Featured Native Canadian Art from Winnipeg Art Gallery

This is from Winnipeg and I believe a sketch done by Native Canadians. It looks like it is done with pencil. Anyone with any more insight on this?

 

What "Winnipeg Art Gallery" is it from? What were you told about it? Is there a frame? If yes, would you include a photograph of the entire framed work? Is there anything on the back?

Debora

 

maybe The WAG....and that's slipping off the mat..

 

Very nice graphite piece-do you think it's an original ? Show us all the stuff Debora mentioned.
Komo's forgotten way more about the gallery biz than i'll ever know-always a perilous venture,i've seen a lot of superb ones go in the last 50 years.

 

THAT'S an adorable image - LOVE IT!!!!!

 

not enuf here to show it it's an original or a print.....

I have 3 like it ....somewhere around, & they're all open edition prints..

 

it's a classic subject matter...

 

It was bought from the WAG around 1980. I just found that it say “Friends”, 8/15, Thorneycroft May 79 on the very bottom of it.

 

well then....hit up the WAG......and track it down...

 

Would you be kind enough to post a photograph of the signature?

Debora

 

If it reads 8/15, it is likely a multiple. The 8th out of an edition of 15. Winnipeg + Thorneycroft = Diana Thorneycroft so you will want to see if the signature is hers. You can always ask either her or WAG. Given date, it would likely have been a student piece.

https://dianathorneycroft.com

https://www.wag.ca/about/contact/

Debora

 

Debora

 

have you seen her artwork............sensitive stuff for the timid..

 

Yes. One reason this would be an early piece.

Debora

 

I wonder why it would have been sold.

 

I suggest you ask the artist.

Debora

 

artist will sign a print different than an original..

 

Yeah. Or could be student signature vs. mature signature. Comparison doesn't rule out.

Debora