These “portraits” are made with pooling black ink washes. Due to the uncontrolled nature of this medium, the images are sometimes identifiable, and sometimes abstracted.

Nancy Edell
Art Nun Portrait I 1993
hooked wool, oil over acrylic on plywood panels with cut-out relief and painted decorative mouldings
Left and right panels each: 32 x 32 cm; centre panel: 32.5 x 32.5 cm
Purchased with partial financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, 2000
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2000.8

Jim Shirley
(b. 1944 South Bronx, NY; lives in Rankin Inlet, NU)
Cape Breton Apocalypse 1981
monotype
Sheet: 51 x 64 cm, Image: 40 x 50.7 cm
Purchased with matching funds from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, 2000.
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2000.1

Jim Shirley
(b. 1944 South Bronx, NY; lives in Rankin Inlet, NU)
Clyde Street Portraits 1976
pinhole photographs (4), photographed by Peggy Hogan
Circular, 18.7 cm diameter
Purchased with matching funds from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, 2000.
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2000.2

Jim Shirley
(b. 1944 South Bronx, NY; lives in Rankin Inlet, NU)

Self-Portrait II 1976
monotype
Sheet: 76.4 x 57.4 cm, Image: 43 x 35.7 cm
Purchased with matching funds from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, 2000.
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
2000.3