Untitled was first presented in 2000 at the MSVU Art Gallery in the exhibition Prospect 8: Rebecca Roberts Paintings, while the artist was an undergraduate student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Roberts’ composite painting, based on colour photographs, comprises thirty-six panels of equal height and variable width butted together to form a continuous, eight-metre wide “strip.” The subject is a naked young woman.

Garry Neill Kennedy
NEW! 2006
oil and latex on canvas AP 7/8
31 x 41 cm, oval
Gift of Cathy Busby, 2006
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2006.5

Bernice Purdy
Untitled (Bus Stop) 1985
oil on canvas
61 x 45.5 cm
Gift of Valerie Thompson, 2008
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2008.1

Tartan/Borracho 1998
oil on canvas
167 x 152 cm
Gift of Charles Fowler, 2004
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2004.3

Jamie Baxter
Tartan/Ciclico 1998
oil on Canvas
167 x 152 cm
Gift of Charles Fowler, 2004
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2004.1

Jamie Baxter
Tartan/Eternidad 1998
oil on canvas
167 x 152 cm
Gift of Charles Fowler, 2004
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2004.2

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond
(b. 1941 Montreal, QC; lives in Clam Harbour, NS)
Dune, Clam Harbour #3 1981
oil on canvas
93 x 124 cm
Gift of the artist, 2002
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2002.18

Peter Dykhuis, Nov.2809:55z 1999
encaustic, enamel on 5 panels

What makes a painting authentic? Can painting stand for something apart from the fetish it has become? For thirty-five years, Ferguson has tackled such questions by substituting mechanical processes and found objects for the hand-made, personalized mark of the artist.

Alisa Snyder
(b. 1963, Providence, RI; lives in Ketch Harbour, NS)

Far in Summer 1995-96
oil on canvas
101.6 x 106.7 cm
Purchased with support from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program and the Newfoundland Capital Corporation, 1997
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1997.2

Jamie Baxter
Origins 1994
oil on canvas
122 x 104 cm
Gift of George Carlton Sollows, 1996
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1996.8

What makes a painting authentic? Can painting stand for something apart from the fetish it has become? For thirty-five years, Ferguson has tackled such questions by substituting mechanical processes and found objects for the hand-made, personalized mark of the artist.

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond
(b. 1941 Montreal, QC; lives in Clam Harbour, NS)
Amaryllis 1982
oil on Masonite backed with fiberglass backing
91.3 x 118.6 cm
Purchased with assistance from the Canada Council Art Bank, 1983
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1982.4.1

Marilyn McAvoy, Tug of War 1991
oil on canvas

Alisa Snyder
(b. 1963, Providence, RI; lives in Ketch Harbour, NS)

Gladioli and Black-Eyed Susan1991
oil on canvas
76 x 61cm
Purchased, 1991
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1991.6

Night Fight 1987
oil on canvas
40.5 x 51 x 1.9 cm
Purchased, 1987
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1987.3

Carol Fraser, Ambivalence 1970-71
oil on linen

Carol Fraser, The Solipsist 1974
oil on linen

Lynn Donoghue
William Kimber with Mme. Moitessier 1980
oil on canvas
213.3 x 152.4 cm
Purchased, 1984
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1984.1

Judith Mann, Untitled 1980
ink and conté on paper

Susanne MacKay’s paintings are empathetic and self-exploratory, probing into the lives of particular women, and in turn, into her own identity.

This piece is one of eight in a series of quilted paintings by renowned artist Gathie Falk. Falk used Instamatic photographs of friends in her Kistilano garden for the Beautiful British Columbia Thermal Blanket series.

Bernice Purdy
At the End of the Rope 1980
oil on canvas
167.5 x 76.7 cm
Purchased, 1981
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1981.1

Bernice Purdy
Welfare Lady 1979
oil on masonite
61 x 81 cm
Purchased, 1979
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1979.5