1883 by Grafton Tyler Brown.

The museum is celebrating its acquisition of Entrance to the Harbour as part of Black History Month. It was one of Brown’s few works while he lived in the city.

Brown is widely considered to be the first professional Black painter in B.C.

“As far as we know, to date, Grafton was the first Black artist to paint an exhibit here in Victoria and in the province of B.C.,” Royal BC Museum art and images curator India Young said.

“What is interesting about Brown is that over the course of his travels, he really shifted his identity.”

 

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