List of Figures

Introduction

• Fig. 1.1 Florence Yee, A History of Canadian Art History (2016)

Knowing

• Fig. 2.1 Christi Belcourt, My Heart Is Beautiful (2014)
• Fig. 2.2 Cartier’s Map (1534)
• Fig. 2.3 Champlain’s Map (1632)
• Fig. 2.4 Anonymous, La France Apportant la foi aux Hurons de la Nouvelle-France (c. 1670)
• Louis Nicolas, Codex Canadensis (c. 1700)
• Fig. 2.5 Benjamin F. Baltzly, Cascade on the Garnet River, North Thompson River, BC (1871)
• Fig. 2.6 The Exhibition of Northwest Coast: Native and Modern (1927)
• Fig. 2.7 Frederick Alexcee, A Fight Between the Haida and the Tsimshian, Port Simpson (c.1896)
• The Spirit Sings (1988) and Carl Beam, The North American Iceberg (1986)
• Fig. 2.8 Joane Cardinal-Schubert, The Lesson (1989)
• Trevor Mack and Tailor Blais, Clouds of Autumn (2015)
• Carey Newman, The Witness Blanket (2015)
• Fig. 2.9 Adrian Stimson, Sick and Tired (2004)
• Fig. 2.10 Annie Pootoogook, Pitseolak Drawing with Two Girls on the Bed (2006)
• Fig. 2.11 David Ruben Piqtoukun, Division of Meat (1996)

Encounter

• Fig. 3.1 Hudson’s Bay Company, Team Canada Sweater (Vancouver Olympics) (2010)
• Fig. 3.2 Winnebago (possibly), Bandolier Bag (1880s)
• Fig. 3.3 Barry Ace, trinity suite: Bandolier for Niibwa Ndanwendaagan (My Relatives); Bandolier for Manidoo-minising (Manitoulin Island); and Bandolier for Charlie (2015)
• Figs. 3.4a Paul Kane, Kee-akee-ka-saa-ka-wow (1846) and 3.4b Paul Kane, Kee-akee-ka-saa-ka-wow (c. 1849–56)
• Fig. 3.5 William Berczy, Joseph Brandt (Thayendanegea) (c. 1807)
• Fig. 3.6 Ruth Cuthand, Trading: Smallpox (2008)
• Fig. 3.7 Emily Carr, Totem Poles, Kitseukla (1912)
• Fig. 3.8 Sonny Assu, What a Great Spot for a Walmart! (2014)
• Fig. 3.9 Brendan Tang, Manga Ormolu Ver. 5.0-x (2020)
• Fig. 3.10 Brian Jungen, Prototype for New Understanding #16 (2004)

Land/scape

• Figure 4.1 Françoise Sullivan, Dance in the Snow (Danse dans la neige) (1948)
• Figure 4.2 A.Y. Jackson, Terre Sauvage (1913)
• Figure 4.3 Horatio N. Topley, Vegetable display by J. Strasburgerca (1910)
• Figure 4.4 Homer Watson, The Stone Road (1881)
• Figure 4.5 Edward Poitras, Offensive/Defensive (1988)
• Caroline Monnet, Mobilize (2015)
• Figure 4.6 Lucius O’Brien, Sunrise on the Saguenay, Cape Trinity (1880)
• Figure 4.7  Elizabeth Wynn Wood, Northern Island (1927)
• Figure 4.8 Elizabeth Wynn Wood, Passing Rain (1928)
• Figure 4.9 David Milne, Painting Place III (1930)
• Isabelle Hayeur, Losing Ground (2015)
• Figure 4.10 Charles Comfort, Smelter Stacks, Copper Cliff (1936)
• Figure 4.11 Yvonne McKague Housser, Cobalt (1931)
• Figure 4.12 Edward Burtynsky, Nickel Tailings #34, Sudbury Ontario (1996)

Portraiture

• Fig. 5.1 Syrus Marcus Ware, Their Borders Crossed Us: For Eric (2015)
• Fig. 5.2 François Malépart de Beaucourt, Portrait of a Haitian Woman (1786)
• Fig. 5.3 François Fleischbein, Portrait of Betsy (c. 1837)
  
• Fig. 5.4 “Advertisement,” Quebec Gazette, January 29, 1778
• Fig. 5.5 John Rock, “Advertisement,” Nova-Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle, September 1, 1772
• Fig. 5.6 Prudence Heward, Hester (1937)
• Fig. 5.7 Image of Dorothy Stevens’s Coloured Nude (1932)
• Fig. 5.8 Prudence Heward, At the Theatre (1928)
• Fig. 5.9 Zacharie Vincent, Self-portrait, n.d. (before 1878)
• Fig. 5.10 Wampum belt (Eastern Woodlands) (18th or 19th century)
• Fig. 5.11 Annular brooch (Eastern Woodlands) (18th or 19th century)
• Fig. 5.12 Ceinture fléchée perlée (Huron-Wendat) (1825-75)
• Fig. 5.13 Cornelius Krieghoff, Moccasin Seller Crossing the St. Lawrence at Quebec City (c. 1853-63)
• Fig. 5.14 Judith Leyster, Self-portrait (c. 1630)
• Fig. 5.15 Jeff Thomas, The Bear Portraits: Cultural Revolution (1984)
• Fig. 5.16 Madame Gagné, Mrs. Wing Sing and Son, Montreal, QC (1890-95)
• Fig. 5.17 C.D. Hoy, Group of men in front of C.D. Hoy’s store in Quesnel, British Columbia (c. 1910)
• Fig. 5.18 Chinese immigration certificate (1913)

Belonging

• Fig. 6.1 Arthur Goss, Slum Exterior (early 1900s)
• Fig. 6.2 Deanna Bowen, 1911 Anti Creek-Negro (Muscogee) Petition (2013)
• Fig. 6.3 Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Treaty Card (2004)
• Fig. 6.4 Shelley Niro, 500 Year Itch from This Land is Mime Land (1992)
• Fig. 6.5 Jin-me Yoon, Souvenirs of the Self (1991)
• Fig. 6.6 Ken Lum, There’s No Place Like Home (2000)
• Fig. 6.7 Vera Frenkel, …from the Transit Bar (1992)
• Fig. 6.8 Camille Turner, Miss Canadiana, Hometown Queen Series (2011)
• Cornelia Wyngaarden and Andrea Fatona, Hogan’s Alley (1994)
• Stan Douglas, Circa 1948 (2014). Interactive digital installation. National Film Board of Canada.
• Fig. 6.9 Stan Douglas, Every Building on 100 West Hastings Street (2001)
• Fig. 6.10 Karen Tam, Tchang Tchou Karaoke Lounge (2008-2010)

Abroad

• Fig. 7.1 Installation view of the Canadian Section of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park in (1924)
• Fig. 7.2 Maurice Cullen, An African River (1893)
• Fig. 7.3 Helen McNicoll, Chintz Sofa (c. 1912)
• Fig. 7.4 Frances M. Jones Bannerman, The Conservatory (1883)
• Fig. 7.5 J.W. Morrice, Venice, Looking Out over the Lagoon (c. 1904)
• Fig. 7.6 Anne Kahane, Queue (1955)
• Fig. 7.7 Indians of Canada Pavilion (1967)
• Fig. 7.8 Henry Hunt and Tony Hunt, Totem Kwakiutl (1967)
• Fig. 7.9 Gerald Tailfeathers, Blackfoot Design (1967)

Institutions

• Fig. 8.1 Marianne Nicolson, The House of the Ghosts (2008-9)
• Fig. 8.2 William Notman & Son, Art Association building, Phillips’ Square, Montreal, QC, (c. 1890)
• Fig. 8.3 William Brymner, Old Man Painting in the Louvre, Paris, (1880/81 and 1902/3)
• Moshe Safdie, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Luc Bourdon, A Museum in the City (2011)
• Kent Monkman, Another Feather in Her Bonnet (2017)
• Andrea Fraser, Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk (1989)
• Fig. 8.4 James Luna, Artifact Piece (1987)
• Fig. 8.5 Rebecca Belmore, Mister Luna (2001) Agnes Etherington Art Centre
• Fig. 8.6 Spring Hurlbut, The Final Sleep, swans, study skins  (2001)
• Fig. 8.7 D’Arcy Wilson, Nest from “The Memorialist, Museology Series” (2016)
• Brendan Fernandes, Authority Inside (2016)
• Moshe Safdie, National Gallery of Canada (1988)
• The World Famous Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington
• Fig. 8.8 Articule
• Fig. 8.9 General Idea, Art Metropole, 241 Yonge Street, Toronto (1974)

Collectivity

• Fig. 9.1 Oolassie Akulukjuk, Dinah Andersen, Kathy Battye, Anna Etuangat, Leesee Kakee, Kawtysie Kakee, Sammy Kudluk, Louie Nigiyok, Mabel Nigiyok and Andrew Qappik (designer), with support from David Cochrane and Deborah Hickman, Achieving a Dream (2009)
• Fig. 9.2 John A. Fraser, A Shot in the Dawn, Lake Scugog (1873)
• Fig. 9.3 Ontario Society Members at the Opening of the Art Museum of Toronto (1918)
• Fig. 9.4 George A. Reid, Mortgaging the Homestead (1890)
• Fig. 9.5 Paul Peel, After the Bath (1890)
• Fig. 9.6 J.E.H. MacDonald, The Arts and Letters Club (n.d.)
• Fig. 9.7 J.E.H. MacDonald, Goat Range Rocky Mountains (1932)
• Fig. 9.8 A.C. Leighton, Mount Skoki (1935)
• Fig. 9.9 Edwin Holgate, Edwin A. Sherrard at the Violin (1934)
• Fig. 9.10 Lilias Torrance Newton, Self-portrait (c. 1929)
• Fig. 9.11 Pegi Nicol MacLeod, School in a Garden (c. 1934)
• National Film Board of Canada, “Headline Hunters” (1945)
• Fig. 9.12 National Film Board, “Photostory #308: New Canadian Committee Advises Arctic Craftsmen: Eskimo Art Approved by Experts” (1962)
• Fig. 9.13 Paul-Émile Borduas, Abstraction verte (1941)
• Fig. 9.14 Paul-Émile Borduas, Sous le vent de l’île ou 1.47 (1947)
• Fig. 9.15 Refus global (cover) (1948)
• Fig. 9.16 Jean Paul Riopelle, Pavane (1954)
• Skawennati Time Traveller (2008-2013)

Localities

• Fig. 10.1 Maud Lewis, Black Cat and Kittens (1955)
• Fig. 10.2 Alex Colville, To Prince Edward Island (1965)
• Fig. 10.3 Mary Pratt, Red Currant Jelly (1972)
• Fig. 10.4 Marion Nicoll, Bowness Road, 2 a.m. (1963)
• Fig. 10.5 Roy Kiyooka, Emma Lake (1958)
• Fig. 10.6 Garry Neill Kennedy, An American History Painting (The Complete List of Pittsburgh Paints Historic Colour Series) (1996)
• Fig. 10.7 Greg Curnoe, View of Victoria Hospital, Second Series (1969–1971)
• Fig. 10.8 Greg Curnoe, Doubtful Insight (1987)
• Fig. 10.9 Ian Wallace, Lookout (1979)
• Fig. 10.10 Jeff Wall, Landscape Manual (1969)
• Fig. 10.11 Jeff Wall, Mimic (1982)
• Fig. 10.12 Marcel Dzama, Untitled (2002)
• Qaumajuq Inuit Art Centre in Winnipeg
• Fig. 10.13 Zinnia Naqvi, The Wanderers – Niagara’s Falls, 1988 (2019) from the Yours to Discover series
• Fig. 10.14 Shellie Zhang, A Place for Wholesome Amusement (2018)

Activism

• Fig. 11.1 Life of a Craphead, King Edward VII Equestrian Statue Floating Down the Don River (2017)
• David Garneau, Dear John, Louis David Riel (2017)
• Rebecca Belmore, Quote, Misquote, Fact (2003)
• Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, It’s Still Privileged Art (1975)
• Barbara Todd, Security Blanket (1989)
• Barb Hunt, Antipersonnel (1998-2010)
• Natalie Wood, I Can’t breathe (2019)
• Canadian $10 Bill (2018)
• Letitia Fraser, Virtuous Woman (2019)
• David Woods (design) and Laurel Francis (quilting) Preston (2007)
• Sade Alexis, Rosemary (2021)