Two paintings by Emily Carr
Emily Carr is one of Canada’s best-known artists, but the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has held few of her works until now. These two paintings were acquired by the paternal and maternal grandmothers of the brothers Ian and Andrew Burchett, who have donated them to the gallery along with a number of other Canadian paintings from their family’s collection. The works date to two distinct moments of Carr’s career: the earlier, from around 1907, depicts a Nisga’a totem pole reflecting Carr’s long interest in indigenous Canadian communities; the later, an untitled landscape thought to date to the early 1930s, evinces the post-Impressionist influences Carr picked up during her studies in France.
Winter Solstice Luminary Project to include Waterville students, families
Kits to be distributed to area schools Thursday, Dec. 17.
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Kacie Gerow with daughter Roslyn Gerow. Photo by Tony Gerow.
The Winter Solstice Luminary Project will expand and amplify the Art Kits for All program across Waterville, literally lighting up the city by providing luminary kits to approximately 1,600 students enrolled in the Waterville Public Schools.
Waterville Creates, in collaboration with community partners, including the Colby College Museum of Art, Kennebec Montessori School, Waterville School District, Family Violence Project, Waterville Parent Teacher Association, Northern Stars Planetarium, and the Children’s Discovery Museum will distribute kits to area schools on Thursday, Dec. 17. The free kits will include materials for two luminaries per kit along with battery-operated candles. Students and their families are encouraged to place the crafted luminaries at their homes and busin
Man with a Flowered Coat, 18th century, India, watercolour on paper Gift of Mr. Ambrose Cramer
The identity of a nobleman depicted in an 18th-century Indian miniature painting at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, was recently uncovered by a first-year student at the university, and corroborated by another graduating next spring. Previously known only as
Man with a Flowered Coat, the sartorially stunning subject holding a scroll and writing implement has been identified as Sayyid Muzzafar, the commander-in-chief for the 17th-century sultan Abul Hasan. The student’s discovery now links the miniature painting, held by the university museum since 1959, to other portraits of Muzzafar hanging in the British Museum in London and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.