Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection - Hardcover

Ellis, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1553653327 ISBN 13: 9781553653325

Publisher: Donald Ellis Gallery, 2007

Synopsis

This stunning catalogue celebrates the remarkable return of 36 masterpieces of Tsimshian art collected in northern British Columbia more than 40 years ago.

In October 1863, Reverend Robert J. Dundas of Scotland purchased eighty "ceremonial objects" that missionary William Duncan of Old Metlakatla (near Prince Rupert) had acquired from the local Natives. The collection, including carved clubs, masks, rattles and headdresses, remained in the Dundas family until October 2006, when it was put on the block at auction in New York and sold for over $7 million.

This sumptuous book features fifty full-colour plates and four essays on these masterworks of Northwest Coast art, all honouring an extraordinary moment in Canadian cultural history.

About this title

About the Author

Donald Ellis, a major dealer in historical North American Indian art, helped to return a major portion of the Dundas Collection to Canada and has played the lead role in organizing the subsequent exhibition. He heads the Donald Ellis Gallery in Dundas, Ontario. Sarah Milroy is a Toronto writer and art critic. She served as editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine (1991-96) and as art critic of the Globe and Mail (2001-10). Milroy has contributed to publications on the work of Gathie Falk, Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe and Fred Herzog, and is a regular contributor to Canadian Art, Border Crossings and The Walrus. Steven Brown has been a student of Northwest Coast Native cultures since the mid-1960s and is a former curator at the Seattle Art Museum. He lives in Sequim, Washington. Allan Hoover is a former curator and manager at the Royal BC Museum, where he worked for more than thirty years. He lives in Victoria, BC. Bill Holm, artist and teacher, is a leading authority on the art and customs of Northwest Coast Indians. He has held the positions of curator emeritus of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, and professor emeritus of art history at the University of Washington. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Donald Ellis Gallery
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553653327
• ISBN 13: 9781553653325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Photos
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144