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Alicia Boutilier - "Whose Quilt is it Anyway?"
Alicia Boutilier presents the paper "Whose Quilt is it Anyway?" Part of Imagining History: A Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference, May 3-5 2012, Concordia University. This video has been created for educational purposes only. If you are the copyright holder to any of the images projected in the video and you object to their use in this fashion, please contact cwahi@alcor.concordia.ca .
Reproducing a public art project from Canada’s darker days
The Globe and Mail, January 30, 2015Print
It was a public art project worthy of the name: Between 1942 and 1963, from the darkest days of the Second World War to the heat of the Cold War, the distinguished Toronto graphic-arts company Sampson-Matthews Ltd. produced tens of thousands of prints of archetypal Canadian scenes for installation in barracks, banks, embassies and mess halls, schools, libraries and government offices. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada, a total of 117 silkscreen images of works from more than 50 artists, including A.J. Casson, A.Y. Jackson, Emily Carr and Arthur Lismer, formed the basis of the patriotic enterprise.
New year, new Agnes
Queen's JournalOnline
URL: https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2018-01-11/arts/new-year-new-agnes/
Agnes revitalization will include dedicated areas for Indigenous communities
Queen’s art gallery launches its “winter season”, seven new exhibitions
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Outdoor Aqua Park reopen
That '70s Kingston art scene
The Kingston Whig-Standard, June 2, 2016Online
URL: http://www.thewhig.com/2016/06/02/that-70s-kingston-art-scene
When Kingstonians think back to the 1970s, two big events likely spring to mind: the city's tercentenary [300th anniversary] in 1973, and the hosting of the summer Olympics' sailing competition in 1976. What also happened in Kingston at that time was the emergence of a new art scene in the city, as contemporary art was installed in public places, art programs were established at St. Lawrence College and Queen's University, and an artist-run art gallery took root.
Regina Haggo: In her own image
The Hamilton Spectator, July 10, 2016Online
URL: http://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/6758915-regina-haggo-in-her-own-image/
Women artists present themselves in their work. The senior curator of Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton has created many exhibitions. But The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists is special.
William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague
by Alicia Boutilier, Paul Marechal, Lydia Bouchard, Helene Sicotte
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
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William Brymner (1855-1925) is distinguished in the history of Canadian art as a painter of great talent and as an influential teacher who inspired many of Canada's best-known modern artists. As one of the first Canadian artists to study abroad and then as the director of the Art Association of Montreal art school from 1886 to 1921, his openness to new movements informed both his painting and his pedagogy. As an artist he rejected his formal training in order to explore the effects of light, colour and open space, as is particularly evident in his landscapes. This lavishly illustrated publication features one of the most important public collections as well as one of most important private collections of Brymner's work, that of Power Corporation of Canada. Four scholarly essays present a fresh look at a creative, social, and intellectual milieu in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that, in several ways, had Brymner at its core.
The Artist Herself / L'artiste Elle-Meme: Self-portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists / Autoportraits de Femmes Artistes au Canada
by Alicia Boutilier, Tobi Bruce
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
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New Canadiana: The Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund and Art As Social History
by Jan Allen, Alicia Boutilier, Dorothy M. Farr
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
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Through an audacious juxtaposition of historic with contemporary art spanning 1780 to 2005, this original publication exposes enduring issues and evolving narratives as perceived and recorded by artists. A wide range of work is discussed under three thematic banners: Settlement Nation and Migration, Nature and the Environment, and Social Life and Ritual. The multi-faceted staging of the Canadian experience is brought to life by key historical artists such as Emily Carr, Daniel Fowler, William Notman and Antoine Plamondon as well as by key contemporary artists such as Carl Beam, AA Bronson, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller and Joyce Wieland. Inspired by the mandate of the Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund at Queen's University and showcasing acquisitions the fund has made possible, New Canadiana highlights the value of works of art as historical documents and artifacts. The idea of the nation is at the core of the cultural sphere this collection aims to enhance and define.
Public Pictures/Private Homes: London's Lending Library of Canadian Art 1942 - 1975
by Alicia (essay) Boutilier
Museum London
January 1, 1970
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A Canadian Collection: The Soloway Gift
by Alicia Boutilier
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
1553394003
Over the second half of the twentieth century, Canadian philanthropist Ruth Soloway quietly built an astounding collection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture spanning the 1840s to the 1980s. While exposure to other cultures strengthened her artistic taste, she maintained a Canadian focus in her collection. From naturalistic landscapes of the nineteenth century to the bold views of Emily Carr and David Milne; from avant-garde abstractions by Paul-Émile Borduas and Jean-Paul Riopelle to figurative paintings by Alex Colville and Jean Paul Lemieux, from William Kurelek's Prairie children to Michael Snow's Walking Woman, the collection reveals a deep passion and keen eye for Canadian art.
Biography
Alicia Boutilier is Curator of Canadian Historical Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, where she has produced numerous exhibitions on Canadian historical art, northern indigenous art, and historical quilts. Before assuming her current position in 2008, she curated Canadian art exhibitions for several galleries across Ontario. Her exhibition publications include A Vital Force: The Canadian Group of Painters (2013); William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague (2010); Inspirational: The Collection of H.S. Southam (2009); Public Pictures/Private Homes: London's Lending Library of Canadian Art (1942–1975) (2007); An Intimate Circle: The F.B. Housser Memorial Collection(2005); and 4 Women Who Painted in the 1930s and 1940s: Rody Kenny Courtice, Bobs Cogill Haworth, Yvonne McKague Housser, and Isabel McLaughlin (1998). Boutilier is currently co-developing an exhibition entitled The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Women Artists 1850–1950 (forthcoming 2015).