Beginning in 2016, research assistants working with the “Unsettling the Settler Artist, Reframing the Canadian Visual Arts” SSHRC Insight Grant project began compiling images, material culture, and ephemera that mapped settler colonization and colonial formations through visual art in the contested white state of “Canada.” This sampling represents a selection of their research.
Brandy Saturley. Let Your Backbone Rise, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, (91.5 x 91.5 cm). ArtMoi ID: 2Z6-034-2L6 (http://www.brandysaturley.com)
Tom Thomson. Cottage on a Rocky Shore, 1914. Oil on wood, mounted on plywood, (21.6 x 26.7 cm). NGC no. 4665
Thomas Davies. A North View of Fort Frederick Built by Order of the Honourable Colonel Robert Monckton, 1758. Watercolour, pen and black ink on laid paper, (37.7 x 53.6 cm). NGC no. 6269
Tom Thomson. The Poacher, 1915. Oil on wood panel, (21.5 x 26.8 cm). AGO ID. 69193
Norman K. Hay. Prospect, Nova Scotia, c. 1933. Watercolour on paper, (28.3 x 38.8 cm) Art Gallery of Nova Scotia no. 1976.22
A View of the Bridge on the River La Puce near Quebec in Canada, Taken near 1790, 1790. Watercolour over graphite on laid paper (34.1 x 51.5 cm). NGC no. 6278
A View of Château-Richer Church near Quebec in Canada, Taken in 1788, 1788. Thomas Davies, watercolour over graphite on laid paper (34.3 x 51.8 cm). NGC Accession no. 6279
Elizabeth Adela Forbes. A Woman and Child in a Hay Field, 1910. Watercolour over charcoal on wove paper, mounted on linen, (64 x 53.3 cm). NGC no. 1288
Clarence Gagnon. Harvesting, ca. 1930. Painting on paper, (21.2 x 18.9 cm). McMichael Canadian Art Collection no. 1969.4.27
Mary Pratt. Trout in a Bucket, 1974. Oil on board (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
William Armstrong. Thunder Cape, Lake Superior, 1867. Watercolour on paper, (69.2 x 49.8 cm) LAC 1970-188-2351
Francis Swaine. A View of Miramichi, after 1760. Oil on canvas (73.5 x 106.8 cm). NGC no. 4976
Franklin Brownell. Hay Sleds, Byward Market, Ottawa, 1916. Pastel on brown wove paper (28 x 37.8 cm). NGC no. 1434
Muskoka, 1875. Oil on canvas, (54 x 80.6 cm). OA no. 619842
George Heriot, An Encounter, Canada, c. 1799. Watercolour, scraper, pen and brown ink on heavy laid paper, (20.3 x 29.2 cm) NGC no. 26730
Thomas Davies. View on the River La Puce near Quebec in Canada, 1792. Watercolour over graphite on laid paper (51.3 x 34.2 cm). NGC no. 6274
Charles Huot. The Potato Peeler, date unknown. Oil on canvas (32.6 x 24.1 cm). NGC no. 37779
J.E.H. MacDonald, Harvest Field at Thornhill, 1913. Oil on canvas (16.2×22.5 cm). Vancouver Art Gallery no. 86.189
Frank Johnston. Camp Borden, 1919. Oil on Canvas, (137.6 x 183.6 cm). CWM no. 19710261-0242
Sawmill at Port Carling, Muskoka, 1885. Watercolour with touches of gouache over pencil on wove paper (20.4 x 13.5 cm). LAC R9266
Muskoka Scene, No date. Oil on cardboard, (91.4 x 149.9 cm). OA no. 619789
Franklin Carmichael. Wabajisik: Drowned Land, 1929. Water colour on gouache over charcoal on wove paper, (51.8 x 69.8 cm). NGC no. 37158
Mary Pratt. Glassy Apples, 1994. Oil on canvas (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Thomas Davies. A View near Point Levy opposite Quebec with an Indian Encampment, Taken in 1788, 1788. Watercolour over graphite on laid paper, (35.1 x 52.5 cm). NGC no. 6280
Jack Humphrey. Village, Grand Manan, 1936. Watercolour over charcoal on wove paper, (27.9 x 38.2 cm). NGC no. 16596
Tom Thomson. Timber Chute, 1915. Oil on composite wood-pulp board, (21.6 x 26.7 cm). NGC no. 4674
Robert Newton Hurley, North Battleford – At Sunset, 1942. Watercolour and Graphite, Mendel Art Gallery no. 1993.9
Agriculture – Stooks and Stooking, Gravelbourg District. Photograph, PAS R-A15121-1
Bill Waiser. Loyal Till Death: Indians and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885. Photograph, (11.5 x 16 mm). SAIN Bill Waiser Fonds, B19-Photos-Cree
Bill Waiser. Loyal Till Death: Indians and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885. Sketch, (8 x 16.5 mm). SAIN Bill Waiser Fonds, B19-Photos-Cree
Loading H.B.C. barges at Prince Albert for trading posts along the North Sask (multiple), ca. 1870. PAS R-A4371
Loading H.B.C. barges at Prince Albert for Trading Posts Along the North Saskatchewan River (multiple), ca. 1870. Photograph, (Various Sizes). PAS R-A4369
Loading H.B.C. barges at Prince Albert for trading posts along the North Sask (multiple), ca. 1870. PAS R-A4369
The bridges, St. John, NB, about 1898. Photograph. Silver salts on paper mounted on paper – Albumen process, (18cm x 24cm). McCord Museum VIEW-3269.1
Fort Pelly, 1920. Photograph. PAS R-A4371
Wm. Notman & Son. Mackie’s farm, North Battleford, SK, 1920, 1920. Silver salts on film, (20 x 25 cm). McCord Museum VIEW-8549
Wm. Notman & Son, J. Tait’s Farm, North Battleford, SK, 1920. Silver salts on film – Gelatin silver process, (20 x 25 cm). McCord Museum VIEW-8544.
A. Buisson, St. Anthony Mine (Panorama) Sturgeon Lake, Ont, 1936. Photograph. LAC PA-014872.
1200′ section, No. 2 vein, outcrop is at higher elevation above lake (150′) shows No. 10 Pit X, Great Bear Lake, N.W.T., 1931. Photograph. LAC PA-014785
Cameron Lake Settlement, Great Bear Lake, N.W.T., Photograph. LAC PA-017818.
Flin Flon Lake, Date Unknown. Photograph. LAC e002713113
Rough border of Laurentian plateau, Pikes Portage east of Great Slave Lake, N.W.T. Dura Lake portage, 1923. Photograph. LAC PA-019184
Charles MacMunn, Trestle at North Bend, BC, about 1885. Photograph, (16×21 cm). McCord Museum MP-0000.600.33
Construction of the Cantilever Bridge, Reversing Falls, Saint John, New Brunswick, c. 1885. Glass Lantern Slide, (8×10 cm). NB Museum Collection LS-AA188
Wallis & Shepherd. Interprovincial Bridge, Hull-Ottawa, QC-ON, 1900. Silver salts on glass – Gelatin dry plate process, (6cm x 8cm). McCord Museum MP-0000.27.182
William Notman, Old Mill Fall, Riviére du Loup, QC, about 1860. Silver salts on paper mounted on card – Albumen process, (7.3x7cm). McCord Museum N-0000.193.92.1
Man and woman in a garden, Toronto, Ontario, around 1859. Photograph, silver salts on paper – Albumen process, (10 x 12 cm). McCord Museum MP-1975.221.
Wm. Notman & Son. Drawing hay to market across the St. Lawrence River, QC, 1903. Silver salts, frosting on glass – Gelatin dry plate process, (20 x 25 cm). McCord Museum VIEW-3618
Louis Riel North West Rebellion 1885, 1885. Photograph, (10 x 21.3cm). CMH no. 996.2.18
Louis Riel North West Rebellion 1885, 1885. Photograph, (10 x 21.3cm). CMH no. 996.2.12
Hall & Lowe. Louis Riel North West Rebellion 1885, 1885. Photographic Print, (14.0 x 22.0 cm). CMH no. 996.2.31
Hall & Lowe. Louis Riel North West Rebellion 1885, 1885. Photographic Print, (17.5 x 12.5 cm). CMH no. 996.2.23
Louis Riel North West Rebellion 1885, 1885. Photograph (13.1 x 21.4cm) CMH no. 996.2.10.
1939 Royal Visit: King George VI & Queen Elizabeth, 1939. Promotional Thermometer, (15.4 x 20.5 x 0.8cm). CMH no. 998.14.12
Louis Riel North West Rebellion 1885 Hall & Lowe. Louis Riel North West Rebellion 1885, 1885. Photographic Print, (13.0 x 21.3 cm). CMH no. 996.2.35
Tom Thomson, standing on a rock fishing in moving water. Photograph, LAC Box 03935
Stony Creek Bridge, 296 ft. High, ca. 1905. Postcard. Manu’d by Thomson Stationary Co. (CHIN search: train bridge)
The bridges, St. John, NB, about 1898. Photograph. Silver salts on paper mounted on paper – Albumen process, (18cm x 24cm). McCord Museum VIEW-3269.1
Homer Watson. Sketchbook T Hay Wagon, Date Unknown. Drawing, (16.7 x 26.7 cm). NGC accession no. 7892.1-39
Homer Watson. Hay Wagon, date unknown, purchased 1962. Pen and black ink on wove paper, (14.4 x 20.8 cm) NGC no. 7892.10r.
Homer Watson. Hay Ricks, 1889-1890. Etching on wove paper, (12.7 x 17.8 cm). NGC no. 7901
Wm. Notman & Son. Oat field, F. Carpenter’s farm, Battleford, SK, 1920, 1920. Silver salts on film, (20 x 25 cm). McCord Museum VIEW-8546
Citation Abbreviations:
LAC – Library and Archives Canada
NGC – National Gallery of Canada
CMH – Canada Museum of History
AO – Archives of Ontario
PAS – Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan
SAIN – Saskatchewan Archival Information Network
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