Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection. This item is unavailable.Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection

Michael Audain and Yoshiko Kurosawa are two of Canada's best-known art patrons: their donations are held not only by many private corporations but by many museums and galleries, including the National Gallery of Canada, and Vancouver Art Gallery. The collection contains works by a range of North America's most acclaimed artists, including Diego Rivera, Emily Carr and Brian Jungen. This is the first public exhibition of the privately held works in this collection. FEATURED WORKS Mid-nineteenth-century masks by Haida, Nuxalk, Salish, Tlingit and Tsimshian Contemporary works by such First Nations artists as Robert Davidson, Reg Davidson, Beau Dick, Richard Hunt, Brian Jungen, Marianne Nicolson and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Paintings by Emily Carr, B.C. Binning and E.J. Hughes, and contemporary works by Roy Arden, Gathie Falk, Rodney Graham, Angela Grossman, Ken Lum, Takao Tanabe and Etienne Zack. Mexican modernist works by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo and others.

Ian Thom is a Senior Curator-Historical at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Involved in Canadian art museums for more than thirty years, he has authored or co-authored many books, including Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn, and Andy Warhol: Images. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Grant Arnold is Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Over the past twenty years he has contributed to more than thirty exhibitions of historical, modern and contemporary art, including Ken Lum; Mark Lewis: Modern Time; and Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs. He lives in Vancouver, BC.