2009 Acquisitions
The Mendel Art Gallery acquired 23 new works of art in 2009. Fourteen of the 23 works were gifts, and eight were purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Gallery Group Volunteers.
Clint Neufeld
American Beauty, 2008
ceramic, glaze, decals and Plexiglas
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts 2009.
David Allan Thauberger
Snow House, 2003
acrylic and glitter on canvas
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council of the Arts and funds raised by the Gallery Group 2009.
Marc Courtemanche
Sawhorse, 2007
stoneware and metal installation
Gift of the artist
David Diviney
The Hunter, 1999
plywood, Coreplast, varnish, acrylic and balaclava
Gift of Donna Wawzonek
Sybil Jacobson
The Golden Month, n.d.
oil on linen
Gift of Cecile Lund
Sybil Jacobson
Untitled (rock slide), n.d.
oil on linen
Gift of Cecile Lund
Otto Donald Rogers
Yellow Bird, 1959
serigraph on paper
Gift of Sharon Tokarchuk
Robert Newton Hurley
Untitled (power plant), 1963
watercolour on paper
Gift of Susan Adams
Wynona Croft Mulcaster
Untitled ( landscape with distant city), n.d.
oil on Masonite
Gift of Susan Adams
Dorothy Elsie Knowles
Untitled (poppies), n.d.
watercolour and graphite on paper
Gift of John Dalzell
Paul Fournier
Vizcaya II, 1978
acrylic and collage on canvas
Gift of Leon Liffmann
Paul Fournier
The Orange Curtain, 1976
acrylic and pastel on canvas
Gift of Leon Liffmann
Ruth Cuthand
Cut on the Dotted Line, 1986
monoprint on paper
Gift of Gail Sheppard
Ruth Cuthand
Not My Land, You Don’t, 1986
monoprint on paper
Gift of Gail Sheppard
Charles Obert Ringness
Playing in the Street, 1979
concrete, metal and glass on wire on plywood
Gift of the artist
Charles Obert Ringness
Reflections of the Past, 2002
encaustic on canvas
Gift of the artist
Wally Dion
A Hardening of the Arteries, 2009
stainless steel on plywood
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council of the Arts and funds raised by the Gallery Group 2009.
Daphne Odjig
The Evil Spell, 1995
serigraph on paper
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts 2009.
Ed Pien
Moon Spirits, 2003
flasche and ink on paper
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts 2009.
Ed Pien
Stinky Heads, 2003
flasche and ink on paper
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts 2009.
Ed Pien
They Have Her Surrounded, 2003
flasche and ink on paper
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts 2009.
Ed Pien
Outcasts Bonding Together, 2003–04
flasche and ink on paper
Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts 2009.
