2014/2015 ANNUAL REPORT

Contents

Chairman’s Message 4-5

Director & CEO’s Message 6-7

Board of Governors 8

WAG Foundation Vision 9 The Winnipeg Art Gallery is a cultural advocate—a lens and Staff a forum—helping people see and experience more through art. 10-11

Mission The Volunteer Associates Playing a vital role in the community, engaging people of all ages of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and backgrounds, the Winnipeg Art Gallery thrives as a creative and 12-13 accessible place for learning, discovery and inspiration through art, with a particular focus on Inuit art and culture. Inuit Art Centre 14-19

Strategic Pillars Exhibitions I. Art • Building a collection of the highest standards with special focus 20-35 on Canadian and Indigenous art, and presenting world-class exhibitions supported by innovative programs, events, and partnerships. Publications 30 II. Learning • Committed to engaging people with art and creative Acquisitions learning, the WAG inspires and enriches, fostering relationships with 36-41 individuals, organizations, and communities to support lifelong learning. Outgoing Loans III. Community • Supporting the individual talents and collective 42 strengths of staff and volunteers to advance the WAG’s mission of engagement with all stakeholders. Programs and Events 43-53 IV. Place • Providing a dynamic and respectful place for people and ideas within an environment that promotes creativity, learning, and Support enjoyment through art. 54-61

Financials V. Resources • Managing resources responsibly to ensure operational 62-63 growth and diversification.

cover: Salvador Dalí. Santiago El Grande (detail), 1957, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Gift of The Sir James Dunn Foundation © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí/ SODRAC (2014).

2014/2105inside ANNUALcover: REPORT • 1 Do A Dalí social media Dalí Up Close and Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery was Manitoba’s first major exhibition of Salvador Dalí, opening to record crowds at WAG.

Matt Hagen, Ryan Lewis, and Evan Taylor, University of Manitoba. SKYBOX, 2013; Philippe Halsman. Yes, but don’t try to uncover my secret (Dalí’s Mustache) (detail), 1954. Philippe Halsman Archive © Philippe Halsman Archive. Image rights of Salvador Dalí reserved. Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014. A year of firsts. Chairman’s Message

The 2014/15 year was an A second milestone that will come to fruition in the 2015/16 year is Olympus: The Greco-Roman outstanding one at the Winnipeg Collections of Berlin. The Board was instrumental in Art Gallery, featuring several securing honorary patronage for this monumental exhibition and is pleased to have the endorsement of high-profile exhibitions. Behind His Excellency Werner Franz Wnendt, Ambassador the scenes, the Board of of the Federal Republic of Germany to Canada; His Excellency Gian Lorenzo Cornado, Ambassador Governors continued to support, of the Italian Republic to Canada; His Excellency oversee, and ensure that the George Marcantonatos, Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to Canada; and the Honourable Shelly WAG continues to be a community Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official leader that enables people to Languages. It has been rewarding to see the incredible response of corporate sponsors as well see more of life and society as the Greek and Italian communities in Winnipeg, through the experience of which have been vital to making this historic exhibition possible. art and artistic innovation. Thank you to Dr. Stephen Borys for his outstanding leadership, and to the Gallery staff and management One significant milestone to highlight is the drafting whose hard work and dedication made this another and approval of a new Strategic Plan that will serve wonderful year in WAG history. the WAG until 2017. This new plan includes a special focus on Canadian and Indigenous art, and further On behalf of the Board of Governors, I thank all the outlines the Gallery’s direction, building on its donors, sponsors, Gallery visitors, volunteers, and existing mission, vision, and strategic pillars. members who made the past year a success.

Dr. Ernest Cholakis, DMD, MBA Chair, Board of Governors

4 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Artist Alex Janvier at the opening of 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.

Dr. Cholakis welcomes guests to the sold-out Gallery Ball 2014.

Visitors enjoy the Elisapee Ishulutaq exhibition.

Dr. Ernest Cholakis and wife Dr. Anastasia Kelekis- Cholakis at the opening of the Dalí and Beaverbrook exhibitions.

Cathy Busby. We Are Sorry (detail), 2010. Winnipeg Art 2014/2105Gallery. ANNUAL REPORT • 5 Director & CEO Message

This past year was one of Dalí Up Close and Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery were Manitoba’s first major exhibition of many firsts for the WAG as we Salvador Dalí, and the response from the community continued to expand the dialogue was amazing. The exhibitions opened to record crowds in September, and attendance remained with audiences across the city, strong, resulting in the four-week extension of the province, and country, bolstering shows and over 40,000 visitors. The WAG reached out to new audiences, new communities, and new our position as Manitoba’s stakeholders—confirming the critical role the Gallery leading art museum. plays in Winnipeg and across Canada.

Olympus: The Greco-Roman Collections of Berlin in In May the WAG launched 7: Professional Native 2015/16 is yet another first—or rather, a first in over Indian Artists Inc. (7:PNIAI), featuring the work of half a century. This historic exhibition is Manitoba’s Canada’s first Indigenous artist collective: Norval first major display of classical antiquities since Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Jackson Beardy, Eddy the WAG presented The Treasures of Tutankhamun Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Carl Ray, and Joseph in 1964. Sanchez. 7:PNIAI provided a glimpse at a vision that flourished despite the struggles these artists 2014/15 saw the Inuit Art Centre project move faced within the context of mainstream Canadian forward with significant interest shown through society, and recognized their contributions to the developing partnerships in the south and the north, development of Indigenous artistic production and programming initiatives, and financial commitments Canadian art history. Organized by the MacKenzie from the private sector. Media attention from across Art Gallery, the exhibition drew on both private and the country highlighted the project and its long- public art collections, including recently uncovered standing ties to the North and Inuit. The Inuit Art masterworks not publicly accessible for many years. Centre is much more than a building—it is a forum, a community, and a place where people will come For the first time in Western Canada, the WAG was together to explore, converse, and enjoy. honoured to host the exhibition of shortlisted artists for the Sobey Art Award—the pre-eminent prize for The WAG Board, Foundation, membership, contemporary Canadian art—bringing together under volunteers, and staff all come together to make one roof some of the country’s brightest young tremendous things happen at the WAG. I am artists. From our inaugural exhibition of Canadian incredibly grateful for their support as we work art in 1912 to the launch of the Winnipeg Show in together to build the new Inuit Art Centre and 1955 to our centennial exhibition Winnipeg Now in continue to make the WAG a creative, relevant, 2012, the WAG has been exhibiting contemporary and accessible place for our great community. art for over a century. Contemporary art is also at the heart of our Inuit art collection, the largest of its kind in the world. Dr. Stephen Borys, PhD, MBA Director & CEO

6 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Dr. Stephen Borys in the Rooftop Sculpture Garden.

Guests take in the work of shortlisted artists during the 2014 Sobey Art Award Gala.

Visitors enjoy the 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. exhibition.

Dr. Stephen Borys with his Dalí moustache at the media preview of the Dalí and Beaverbrook exhibitions.

Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier. Library (detail), 2014. Collection of the artists; Daphne Odjig. From Mother Earth Flows the River of Life (detail), 1973. Canadian Museum of Civilization and Jackson Beardy. Cycle of Life (detail), 1972. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada; Augustus Edwin John. Dorelia (detail), c. 1916, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Gift of The Beaverbrook 2014/2105Foundation. ANNUAL REPORT • 7 Board of Governors

Chair Ex officio Ernest Cholakis, Stephen D. Borys, Dentist, Cholakis Dental Group WAG Director & CEO

Vice-Chair Members-at-Large Jeff Baigrie, Hennie Corrin Partner, Pitblado Law Herbert Enns, Professor of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Past-Chair and Director, CISCO Innovation Centre, Alex Robinson, University of Winnipeg Business Development Manager, Fred Ford, President/Board Chair, Graham Construction Manitoba Inuit Association

Chair, Building Curwin Friesen, CEO, Friesens Corporation Kevin Donnelly, Senior Vice-President & General Naomi Levine, Lawyer Manager, MTS Centre, True North Sports & Entertainment Ltd. Dwight MacAulay, Chief of Protocol, Government of Manitoba

Chair, Development Lisa Meeches, Executive Producer, Scott McCulloch Manito Ahbee Festival Ovide Mercredi Chair, Finance & Audit Hans Andersen, WAG Foundation Inc. Senior Manager-Audit and Assurance Appointment Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Tom Carson, Senior Fellow

Chair, Governance Province of Manitoba and Nominating Appointment Alex Robinson, Business Manju Lodha, Artist, Creative Writer, Development Manager, Multicultural/Multifaith Educator and Graham Construction Learner

Chair, Human Resources Valerie Shantz, Director, Integrated and Strategic Planning, University of Tom Carson, Senior Fellow Manitoba

President, The Volunteer City of Winnipeg Appointment Associates of the Winnipeg Art Gallery Councillor Jason Schreyer, Elmwood & East Kildonan Diane Biehl

Chair, Works of Art Doneta Brotchie, FUNdamentals Creative Ventures

8 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY WAG Foundation

Contributing almost $2 million over the WAG Foundation past 28 years, the Winnipeg Art Gallery President Richard L. Yaffe, Partner, Aikins, Foundation continues to play an MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP integral part in the life of the Gallery. Vice-President / Treasurer / Chair, Finance Committee Our mandate is to raise and grow funds to benefit the Al Babiuk, President and Chief WAG. Through its financial support, the WAG Foundation Executive Officer, Loewen helps the Gallery expand its permanent collection with acquisitions such as those listed on the following pages; Secretary offer magnificent exhibitions such as Masterworks from the José Koes Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Olympus: The Greco-Roman Chair, Nominating Committee / Collections of Berlin; and build enduring capital projects. Chair, Audit Committee

The 2014/15 year saw quality exhibitions and events at the Carol Stockwell, Associate Partner, Tax, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP WAG. From 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. to Dalí Up Close and Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Chair, Investment Committee from the 2014 Sobey Art Award to “The Walrus Talks Michael F. B. Nesbitt, Chairman, Arctic,” the WAG is—perhaps more than ever before—a Montrose Mortgage Corp. Ltd. meeting place for people who love art and the arts. Volunteer Committee Representative Richard L. Yaffe | Diane Biehl President, WAG Foundation Alyson Bulloch

Lila Goodspeed

Bill Glanville

Members-at-Large Tom Carson

Ken Cooper

Robert Darling

Marvin Tiller

Faye Warren

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 9 Staff

Directorate Nicole Fletcher, Education Daniel Theriault, School Programs Administrative Assistant* Facilitator*-Bilingual Stephen Borys, Director & CEO (to November 2014) (from September 2014) Maxine Bock, Executive Assistant Erika Hanneson, Education Diane Lavoie, School Programs Administrative Assistant Facilitator*-Bilingual Curatorial (from November 2014 to March 2015) (from October 2014)

Helen Delacretaz, Chief Curator Marybeth Dirks, Education Marc Beaudry, School Programs and Curator of Decorative Art Administrative Assistant Facilitator*-Bilingual and Fine Art (to September 2014) (from March 2015) (from February 2015)

Seema Hollenberg, Head of Kenlyn Collins, Librarian, Marylou Driedger, School Programs Curatorial (from March 2015) Clara Lander Library Facilitator* (from September 2014)

Andrew Kear, Curator of Deborah Riley, School Programs Anne Hanley, Studio Programs Historical Canadian Art Facilitator* Assistant*

Darlene Coward Wight, Rhonda Kennedy Rogers, Crystal Nykoluk, Studio Programs Curator of Inuit Art School Programs Facilitator* Technician*

Paul Butler, Curator of Angeliki Bogiatji, School Programs Craig Love, Studio Programs Contemporary Art Facilitator* Technician* (to April 2014) (to August 2014) Lisa Bedard, School Programs Lisa Jorgenson, Studio Programs Ellen Plouffe, Administrative Facilitator*-Bilingual Technician* (from May 2014) Assistant, Curatorial and (to May 2014) Museum Services Valerie Dewson, Studio Programs Dallas Clement, School Programs Receptionist* Facilitator*-Bilingual (to July 2014) Education Michael Mogatas, Studio Programs Anna Wiebe, Head of Education Mira Le-Ba, School Programs Receptionist* (to November 2014) Facilitator*-Bilingual (to August 2014) Rachel Baerg, Head of Education Museum Services (from December 2014) Nola Le-Ba, School Programs Helen Delacretaz, Head of Museum Facilitator*-Bilingual Services (to September 2014) Michael Boss, Art Educator, (from September 2014) Studio Programs (to June 2014) Seema Hollenberg, Head of Lisa Jorgenson, School Programs Curatorial (from March 2015) Diane Lafournaise, Studio Manager Facilitator* (from October 2014) Karen Kisiow, Registrar Tiffany Humble, School Programs Aline Frechette, Youth Programs Facilitator* Lisa Quirion, Collections Manager* Coordinator-French (to January 2015) Sierra MacTavish, Birthday Party Rachel Baerg, Youth Program Host* (from September 2014) Nicole Fletcher, Collections Coordinator-English Manager * (from February 2015) (to November 2014) Genevieve Riou, School Programs Facilitator*-Bilingual Dan Donaldson, Gallery Technician, Nicole Fletcher, Youth Program (from September 2014) Vaults Coordinator-English (from November 2014 to January 2015) Annick Svistovski, School Joy Stewart, Matting & Framing* Programs Facilitator*-Bilingual Allison Moore, Youth Program (from September 2014) Radovan Radulovic, Head Coordinator-English Conservator (from March 2015)

10 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Carey Archibald, Exhibition Hue Tuyet Tang, Special Events* Retail Operations Designer/Head Installations Manager of Retail Alana Trachenko, Special Events* Sherri Van Went, Operations Steve Colley, Lead Technician Noelle Warkentin, Special Events* Gallery Shop Vitaliy Yatsevych, Gallery Anna Robinson, Assistant Technician, Installations Jordan Waters, Special Events* Front Desk Kevin Friedrich, Gallery Technician, Eric Des Marais, Installations* Marketing and Communications Gloria Lord, Sales Assistant* Debra Fehr, Manager, Gallery Ken Gregory, Communications & Marketing Tanya Reid, Sales Assistant* Technician, Installations* (to April 2014) (from February 2015) Samantha Jarmasz, Sales Catherine Maksymiuk, Manager, Assistant* (to July 2014) Media & Marketing Development and Membership (from June 2014) Barbara Kirkland, Sales Assistant* Judy Slivinski, Director of Development Tammy Sawatzky, Public Relations Freya Perron, Sales Assistant* Coordinator Kris Olafson, Development Kelsey Funk, Sales Assistant* Coordinator Lisa Friesen, Head Designer (on maternity leave) Brigitte Plouffe, Sales Assistant* Cathy Collins, Grants Officer Mike Carroll, Designer Melanie Polk, Sales Assistant* Chantelle Babalola, Database Jacqui Usiskin, Sales Assistant* Administrator* Human Resources (to December 2014) (until January 2015) Mike Malyk, Manager of Human Lisa Bedard, Sales Assistant* Eleonore Heinrichs, Database Resources (to May 2014) Administrator* (from January 2015) Scott Crompton, Sales Assistant* Finance and Administration (from August 2014) Elizabeth Wiens, Development Bill Elliott, Deputy Director Associate Christina Prokopchuk, Sales Hugh Hansen, Accounting Manager Assistant* (from August 2014) Doren Roberts, Manager of Events & Rentals Jayne Colter, Accounting Associate Alison James, Sales Assistant* (from October 2014) Mandy Hyatt, Events & Rentals Elaine Jasson, Accounting Assistant Associate James Gordon, Lead A/V Technician Volunteer Committee Secretary Asherah Bock, Special Events* & Network Administrator* Kathy Kushpel* Mike Nosol, Special Events* Derek Elaschuk, A/V Technician* Capital Campaign Jenna Wiklund, Special Events* Warren McNeil, A/V Technician* Katarina Kupca, Campaign Director Jessica Holl, Special Events* Ian Phillips, A/V Technician* (from September 2014)

Shannon Kristinnson, Special James Jansen, A/V Technician* Angela Heck, Campaign Writer/ Events* Researcher (from July 2014) Tom Kowalsky, A/V Technician* Krystle Meixner, Special Events* Rhonda Kennedy Rogers, Evan Milejszo, A/V Technician* Campaign/Development Officer Heather Mondor, Special Events* (from May 2014) Peter Lohre, Chief Engineer

*Indicates part-time

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 11 The Volunteer Associates

Since 1948 the Volunteer Associates of the Winnipeg Art Gallery (VA) have been active in fundraising, education, and general support of the WAG. In 2014/15 the VA supported the Through the Eyes of a Child exhibition, the Clara Lander Library, and the WAG Foundation.

Two highlights stand out from the past year. The for Japan and South Korea, the Canadian Arctic, and first, the 8th Annual Home Tour held in September, a new tour to the European Christmas markets! was a tremendous success. Chaired by VA member José Koes, five modern homes were chosen in the The Stamp Society, chaired by David Dawes, neighborhoods of Crescentwood, River Heights, and holds an annual stamp sale in April. A generous Tuxedo. All designed by local architects, the Home donation is made from the Society to the VA from Tour experience was enhanced by the presence the sale proceeds. The VA very much appreciates of the architects who explained how the homes all the work this organization does to make the were created. Forty-two volunteers staffed the sale a success. homes and 478 Winnipeggers participated in the Art education is important to the VA. Many of our tour, raising a total of $16,750. We are very grateful members also belong to “study groups” that meet to the homeowners who opened their doors and regularly in the Gallery lecture hall to present shared many of the features of their residences to papers on artists, architects, and artisans from the visitors. around the world.

A second highlight was our travel tour. VA member In the fall, the VA held a strategic planning session Sherry Glanville hosted a tour of the Himalayan focusing on the future. Energizing sessions, held Mountain Kingdoms of Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. with the VA executive and senior Gallery staff, There were 19 participants, and the tour took place gave us new ideas and new ways of doing projects from late October into November. The fascinating that specifically include WAG staff. We look forward and exotic destinations provided the participants a to many more years of supporting and contributing chance to see the region’s unique cultures and art, to the WAG, and continuing to learn about the world and meet the locals. A total of $4,750 was raised and of art. donated to the WAG. Future trips are being planned

Diane Biehl | President, Volunteer Associates of the Winnipeg Art Gallery

12 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY The young artists represented in

Through the Eyes of a Child come to the WAG from all areas of the city and beyond to exercise their creativity.

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 13 Director & CEO Message The Inuit Art Centre will include a visible vault showcasing more than 7,500 carvings.

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Inuit Art Centre

The WAG continues to develop It will showcase the WAG’s collection of more than 13,000 Inuit artworks. It will be an innovative the Inuit Art Centre (IAC), a programming hub that celebrates, honours, and state-of-the-art building and promotes Inuit art and Indigenous culture through exhibitions, education, and artmaking. Using art as programming hub to be situated a vehicle, the Centre’s programming will engage at St. Mary Avenue and Memorial youth and enhance respect of the Arctic, its people, and our collective history. The new facility will Boulevard, adjacent to the also house the WAG’s nationally recognized Studio existing WAG building. Art and Learning programs, and provide expanded opportunities for students of all ages.

This year saw significant progress in developing The IAC will act as a bridge to increased dialogue, exciting new partnerships, particularly in Canada’s transformation, and understanding between cultures North. The project is already inspiring new and communities, creating opportunities that enrich programming that is building bridges between the lives of Canadians. northern and southern communities. The Building The WAG has been warmly welcomed and The IAC will be located adjacent to the WAG and supported in this initiative by Arctic stakeholders connect to the main building by bridges on all as it will raise the profile of Inuit and Nunavut levels, placing Inuit art within the larger context of communities, leading to greater tourism and Canadian and international art. Strongly influenced economic development across the North. It will by the landscape of the North, the four-level, also open new markets to Inuit arts. 40,000-square-foot centre will include a visible Momentum continues with an increase in support vault to showcase the WAG’s more than 7,500 from the many corporations, groups, and individuals carvings, and the largest gallery space devoted to who believe in this project and understand the Inuit art in North America. incredible impact the IAC will have, not only in Manitoba but throughout Canada and internationally. Programming and Partnerships The WAG has also benefitted from the extraordinary This year saw increased media attention in the work and leadership of the dedicated volunteers North and across Canada. The IAC was featured who are championing this game-changing project. in the Globe and Mail for its architecture and focus on Indigenous perspectives. Significant media The Concept coverage of the project and its potential impact also The IAC is envisioned to be very much a centre— accompanied TD Bank Group’s announcement of a a gallery, museum, research, and cultural locus $500,000 gift to the IAC project in March 2015. all in one space. As work to develop the IAC continues, many new partnerships with Inuit and cultural organizations throughout the North are already taking shape. These partnerships drive the project.

16 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Interior rendering of IAC Ceremony Gallery.

Dr. Stephen Borys speaks about the IAC at 10x20x20.

Artist Leo Napayok (Rankin Inlet) from one of Dr. Stephen Borys’ trips to the Arctic.

A young visitor enjoys the WAG’s celebrated Inuit art collection.

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 17 Inuit Art Centre

Achievements Leadership Key accomplishments in 2014/2015 include: The campaign team is composed of exceptional community volunteers who are lending their • Development of programming partnerships leadership, generosity, and community with Inuit organizations in Manitoba and in the experience to the IAC. North that align with the vision for the Centre.

• Establishment of a critical path for the Capital Campaign Executive successful realization of the project. Barry Rempel, Chair

• Enhancements to the campaign team Doneta A. Brotchie through increased volunteer leadership Lila Goodspeed and staff support. John C. MacAulay • Completion of a northern arts needs assessment study. Richard L. Yaffe Ernest Cholakis • Completion of a northern strategy for engagement. Arthur Mauro, Honorary Chair

• Positive consultations with government, cultural, and Inuit organizations aimed at developing partnerships in support of the IAC.

• Significant progress made in securing leadership gifts.

WAG programming continues to reflect the North through exhibitions, notably Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15, Baker Lake Carvings, the commissioned mural Yesterday and Today by Elisapee Ishulutag, and the display at Assiniboine Park Zoo’s Journey to Churchill exhibit; events such as the “Walrus Talks Arctic;” and activities for all ages, including northern- focused puppet and fashion shows.

above: Nelson Takkiruq. Double Shaman Drum Dancer, 1989. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gift of Dr. Harry Winrob; Joseph Pootoogook. Caribou, 1958. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Acquired with assistance from Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Ayre; opposite: Luke Anguhadluq. Drum Dance, 1970. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gift of George Swinton in honour of Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt on the 18 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The Inuit Art Centre will act as a bridge to increased dialogue, transformation, and understanding between cultures and communities.

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 19 Exhibition Highlights

From Surrealist master Salvador and secured from private collectors in New York and Los Angeles, as well as major collecting Dalí to Canada’s first Indigenous institutions in the United States, such as the artist collective, and Sobey Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Haggerty Museum of Art, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. Award finalists to Baker Lake Exhibition highlights included three well-known carvers, this year’s diverse Dalí canvases: Remorse / Sphinx Embedded in the Sand (1931) from his Surrealist period, the classically exhibitions appealed to audiences inspired The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949) that of all ages and interests. initiated the so-called “Nuclear Mysticism” period of Dalí’s career, and The Vision of Hell (1962), a religious masterpiece that had only been displayed Canada’s first Indigenous artist collective, the in public once before being shown in Winnipeg. Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporated, An exhibition catalogue was produced with was a ground-breaking cultural and political entity contributions by Kear and internationally-renowned that self-organized in Winnipeg in the 1970s to Dalí scholar Dr. Elliott King. demand recognition. The work of Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Janvier, Carl Ray, and Joseph Sanchez challenge Gallery provided audiences with access to an stereotypes of Indigenous people. 7: Professional uncompromising selection of 75 exceptional Native Indian Artists Inc., which toured to several paintings spanning four centuries of European national venues, was organized by the MacKenzie and Canadian art. These works, originally amassed Art Gallery. The exhibition drew from both private by the Canadian-born businessman, media mogul, and public art collections, and brought together and confidant of the rich and famous Sir William 84 paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Focusing Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), constitute exclusively on that crucial decade when the seven one of North America’s unparalleled collections. artists were active as a group—beginning with The works of Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua their initial meetings in 1970–71 until their unofficial Reynolds, and George Romney—heavyweights dissolution in the late 1970s—the exhibition of British portraiture—were well represented, considered the group’s collective artistic impact, as were signature canvases by modern dynamos as well as each member’s stylistic innovations. J. M. W. Turner, James Tissot, Augustus John, and several choice Impressionist works. If one This past year the WAG mounted Dalí Up Close, the had to pick the exhibition standouts, they would first survey in Manitoba of work by the Surrealist have to be Hotel Bedroom, a captivating and master Salvador Dalí. It comprised 68 objects: extremely rare example of Lucian Freud’s early paintings, watercolours, drawings, jewellery, and work, and three masterworks by Salvador Dalí, sculpture, as well as the celebrated photographs including the four-metre high Santiago El Grande, produced with Philippe Halsman. Curated by the exhibition’s unquestionable centrepiece. Andrew Kear, loans were extensively researched

Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier. Library (detail), 2014. 22 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Collection of the artists. For the first time in Western Canada, the prestigious Sobey Art Award was presented at WAG.

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 23 Exhibition Highlights

The year 2014 saw the Sobey Art Award come spring, these nine-by-seven-foot works use ink and to Winnipeg. Created in 2002 by the Sobey Art acrylic on canvas, exercising landscape tropes to Foundation, and facilitated by the Art Gallery of compose immense and surreal human heads that Nova Scotia, the award represents this country’s seem to float in ambiguous space. Unmoored from pre-eminent distinction for contemporary Canadian any depiction of the body, their scale demands a art. The annual prize is given to an artist age 40 or paradoxical physical encounter with the viewer, under who has exhibited in a public or commercial one that parallels the artist’s physical engagement art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. with both medium and ground in creating them. The jury for this year’s award included Paul Butler, Jordan Strom, Marie-Eve Beaupré, and Pan Wendt. Showcasing the WAG’s pre-eminent contemporary The WAG played host to the exhibition of work by the Inuit art collection, 2014/15 saw several outstanding shortlist finalists, each representing a distinct region Inuit art exhibitions. Inuit Fantastic Art featured in Canada: Evan Lee (West Coast), Chris Curreri works by several Baker Lake and Cape Dorset (Ontario), Nadia Myre (Quebec), Graeme Patterson artists. In 1967 American anthropologist Dr. Nelson (Atlantic), and Winnipeg’s own Michael Dumontier Graburn sponsored a competition in Puvirnituq in and Neil Farber (Prairies and the North). This was response to carvers who complained that buyers the first time the exhibition and award gala were only wanted them to create realistic subjects. The staged west of Ontario. This year’s winner, Nadia competition encouraged carvers to create works Myre, was awarded the $50,000 prize, and each of of originality and imagination independent of the the four shortlisted runners-up received $10,000. usual commercial production, and cash prizes were offered. The 2002 Sobey Art Award winner, Brian Jungen, showcased Vienna in Eckhardt Hall from October In 1972 George Swinton, teacher at the University to January 2015. The third in a series of whale of Manitoba School of Art, organized an exhibition sculptures by the artist since 2000, the artwork called Eskimo Fantastic Art at the University’s makes a statement about cultural hybridity and gallery. The title became associated thereafter institutional displays of marine life in aquariums with surreal, bizarre artworks. Curated by Darlene and natural history museums. He ingeniously Coward Wight, Inuit Fantastic Art also included repurposes found objects, disassembling and tupilaqs from East Greenland. Tupilaqs were reassembling them into spectacular sculptures that harmful spirits created by a shaman out of bones often reference Indigenous traditions and culture. and skin, brought to life through magic and sent In Vienna, Jungen transformed hundreds of common to kill one’s enemy. white plastic patio chairs found in discount stores Baker Lake Carvings featured the works of 12 around the world into a majestic whale skeleton. artists from the region whose careers span the The exhibition is part of the ongoing NGC@WAG last five decades, the earliest piece from 1960 and partnership with the National Gallery of Canada. the most recent from 2002. Solitary figures and

Wanda Koop’s VIEW from HERE, curated by WAG family groups, along with hunting and domestic Director & CEO Dr. Stephen Borys, both affirmed activities, dominated the themes. The carvings and disrupted two quite different genres: landscape were bold in their sculptural gestures, minimal and portraiture. Installed in Eckhardt Hall in early in form, compact, unpolished, and filled with the images and stories of the people and the land.

opposite: Paul Toolooktook. Two Men Wrestling, c. 1960–1969. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Twomey Collection, with appreciation to 26 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY the Province of Manitoba and Government of Canada. My trips to the Arctic are highlighted by my visits with the artists. — Dr. Stephen Borys JoshuaDirector Reynolds. & Mrs. CEO Thrale Message and Her Daughter Hester (Queeney) (detail), 1781. Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Gift of Lord Beaverbrook; George Romney. Charles Lennox, later 4th Duke of Richmond, Duke of Lennox and of Aubigny, 1776-1777. Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Collection of the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation.

5,000 school children explored the Dalí and Beaverbrook shows, and Twitter surpassed 30,000 followers during the exhibitions.

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Curated by Dr. Stephen Borys, he comments: Publications 2014/15 “My trips to the Arctic are highlighted by my visits Publications present the research and scholarship with the artists, spending time in their homes and surrounding exhibitions and collections. studios, and being close to their work. Returning to Winnipeg, I often find myself in the WAG’s Inuit The documentation of WAG exhibitions in art vaults seeking out pieces by the artists I have catalogues is an important aspect of the Gallery’s just met.” mandate, extending the work of artists and scholars to wider audiences. In February the WAG partnered with the Manitoba Puppet Theatre to present The Legend of Kiviuq. Dalí Up Close Kiviuq is a popular Inuit hero whose many s/c 44 pages, full colour adventures are known across the Arctic. The Curated by: Andrew Kear Manitoba Puppet Theatre production received Essays by: Elliott H. King, Andrew Kear, rave reviews throughout Canada and around the Joe Nuzzolo world, and returned after a 25-year hiatus with a special run at the WAG. Puppet shows in English and French, along with an exhibition of the puppets when not in use, were open to the public as well as school groups. The puppet shows were so popular with school groups that more performances were added to meet the demand.

In March the WAG hosted the Canadian homecoming of Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15. Celebrating Nunavut’s 15th anniversary as a territory, Arctic Adaptations is a team-based project initiated and led by Toronto architectural firm Lateral Office. The exhibition surveys a century of Arctic architecture and showcases innovative designs rooted in the region’s distinct land, climate, and culture. First presented as Canada’s official Dalí Up Close documents Winnipeg’s first exhibition exhibition at the prestigious 2014 Venice Biennale of the Catalan Surrealist Salvador Dalí. The richly in Architecture, where it was honoured with a illustrated, full-colour, 44-page publication reveals Special Mention, the show features interactive the exhibition’s diverse range of contents, including architectural models, photographs, topographical paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and maps, and specially commissioned sculpture by jewellery. Dalí Up Close features engaging essays Inuit carvers. Following the exhibition in Winnipeg, by Andrew Kear, the exhibition curator and WAG the WAG and Lateral Office are touring Arctic Curator of Historical Canadian Art; Joe Nuzzolo, Adaptations to Whitehorse, Vancouver, and Calgary, President of the Salvador Dalí Society; and the with additional venues to be added in 2016-2017. internationally renowned scholar of Dalí’s late period, Dr. Elliott H. King.

30 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY WAG presented and toured Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15, which won Canada its first ever prize at the Venice Biennale in Architecture.

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32 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY WAG displayed newly commissioned mural Yesterday and Today by Elisapee Ishulutaq for the first time. Exhibitions 2014/2015

Collection on View: Collection on View: Flash Photography Festival Highlights of Inuit Sculpture Kim Adams Organized by ongoing May 20–August 21, 2014 Flash Photographic Festival September 30– Collection on View: Collection on View: November 2, 2014 European Renaissance and Jonathan Jones Baroque Art: 1500–1700 May 22,–August 3, 2014 Brian Jungen: ongoing Vienna Inuit Fantastic Art NGC@WAG, Organized by the Collection on View: May 31–October 12, 2014 National Gallery of Canada The Academic Tradition in October 4, 2014– Europe & Canada, 1700–1900 Patrick Boyce Memorial January 18, 2015 ongoing July 4–July 16, 2014 2014 Sobey Art Awards Inuit Art at SKYBOX Organized by the Journey to Churchill University of Manitoba, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia ongoing Dept. of Architecture November 1, 2014– and The Forks January 18, 2015 Collection on View: July 4–October 21, 2014 The Modernist Tradition Baker Lake Carvings 1900–1950 MAWA: November 1, 2014– September 27, 2013– Celebrating 30 Years of March 1, 2015 October 12, 2014 Women’s Art July 23–September 26, 2014 Collection on View: Lynne Cohen: Between Louis Bakó Something and Nothing Seeing Rights and Liberties: November 8, 2014– NGC@WAG, Organized by the Celebrating the Canadian March 8, 2015 National Gallery of Canada Museum for Human Rights April 12–August 17, 2014 August 9–October 5, 2014 The Legend of Kiviuq February 4–February 17, 2015 Micah Lexier: Bringing Shadow to Light: This, That, Those Gifts from a Manitoba L. L. FitzGerald’s Impressionist April 26–August 3, 2014 Collection Decade, 1910–1920 August 16–October 12, 2014 February 14–June 7, 2015 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. Dalí Up Close Elisapee Ishulutaq Organized by the September 27, 2014– February 14–May 31, 2015 MacKenzie Art Gallery February 22, 2015 Wanda Koop: May 9–September 1, 2014 Masterworks from the VIEW from HERE Collection on View: Beaverbrook Art Gallery February 21–June 28, 2015 Cathy Busby Organized by the Arctic Adaptations: May 4–June 13, 2014 Beaverbrook Art Gallery September 27, 2014– Nunavut at 15 The Winnipeg Sketch Club: February 22, 2015 Organized by Lateral Office A Look Back March 3–May 3, 2015 May 17–August 3, 2014 Through the Eyes of a Child March 28–May 10, 2015

34 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY The Legend of Kiviuq returned to the WAG for the first time in 25 years, and was so popular more performances were added.

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 35 Acquistions

Elisapee Ishulutaq. Yesterday and Today

Inuit Art Gyta Inuksaq Untitled (Juggling Games), 2014 Canadian (Kugaaruk), 20th century graphite, coloured pencil on paper, Sabina Qunqnirq Anaittuq Untitled (Bear and Bird), 1990 45.5 x 60.8 cm Canadian (Kugaaruk), 1941–c. 1997 ivory on bone, 3.2 x 10 x 3 cm 2015-7 Untitled (Seal and Birds), c. 1990 2014-108.1 to 3 Untitled (Preparing to Travel ivory on whale bone, Untitled (Ring), 1990 in a Boat), 2014 6.5 x 9.8 x 7.5 cm ivory on bone, 1.1 x 7 x 4.8 cm graphite, coloured pencil on paper, Gift of Brian P. Drobot, Victoria Gifts of Brian P. Drobot, Victoria 45.5 x 60.8 cm 2014-110.1 to 6 2014-109 2015-8 Isaci Etidloie Untitled (Man in Kayak), 2014 Canadian (Cape Dorset), 1972–2014 Elisapee Ishulutaq Canadian (Pangnirtung), b. 1925 graphite, coloured pencil on paper, 45.5 x 60.8 cm Modern Day Fishing, 2011 Printer: Studio PM serpentinite stone, antler, 2015-9 28 x 36 x 7.3 cm Elisapee’s Family, 2012 sugar lift etching, chine collé on paper, Untitled (Hamlet Scene), 2014 2014-120.1 and 2 10/12, 121 x 80 cm graphite, coloured pencil on paper, Kellypalik Etidloie Gift of Marnie and Karen Schreiber, 45.5 x 60.8 cm Canadian (Cape Dorset), b. 1966 Vancouver 2015-10 2014-82.1 to 3 Untitled (Plaque – Five Faces), 2014 Untitled (Fishing for Char with serpentinite stone, 21 x 15.5 cm Elisapee Ishulutaq Kakivak), 2014 2014-121 Canadian (Pangnirtung), b. 1925 graphite, coloured pencil on paper, 45.5 x 60.8 cm Goose and Goslings, 2014 Yesterday and Today, 2014 serpentinite stone, oil stick, graphite on Stonehenge 2015-11 12.2 x 18.5 x 7.1 cm paper, 127 x 600 cm Untitled (Building an Iglu), 2014 Acquired with funds from the Estate Acquired with funds from the graphite, coloured pencil on paper, of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, Department of Culture & Heritage, 45.5 x 60.8 cm Government of Nunavut, and the funds administered by The Winnipeg 2015-12 Foundation Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, 2014-122 funds administered by The Winnipeg Untitled (Bear Attack), 2014 Foundation graphite, coloured pencil on paper, Danny Etoangat 2015-4 45.5 x 60.8 cm Canadian (Pangnirtung), 20th century Elisapee Ishulutaq Gifts of the artist, Pangnirtung Untitled (Bird), 1990 2015-13 Canadian (Pangnirtung), b. 1925 ivory on horn, 2.8 x 4.8 x 0.8 cm 2014-107 Untitled (Summer Scene with Elisapee Ishulutaq Two Humiit), 2014 Canadian (Pangnirtung), b. 1925 Alice Inkuksaq graphite, coloured pencil on paper, Weaver: Kawtysie Kakee 45.5 x 61 cm Canadian (Kugaaruk), 20th century Playing with Bird Mask, n.d. Untitled (Three Birds), 1990 2015-5 wool yarn, 4/10, 46.5 x 61 cm ivory on bone, 4 x 7.6 x 4.5 cm Untitled (Making Tools Outside 2015-14 2014-113.1 to 4 Tupiq in Summer), 2014 Mother and Child in Iglu, 1989–1990 graphite, coloured pencil on paper, wool yarn, 12/20, 77.5 x 85.5 cm 45.5 x 60.8 cm Acquired with funds from the sale of 2015-6 prints donated by Grace Eiko Thomson, Vancouver 2015-15

36 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Simon Kadlutsiak Simon Ooleekatelik Freezing Weather, 2013 Canadian (Hall Beach), b. 1962 Canadian (Taloyoak), b. 1942 graphite, coloured pencil on paper, Untitled (Large Walrus on Rock), Untitled (Man with Heart), 2014 27.9 x 35.5 cm 1990 serpentinite stone, wood, sinew, 2014-85 ivory, 2.3 x 6.7 x 3.3 cm 29 x 18.5 x 11.5 cm People Waiting for Other People to Gift of Brian P. Drobot, Victoria Acquired with funds from the Estate Come Before the Game to Begin, 2014-103 of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, 2010 funds administered by The Winnipeg graphite, coloured pencil on paper, Silas Kayakjuak Foundation 2014-123.1 to 3 Canadian (Hall Beach), b. 1956 21.3 x 27.9 cm Acquired with funds from the Estate Knife Spirit, 2014 Jessie Oonark of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, ivory, 8 x 1.6 cm (l x w) Canadian (Baker Lake), 1906–1985 funds administered by The Winnipeg Untitled, c. 1975 Gift of Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad, Foundation 2014-86 Kensington, in memory of George stroud, felt, embroidery floss, thread, Swinton 111.8 x 142.2 cm Pitaloosie Saila 2015-3 Gift of the Estate Kathleen Orea Canadian (Cape Dorset), b. 1942 Sweeney, Madison, Misconsin. Printmaker: Timothy Ottochie Drum Dancer, 2014 2014-117 ivory, 5.5 x 3 x 4.6 cm Ptarmigans, 1973 Gift of Bernadette Driscoll Engelstad, Enukpauyak Pameolik stonecut on paper, 5/50, Kensington, in memory of Helen Kalvak, Canadian (Coral Harbour), 1912–? 62.3 x 42.7 cm Elsie Nilgak, and Rene Taipana Qulliq on Stand with Pots, 1965 Gift of Anita Wolfe, Victoria 2015-2 grey serpentinite stone, antler, sinew, 2014-102 ivory, 13 x 15 x 10.7 cm Marius Kridluar Peter Salomonie Canadian (Repulse Bay), b. 1949 Gift of Kayla Coodin, Winnipeg Canadian (Iqaluit), b. 1940 2014-118 Untitled (Two Seals), 1990 Untitled (Beluga Whale on Rock), ivory on horn, 2 x 5 x 2.6 cm Jamasie Padluq Pitseolak 1990 2014-116 Canadian (Cape Dorset), b. 1968 ivory, 1.2 x 4 x 1.2 cm Printer: Studio PM 2014-104 Maria Kukkuvak Canadian (Kugaaruk), 20th century The Student, 2010 Untitled (Two Birds Facing), 1990 dry point etching, watercolour on ivory on bone, 1.9 x 5.4 x 2 cm Untitled (Seal), 1991 paper, 11/12, 79 x 112 cm ivory on stone, 2.5 x 4 x 3 cm 2014-105 2014-80 2014-114 Untitled (Walrus), 1990 The Day After, 2010 ivory on antler, 2 x 3.5 x 1.9 cm Leah Makkituq dry point etching, watercolour 2014-106 Canadian (Kugaaruk), 1940–? on paper, 11/15, 49.5 x 38 cm Untitled (Man with Harpoon), 1991 Gift of Marnie and Karen Schreiber, Unidentified Artist ivory, 6 x 8.8 x 3.6 cm Vancouver Canadian (unknown community), 2014-111.1 to 3 2014-81 20th Century Untitled (Narwhal), c. 1990 Untitled (Two Seals on Rock), 1990 Itee Pootoogook ivory, 2.1 x 5 x 2.5 cm ivory, 3 x 4 x 2.5 cm Canadian (Cape Dorset), 1951–2014 Gifts of Brian P. Drobot, Victoria Gifts of Brian P. Drobot, Victoria Carrying a Baby on her Back 2014-115.1 and 2 2014-112 with a Caribou Skin, 2009 coloured pencil on paper, Idris Moss-Davies Unidentified Artist 65 x 49.8 cm Canadian (unknown community), Canadian (Qikiqtarjuaq/Ottawa/ 20th Century Toronto), b. 1974 2014-83 Kayak, c. 1908–1924 Untitled (Mother and Child), 2014 Hotel, 2013 sealskin, sinew, whale bone, stone, ivory, horn, graphite, coloured pencil on paper, 177 x 17.7 cm (l x w) 29.1 x 17.5 x 7.4 cm 49.9 x 64.9 cm Gift of the Eby Family, Winnipeg, in 2014-119.1 to 4 2014-84 memory of George and Emily Eby 2015-1

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Cathy Busby. We Are Sorry

Paintings, Sculpture, Cathy Busby Untitled, 2009 Canadian, b. 1958 oil on board, 101.6 x 81.3 cm Installation, and We Are Sorry, 2010 Gifts of the artist, Toronto Mixed Media dye-sublimation lettering on Poly 2014-152 Duck, 610 x 1402 cm Jay Isaac Caven Atkins Gift of the artist, Halifax Canadian, b. 1975 Canadian, 1907–2000 2014-49.1 and 2 Untitled, 2009 Night Scene, Winnipeg, 1931 Phyllis Green oil, foil on canvas, 243.7 x 162.5 cm tempera on board on paper, American, b. 1950 14.3 x 11.5 cm Acquired with funds from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, 2014-132 Boob Tree, 1975 yarn, wood, 109.2 x 55.9 x 50.8 cm funds administered by The Winnipeg Beausejour Landscape with Acquired with funds from the Estate Foundation, and with funds from the Female Labourers, 1931 of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition watercolour, graphite, ink on board, funds administered by The Winnipeg Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée 22.7 x 26 cm Foundation avec l’aide du programme d’aide aux 2014-128 acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du 2014-135 Canada East Kildonan, Manitoba, 1934 Robert Hedrick 2014-153 watercolour on paper, Canadian, b. 1930 Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline 25.5 x 35.5 cm Marine Venus No. 3, c. 1963 Canadian, b. 1980 2014-137 marble dust, white cement, 38.1 x 38.1 Untitled, 2013 x 152.4 cm H. Eric Bergman oil on canvas, 152.4 x 121.9 cm Gift of the artist, Toronto Canadian (born in Germany), 1893–1958 Gift of the artist, Winnipeg 2014-148 Lake Scene, n.d. 2014-50 watercolour on paper, Jay Isaac DST RZ FLD, 2013 24.8 x 29.3 cm Canadian, b. 1975 oil on canvas, 152.4 x 121.9 cm 2014-142 Untitled, 2003 Acquired with funds from the Estate oil on canvas, 76.1 x 61 x 5.5 cm of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, Bertram Brooker 2014-149 funds administered by The Winnipeg Canadian (born in England), 1888–1955 Foundation, and with funds from the Abstract Landscape, c. 1945 Untitled, 2011 Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition oil on board, 29 x 38 marker on paper, 61.6 x 45.5 cm Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée Gifts of Robert and Margaret Hucal, 2014-151 avec l’aide du programme d’aide aux Winnipeg acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Untitled, 2008 2014-143 Canada oil on Davey Board, 61.6 x 45.5 cm 2014-51 2014-150

38 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY William Kurelek. The Dream of Michael Negrich

Marielouise Kreyes Giacomo Manzù Esther Warkov Canadian (born in Germany), 1925–1983 Italian, 1908–1991 Canadian, b. 1941 Untitled, 1979 Seated Cardinal, n.d. Stonewall Lament II, 1973 acrylic on canvas, 112.4 x 137.8 cm bronze, 45.2 x 27 x 27.8 cm oil on canvas, 229 x 208 cm 2014-74 Gift of an anonymous donor Gift of Ronald D. Macdonald, Salem 2015-19 2015-17 Untitled, 1971 acrylic on canvas, 101.6 x 139.7 cm Gordon Eastcott Payne Gifts of Dr. Wilhelm Kreyes, Winnipeg Canadian, 1890–1983 2014-75 Beaver Dam, c. 1924 oil on canvas, 76 x 92 cm William Kurelek Canadian, 1927–1977 Gift of Dr. Stephen and Mrs. Hazel Borys, Winnipeg, in honour of Andrew The Dream of Michael Negrich, 1966 Kear, Curator of Canadian Art, Winnipeg gouache on masonite, 75 x 151 Art Gallery Gift of Ronald D. Macdonald, Salem 2015-16 2015-18 Auguste Rodin Winston Leathers French, 1840–1917 Canadian, 1932–2004 Tête de Danseuse, c. 1880s Departing Spring, 1964 bronze, 11 x 9.5 x 10.8 cm oil on canvas, 61 x 71.1 cm 2015-20 Acquired with funds from the H. Eric Small Torso, c. 1880s Bergman Trust Fund bronze, 9.2 x 7.5 x 10 cm 2014-127 2015-21 Micah Lexier Canadian, b. 1960 Marjorie (Jori) Smith Canadian, 1905–2005 42 Ounces of Silver (One Block) c. 1950 (13,14,15) (Eight Cones), 2003 Untitled (Self-Portrait), cast silver, metal pedestals with oil on board, 9.3 x 11.8 cm acrylic tops, 107.9 x 29.2 x 29.2 cm Gifts of an anonymous donor 2015-22 Gift of the artist, Toronto 2014-154.1 to 21 Auguste Rodin. Tête de Danseuse

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Photographs Prints and Drawings Cathy Busby Caven Atkins Canadian, b. 1958 Canadian, 1907–2000 We Are Sorry (Stephen Harper), Trees in a Park – East Kildonan 2009 (Winnipeg) Manitoba, 1934 inkjet print on bamboo watercolour ink, wash on paper, 25.4 x 30.5 cm paper, 2/5, 111.8 x 162.4 cm 2014-129 2014-124 Powerhouse, Manitoba, North of We Are Sorry (Kevin Rudd), 2008 Winnipeg, 1934 inkjet print on bamboo watercolour ink, sepia on paper, 28.6 x 34.2 cm paper, 1/5, 111.8 x 162.4 cm 2014-130 Acquired with funds from the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor; Housetops and Trees, Winnipeg, 1931 funds administered by the Winnipeg coloured pencil, graphite on paper, Foundation Inc., and with funds from the 22.8 x 30.5 cm Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition 2014-131 Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée André Kertész. avec l’aide du programme d’aide aux Vanessa Harwood 8 Rain at Night, Sherbrooke St (After a acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du night of chess at Brandtner’s), 1933 Canada charcoal on paper, 42.4 x 33 cm 2014-125 Untitled, 1981 2014-133 silver print on paper, 19 x 24.7 cm André Kertész Ninette, Manitoba, 1928 2014-60 American (born in Hungary), 1894–1985 watercolour, graphite on paper, 16 x 20.5 cm Vanessa Harwood 1, 1981 Vanessa Harwood 7, 1981 silver print on paper, 24.7 x 17.4 cm silver print on paper, 24.7 x 17.8 cm 2014-134 2014-53 2014-61 Winnipeg Tenement, 1928 graphite on paper, 17.8 x 12.5 cm Vanessa Harwood 2, 1981 Vanessa Harwood 8, 1981 silver print on paper, 19.7 x 21.7 cm silver print on paper, 24.7 x 17.8 cm 2014-136 2014-54 Gifts of Dr. Stephen Brown, Toronto Untitled (Rooftops), 1932 2014-62 ink, coloured pencil on paper, Vanessa Harwood 3, 1981 11 x 11.7 cm silver print on paper, 19.7 x 24.7 cm Holly King 2014-138 2014-55 Canadian, b. 1958 Fair, 2002 Untitled (Industrial View – Dragline), Vanessa Harwood 4, 1981 (from the Coming into View series) 1943 silver print on paper, chromogenic print on paper, 1/5, 153 ink, watercolour on paper, 19.7 x 22.5 cm x 109.5 cm 21.5 x 28 cm 2014-56 Gift of the artist, Montreal 2014-139 Vanessa Harwood 5, 1981 2014-126 Brokenhead River, Beausejour, silver print on paper, 21.2 x 19.7 cm Ernest P. Mayer Manitoba, 1931 2014-57 Canadian, 20th century charcoal on paper, 24 x 31.4 cm Vanessa Harwood 6, 1981 Fine Line II with Max Dean and 2014-140 silver print on paper, 17.5 x 24.7 cm Dennis Evans, 1977 Farm Houses, 1932 2014-58 silver print on paper, 4/50, charcoal on paper, 24 x 31.4 cm 40 x 22.4 cm Untitled, 1981 2014-141 silver print on paper, 19 x 24.7 cm Gift of William Kirby, Winnipeg 2014-79 Cyril H. Barraud 2014-59 Canadian (born in England), 1877–1965

Entering Ypres at Dawn, c. 1917–1918 etching on paper, 25.8 x 40.5 cm 2014-146

40 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Neil Farber. Red Giant

Evening on the Ypres-Poperinghe Untitled (Self-Portrait ?), c. 1950 Philip Surrey Road near the Asylum, c. 1917–1918 Conté crayon on paper, Canadian, 1910–1990 etching on paper, 32.5 x 51.3 cm 42.7 x 30.8 cm Untitled (Hotel Room), 1947 Gifts of Robert and Margaret Hucal, 2014-64 ink wash on paper, Winnipeg 25.7 x 37.2 cm 1972 2014-147 Untitled, ink on paper, 24.1 x 31.8 cm 2014-144 Max Dean 2014-65 Briseurs de Glace, c. 1953 Canadian (born in England), b. 1949 crayon, ink wash on paper, Retrospect (Study), 1973 28.6 x 19.3 cm Fine Line, 1977 graphite on paper, 58.6 x 44.5 cm graphite on paper, 50 x 65.3 cm Gifts of Robert and Margaret Hucal, 2014-66 2014-76 Winnipeg Study for Cyclist No. 4, 1973 2014-145 Dennis Evans graphite on paper, 57.3 x 55.6 cm Canadian (born in USA), b. 1942 2014-67 Red Field, 1977 Studio Craft Self-Portrait, 1944 deep embossed four-colour print on graphite, gouache on coloured paper, Robert W. Archambeau hand-made paper, 3/9, 17.6 x 12.5 cm Canadian, b. 1933 79.8 x 57.5 cm 2014-68 2014-77 Vase, c. 1998 Untitled (Study for Painting), 1970 stoneware, 17.5 x 14.3 cm (h x odia) Citation, 1977 graphite on paper, 24 x 19.8 cm deep embossed four-colour print on 2014-100 2014-69 hand-made paper, 3/9, Vase, c. 2005 79.8 x 57.5 cm The Singer, 1963 stoneware, 34.3 x 21 cm (h x odia) Gifts of Dennis Evans, Regina aquatint on paper, A/P, 3/12, Gifts of A. Lorne and Kathleen Campbell, 2014-78 38.5 x 53.7 cm Winnipeg 2014-101 Neil Farber 2014-70 Canadian, b. 1975 Coffee House, 1963 Theo Harlander and Susan Red Giant, 2013 aquatint on paper, AP, 2/12, Harlander Brooklin Pottery ink on paper, 111.8 x 381 cm 38.6 x 53.7 cm Canadian, active 1952–1987 Collection of the Winnipeg Art 2014-71 Vase and Bowl (2), c. 1970s Gallery, Gift of the artist. Beer Parlor, 1962 earthenware, vase: 33 x 10 cm 2014-156.1 to 10 aquatint on paper, AP, 3/12, (h x odia); bowls: 2.6 x 11.2 cm (h x odia) Marielouise Kreyes 28 x 38.6 cm Canadian (born in Germany), 1925–1983 2014-72 Gift of Peter Kaellgren, Toronto, in memory of James Alexander Bisback Untitled (Study for Landing Plane), Railroad, 1962 2014-93 2014-94 c. 1971 aquatint on paper, AP, 4/10, 2014-95 graphite, Conté crayon on paper, 36.8 x 27.2 cm 35.8 x 43.5 cm Gifts of Dr. Wilhelm Kreyes, Winnipeg 2014-73 2014-63

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Morrice and Lyman in David Thauberger: Road Trips Yesterday Was Once Tomorrow the Company of Matisse and Other Diversions February 7–June 1, 2015 May 8, 2014–January 5, 2015 April 11, 2014–June 6, 2016 Langer, Eli Lyman, John Goodwin Thauberger, David Canadian, b. 1967 Canadian, 1886–1967 Canadian, b. 1948 Untitled, 1993 Lake Massawippi, 1933 Painter’s Dilemma, 1990 graphite on paper oil on canvas acrylic on canvas 1999-249 G-65-148 G-90-462 ab Untitled, 1993 graphite on paper Musée national des beaux-arts Mendel Art Gallery 1999-253 du Québec Saskatoon, SK Québec City, QC Untitled, 1993 Art Gallery of Windsor graphite on paper McMichael Canadian Art Windsor, ON 1999-258 Collection Mackenzie Art Gallery Kleinburg, ON Untitled, 1993 Regina, SK graphite on paper 1999-289 Alex Colville Glenbow Museum Calgary, AB August 23, 2014–September 7, Plug In Institute of 2015 Confederation Centre of the Arts Contemporary Art Charlotetown, PEI Winnipeg, MB Colville, Alex Canadian, 1920–2013 St. Croix Rider, 1997 Introducing Suzy Lake A Study in Contrast: Sybil acrylic on board November 5, 2014–March 22, Andrews and Gwenda Morgan G-97-164 2015 January 17–April 12, 2015

Art Gallery of Ontario Lake, Suzy MacNab, Iain Canadian (born in U.S.A.), b.1947 British (born in Philippines), 1890–1967 Toronto, ON Impositions, 1977 Le Marché, c. 1951 National Gallery of Canada black and white photograph wood engraving on paper Ottawa, ON on paper G-73-479 G-78-60 a-i Power, Cyril A One Hour (Zero) Conversation English, 1872–1951 with Allan B., 1973 The Tube Staircase, c. 1930 gelatin silver print, felt pen on paper linocut on paper G-83-240 G-88-392

Art Gallery of Ontario Morgan, Gwenda Toronto, ON English, 1908–1991 The Shoemaker and The Tailor, 1957 Sheila Butler: On a wood engraving on paper Continuous Roll – G-89-352 Part 1: Prints Art Gallery of Greater Victoria September 5–October 17, 2014 Victoria, BC Butler, Sheila Canadian (born in U.S.A.), b. 1938 Bedroom, n.d. lithograph on paper G-83-71

Martha Street Studio Winnipeg, MB

42 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Celebrated artist Jaco Ishulutaq had a solo show in the Gallery Shop, and did on-site carving at Family Sunday.

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44 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 30,000 visitors participated in programs and events for adults, youth, and families. Programs and Events

2014/2015 saw exciting growth Dalí and Beaverbrook, with more dates added due to popular demand. and expansion for the Education Department at the WAG. Over The WAG continues to offer vibrant and relevant programming around contemporary art, and 30,000 visitors enriched their creative community collaborations. On February 21, understanding and enjoyment of the WAG joined forces with the West End Cultural Centre to co-host a production of Spell to Bring art through a variety of engaging Lost Creatures Home with artist Shary Boyle and programs and events for adults, songwriter Christine Fellows, attracting a full house of contemporary art lovers. youth, and families. Youth Programs School Programs developed an exciting roster Adult Programs of newly revised programs and tours supporting The year started with the stunning exhibition Manitoba curriculum outcomes, reflecting our 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc., featuring commitment to the 2014 signing of the Memorandum works from one of Canada’s most important artist of Understanding with the Manitoba Department alliances. This show proved to be very popular with of Education. School Programs has experienced inner-city groups and other non-profit organizations. unprecedented growth during 2014, particularly Art Reach, our waived admissions program for during the run of both Dalí and Beaverbrook, which community organizations, enabled 148 people to saw school tours nearly double. Indeed, September view the exhibition in July and August. Special to March attendance increased from 3,739 students lectures, artist talks, guided tours, as well as art- in 2013 to 6,200 in 2014. making and writing workshops gave our visitors a wide range of opportunities to experience the The So Surreal! Family Sunday on November 2 was work of these iconic Canadian artists. one of our largest ever and attracted nearly 1,000 children and their families, who had fun engaging in The exhibitions Dalí Up Close and Masterworks from gallery-wide activities, including moustache-making, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery were extremely popular sketching, storytelling, musical performances, with visitors of all ages. The regular 2pm drop-in and more. tours were well attended, encouraging us to offer an additional tour slot at 1pm. In addition to drop-in Youth Programs participated in many summer tours, visitors enjoyed the free audio tour in English festivals including Kidsfest, Aboriginal Day Live & and French, as well as a series of riveting writing Celebration, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg Fringe workshops and enlightening talks, tours, and videos Theatre Festival, North End Picnic in the Park, offered in the ever-popular Art for Lunch program. ManyFest, and the Canadian Museum for Human A highlight for adult programming was the public Rights’ RightsFest. lecture The Great Late Salvador Dalí, presented by Dr. Elliot King, Art Historian and Dalí specialist. Summer Art Camp ran for seven weeks with a total of 135 happy campers. The WAG enjoyed Flavours of Art, the WAG’s signature dinner and a successful tour exchange program with the tour program, did very well during the run of Manitoba Museum, and the feedback from parents and students was very positive.

46 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY So Surreal! Family Sunday saw nearly 1,000 kids and families engaging in moustache making, sketching, storytelling, and more.

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Studio Programs of the school year. Sign for Art, funded by Boeing WAG Studio is the largest and oldest civic art gallery Canada, is a program for K – Grade 12 students education program in Canada. In 2014 classes and from Manitoba School for the Deaf. workshops were offered to approximately 1,660 Our showcase event, Through the Eyes of a Child, children, teens, and adults with 42 classes for featured work from the Winter 2014 session of adults, and 50 public and 32 sponsored classes public and sponsored children and teen classes. for children and teens. We employ 24 professional This exhibition’s theme was mythology, a tribute to artists to teach in a variety of media: sculpture, the WAG’s exhibition Olympus: The Greco-Roman ceramics, drawing, painting, mixed media, Collections of Berlin. illustration, and animation.

WAG Studio has a long-standing partnership with Clara Lander Library Winnipeg School Division to deliver such programs and WAG Archives as Saturday Morning Art Class, Sunday Afternoon The library recently purchased a new catalogue Art Class, Quantum Middle Years, and Quantum High software program that will provide internal and School Arts, in addition to special art classes. These external access to the catalogue for the first time in classes give students from across the division WAG history. In addition, the catalogue of Manitoba the opportunity to participate in programming free artists’ works in WAG exhibitions (going back to the of charge. WAG’s earliest shows) has now been added to the library’s online catalogue, a project that has taken In fall 2014, professional artists Megan and Jesse two years to complete. Krause worked with 20 students in the Quantum High School Arts program to create the aquatic- This year the WAG Archives Collection was themed art installation Beneath the Surface. moved into a larger space in the basement of the main building alongside a new archives office. The Quantum Middle Years program, a partnership The collection has been re-shelved, rehoused, with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Prairie inventoried, and accession records and databases Theatre Exchange, culminates in a finale every have been updated. year in March in the WAG’s Muriel Richardson Auditorium. This program provides students with an The earliest exhibition catalogues published by opportunity to participate in theatre, dance, or the the WAG were digitized and are accessible in the visual arts, and to showcase their efforts to parents, library. We also hope to provide access to some instructors, and other supporters. Quantum Arts of these catalogues in the MAIN database in the Program is generously sponsored by Children’s forthcoming months. Heritage Fund. The WAG Archives received its five-year In addition to our partnerships with Winnipeg accreditation renewal by the Association for School Division, we also work with Seven Oaks Manitoba Archives, reflecting our commitment to School Division and multimedia artist Curtis public access, stable funding, and sound policies Wiebe to deliver classes to five schools every day and procedures.

48 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 24 professional artists taught 1,660 children, teens, and adults in WAG Studio classes and workshops.

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Brian Jungen. Vienna, 2003. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2004 with the Joy Thomson Fund for the Acquisition of Art by Young Canadian Artists, National Gallery of Canada Foundation

To commemorate the 2014 Sobey Art Award, WAG installed Vienna by the winner of the first Sobey award, Brian Jungen, as part of NGC@WAG.

50 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY 2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 51 Programs and Events

The momentum and excitement In November, the WAG hosted the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s pre-eminent award for generated in the community contemporary artists age 40 or under, the first during WAG’s centennial year time the awards have been held west of Toronto. A host of other events strengthened the WAG’s continued, as special events held connections with a broad community: RBC Oshkii in 2014 brought thousands of Awards 2014 for the Manito Ahbee Festival, Live on the Rooftop, Home Tour 2014, The Collection: guests to the WAG, many of A Fashion Show, Bonham’s Appraisal Weekend, them for the first time. and many more.

Both major annual fundraisers were sold out, thanks to the tireless efforts of scores of volunteers. The Gallery Ball in October treated guests to a peek at the Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Dalí Up Close exhibitions, a sumptuous dessert bar, and dancing to live music in Eckhardt Hall, where Brian Jungen’s award-winning installation Vienna (2003) hung overhead. In January, Art & Soul: The Lucid Dream brought revellers to four floors of the WAG for a surrealistic evening of art and fun.

Nuit Blanche, the WAG’s highly popular contribution to the national Culture Days weekend in September, once again drew line-ups around the block for its all-night celebration of visual art and crafts. The night included art-making activities throughout the Gallery, from bracelet- making with the Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library to Exquisite Corpse, a game invented by the Surrealists where participants collectively assemble words or images.

photo caption: Tracy Bowman, Mayor Brian Bowman, Hazel Borys, and Dr. Stephen Borys at Art & Soul 2015; Artist Nadia Myre accepting the 2014 Sobey Art Award; the Gallery Ball 2014 live auction.

52 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Art & Soul: The Lucid Dream sold out and brought more than 800 people to the Gallery, many for the first time.

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Government Corporate and $2,500 to $4,999 Foundation Donors 49-97 Capital Partners Government of Canada Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson Canada Council for the Arts $25,000+ LLP Department of Canadian Heritage 1832 Asset Management Akman Construction Anonymous Cambrian Credit Union Province of Manitoba BMO Financial Group Canadian Arctic Producers Bureau de l’éducation française under the aegis of the Canada/ Border Glass & Aluminum Cibinel Architects Ltd. Manitoba Program for Official Cholakis Dental Group Dante Aligheri Cultural Society Languages in Education Great-West Life Embassy of the Federal Republic Canada Manitoba Infrastructure Investors Group Inc. of Germany Community Places Program, The Winnipeg Foundation Gurevich Fine Art Manitoba Housing and Hellenic Professionals Association Community Development $10,000 to $24,999 of Manitoba Green Team Manitoba, Manitoba Adventure Canada KPMG LLP Children and Youth Opportunities Alpha Masonry Manitoba Hydro Heritage Grants Program APTN McFadden Benefits & Pension Ltd. Manitoba Arts Council Friesens Corporation Manitoba Public Insurance Manitoba Tourism, Culture, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Nova 3 Engineering Heritage, Sport and Consumer Mauro Family Foundation Peter Pauls Auto Broker Protection Minerva Painting & Decorating Pollard Family Foundation City of Winnipeg Qualico PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Winnipeg Arts Council The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation R.D. Sales The Herb & Cece Schreiber Family Scotia Private Client Group Other Support Foundation Sunwing Vacations Arts Stabilization Manitoba Inc. Johnston Group Inc. The Greek Market Government of Nunavut The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance The Winnipeg Rh Institute Winnipeg School Division Company of Canada Foundation Inc. VIA Rail Canada $5,000 to $9,999 Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc. HUT K Winnipeg Building & Decorating Gillis Quarries Ltd. Inn at the Forks Your Next Event Fort Garry Hotel Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries $1,000 to $2,499 Melet Plastics Inc. 5468796 architecture Mematt Investments Ltd. American Hellenic Educational National Leasing Progressive Association Pepelassis Medical Corporation (AHEPA), Winnipeg Chapter Red River Cooperative Ltd. Anonymous Roger Watson Jewellers Alter Ego Sports Storm Catering Bella Moda Furnishings The Boeing Company Big Games The Leonard Foundation Classic 107 The McCain Foundation Conviron TD Bank Daughters of Penelope Terracon Development Ltd. Fox & Fiddle

54 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Graham C. Lount Family Manitoba Blue Cross Individual Donors Foundation Pitblado LLP Greek Orthodox Ladies Robinson Lighting and Bath Centre Governors’ Circle $10,000+ Philoptochos Society Royal Ontario Museum Dr. Stephen and Mrs. Hazel Borys High Tea Bakery The Jewish Foundation of Andrew B. Paterson Kristina’s on Corydon Manitoba – Alyssa Sara Director’s Circle $5,000 to $9,999 Lawton Partners Averbach Memorial Fund Anonymous Maxime’s Restaurant & Lounge Trilogy Wealth Management Irena Cohen Nick’s Inn Restaurant True North Sports and Marcel Dzama Number TEN Architectural Group Entertainment Vittorio Rossi Clothiers Nunavut Development Corporation Curators’ Circle $2,500 to $4,999 Waterfront Massage Therapy Planned Perfectly Al and Cindy Babiuk PMA Canada $100 to $499 Morley and Marjorie Blankstein Red Bull Canada Ltd. Aevi Boutique Thomas Blumberg The Employees of the Winnipeg BCBGMAXAZRIA Natalija J. Rori Borger Free Press Ben Moss Jewellers Don and Connie Borys The Forks North Portage Neil Farber Partnership Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet Simon Hiebert & Rosa Grijalva The Forks Renewal Corp. Delta Winnipeg Sarah Anne Johnson The Gail Asper Family Foundation Diamond Gallery Inc. Edward Carriere Salon Grace E. Thomson Ethero Events & Management The Greek Community of Winnipeg Artists’ Circle $1,000 to $2,499 Broadway Florists The Greek Market Jeff Baigrie Farmery Brewery The Northwest Company Maxine and John Bock Festival du Voyageur The Standard Downtown LA Richard and Joyce Brownscombe Five Small Rooms Western Financial Group Jeff and Tammy Chester Freig & Associates Winnipeg Winter Club Dr. Arnold Cohn and WOW! Hospitality Concepts Girl Candy Shop Dr. Carla Cohn Heartland International Travel Hennie Corrin $500 to $999 and Tours Ltd. John Crabb and Marilyn Baker Acryl Design Ltd. Interior Illusions Athena Dinos and Ross Hoople AON Reed Stenhouse Inc. Manitoba Opera Herbert Enns and Armstrong & Small Eye Care Olympia Cycle & Ski Maem Slater-Enns Centre Segovia Tapas Bar and Restaurant Margaret and W.M. Fast Banville & Jones Wine Company Strategym Nicole Fletcher Browns Shoes Inc. Toto n Dot Curwin Friesen and Candie & Dolls United Way of Winnipeg Jill Weber Friesen Caspian Projects Winnipeg Blue Bombers Football Dimos and Nancy Ginakes Crown Cap (1987) Ltd. Winnipeg Folk Festival and Family DeFehr Foundation Inc. Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Lila Goodspeed Dorset Fine Arts Winnipeg Trolley Company Shawn Greenberg Downtown Winnipeg BIZ Faye Hellner and Garry Hilderman Economic Development Winnipeg David and Diane Johnston Fox & Fiddle Katapodis Family Giftpact Foundation Inc. Els and Kevin Kavanagh Hilary Druxman Ruth Kettner Investors Group Charitable Giving Helene and Dimitri Kontzamanis Foundation

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Drs. Maria and Milt Lautatzis Dawn Erin Kelley Philip Ashdown Darryl and Shauna Levy José and Rudolf Koes Earl J. and Cheryl Barish William H. and Shirley Loewen Candice Lawson and Lawrence Christina Barwinsky Dr. and Mrs. Angelos Macrodimitris Legrange Mary Beamish Jane and Andrew Maksymiuk Paul Leinburd Dianne Jane Beaven The late G. Richardson Daniel Levin Alex and Val Berman Dean and Rachel Scaletta Micah Lexier Mark Bernstein Pam Simmons Darryl and Shauna Levy C. Richard and Joyce Betts Eva Stubbs Karen Liddiard Diane R. Biehl John Verogos Pentti and Joan Luukkonen Rita Bienvenue Roxroy West and Diane Payment Scott McCulloch and Liz Ling David and Gillian Bird Alan and Erica McLaughlin C. Jean Bissett Supporter $500 to $999 Sheldon Mindell June M. Black Aliza Amihude Grace Nickel Murray and Ellen Blankstein Stephan and Judith Barg Perry and Billie Nodelman D. Joan Blight Ted Barker Gim C. Ong The late Ruth Bredin C.D. Bredt and J. Cameron Gerry and Barbara Price David and Sheila Brodovsky William and Beverley Brennan Dominique Rey Paul and Doreen Bromley Doneta and Harry Brotchie Alex Robinson Jill Brooks Kathleen Campbell Anna Robinson Enid Brown and David Robinson Lloyd and Marian Campbell Miriam Rudolph Ellen Bruce Tom and Louise Carson Arnold Saper Carol Budnick Anne-Marie Chagnon Tim Schouten and Pat Hardy John and Laureen Bulman Stephen and Ruth Chipman William and Renate Schulz Norman Burrows Lynn and Deborah Dalziel Carol and Daniel Stockwell Gus Campbell Lainey Danzker Ray Turner David Carr Robert G. and Alison Darling Ginny Twomey and Terry Johnston Katherine and William Cheater William Diehl-Jones Mary C. Valentine Stephen C. and Cynthia Cohlmeyer Kevin and Sharon Donnelly Daniel Vandal Agnes and John Collins Harry and Mary Lynn Duckworth Ross and Rose Watson Christine H. Coltart Michael Edwards Richard L. Yaffe and John Statham Kay Condra Sean Edwards Desmond and Elizabeth Connor Deb Fast and David Wiebe Friend $100 to $499 Robert and Sylvia Connor Ann Feierstein Carole Abbott Gerald and Chris Couture Max Feierstein Paula Achtemichuk Meribeth Coyne Daniel Friedman France Adams and Stephen Brodovsky Marilyn Craggs and Don Moren Bert Friesen Brian Akins Margaret Cuddy Bud Gillies Trish Allison-Simms H.G. Curle and B. Phillips John and Gloria Ginakes Family Hans Anderson Paul Daeninck Sandra Goening Jay and Judy Anderson Derwyn and Mary Shirley Davies Patricia Guy Lee and Wayne Anderson Franca Degrazia Paula Havixbeck Fannye Andrews Marc Del Bigio and Adrian Hrybinskey Janice Kenworthy Esther Rose and Aubie Angel Simon Hughes Ronald and Chloe Del Bigio Dr. I.O. Anyadike Daria Hyworon Nancy Dillow Thanasis Argyriou Family Takashi and Shih-Han Iwasaki Claire Dionne Linda Armbruster Leonard H. Kahane

56 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Sally Dowler Stephen Knysh Prof. Nettie Peters Brook Drabot J. Kredentser and E. Van der Zande Carol Philips Shirley Duckworth D.M. Kristjanson Al Pich Orvie Ellis Lois Kristjanson and Helga Marina Plett-Lyle Anne Fallis Elliott Kristjanson Lawrie and Frances Pollard Sophie and Billy Elliott Katarina Kupca Bill Pope and Steven Feldgaier and Sharon W.K. Labies Elizabeth Tippett-Pope Shaydak Robert Lamb and Patricia MacKay Mr. John Preston Gilles Ferrand Barbara Latocki Michael Rachlis Elaine Finnbogason Rodney LaTourelle Juta Rathke Marusia Foster G.H. Lawler and Anne Lawler Martin Reed Heather Frame Cycelia Lazarowich Lisa Reico Cathy and Trevor Gamble Huguette Le Gal Iris Reimer Rosemary Gill Rick Lee and Laurie Shapiro Joan Richardson Rosalie E. Gillespie Irene Legg Amy Richmond and James Hanley Sherry and William H. Glanville Easton and Debby Lexier Henriette Ricou and Jure Manfreda Kami Goertz Heather Lindsay Nichole Riese Prof. Robert and Dr. Linda Gold Ted and Wanda Lismer James A. Ripley and Diane Jones Barbara Goldenberg Christy Little Tom Roberts Ruth Gongos Christie Macdonald and Philip Yvonne and G.A. Robertson Susan Gottheil St. John Gisela Roger Garth Grieder E.R. and Natalie MacDonald Renée Roseman Ahava Halpern Dr. Douglas MacEwan Robyn Rypp, and Arnie, Beth, Bruce Hanks Vernon S. MacKelvie and Jacqui Usiskin Evelyn and Larry Hecht Carol A. Macoomb Kevin Sanders Ted and Gail Hechter Marie Maguet Brent Schacter Martha Helgerson and Catherine Maksymiuk Fred Schaeffer Donald Houston Judy Manning Lucille Schmidt Gail Hitesman Elaine and Neil Margolis Harry Schwartz Tim Horn Lynne McCarthy and Claude Davis B.J.N. Scott Angie and Mike Houvardas Andrew Mclaren Charlene Scouten Richard and Karen Howell Marilou McPhedran Anna Scully Charles Huband Michael Mendelson and Marsha Betty Ann and Sam Searle Analee Hyslop Cohen Majid and Moti Shojania Phyllis Ilavsky Valerie Metcalfe Frederick and Edith Simpson Harry Ingleby Ron and Sandi Mielitz John Smeulders and Mae Denby Lesley Iredale David Moore Suzie Smith Judy Jennings Linda M. Moore Shane Solomon Claire and Gerald Jewers Vera Moroz Bob Somers Bruce and Laura Johnston Grange Morrow and Linda Hamilton Jennie S. Squire Johanna and John Kassenaar Sharon and Mel Myers Emöke J.E. Szathmáry and Jo’Anne Kelly Jeff Neufeld and Katrina Lee-Kwen George A. Reilly T. Killeen and I. Hamilton Mr. Patrick O’Reilly Ruby and Andy Tekauz Janet Kinley Carole E. Osler Susan A. Thompson Bartley Kives Kathleen V. Parums Charles and Roine Thomsen Katherine Klassen John Paulsen Erik Thomson and Nicola Spasoff Susan and Keith Knox John and Janine Pennington Phyllis A.C. Thomson

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Betsy Thorsteinson and In Honour of Arthur Blankstein In Honour of George Swinton Brad Caslor Ellen and Murray Blankstein Morley Blankstein Marvin Tiller Ellen and David Hamburg David and Sylvia Topper In Memory of Hope Kahane G. Les E. Ullyot In Memory of Patrick Boyce Leonard H. Kahane The White Family Richard Van Den In Memory of Dr. William Lakey Carole Freeman Shelley and Danny Vanderbyl Anonymous Stasa Veroukis Natasa and Francis Juck Nancy Vincent Leonard Karr In Memory of Gerald G. Law F.C. and Estela Violago Marsha Karr Betty Ann and Sam Searle Elaine Walker Christine Knoll In Honour of Elaine Margolis Pat Wallace Leona MacDonald and Douglas Riske Anonymous Faye Warren Maggie Martin Esther Rose Angel Marianne Wawrykow and Maxine Cristall Chris Kowal Michael Mendelson and Marsha Cohen Richard L. Yaffe Donald and Florence Whitmore Number TEN Architectural Group Paul Wiebe In Honour of Dr. Doug McEwan Betsy Thorsteinson Dennis and Gustine Wilton Johanna Kassenaar Harry and Evelyn Wray In Honour of Pam Cameron Joan Wright and Ray Fillion In Memory of Fred McQueen Mouzon Clifford and Heather Yaffe Barbara I. Robertson Richard L. Yaffe and John Statham Donn K. Yuen In Honour of Anita Collins John and Elizabeth Zandstra In Memory of Constance “Connie” Kenlyn Collins Pilgrim Eva Stubbs Tribute and In Memory of Margaret Collins Catherine Collins Memorial Gifts In Memory of George T. In Memory of Richardson In Memory of Mary Beamish Dorothy “Jick” Cormack Esther Rose Angel Anonymous Gary Essar Betty Ann and Sam Searle Esther Rose Angel Kathleen Campbell Richard L. Yaffe and John Statham Dr. Jaroslaw, Mary and Nancy Dillow Christina Barwinsky In Honour of Doren Roberts, Ernest and Nancy Mayer Judith Hall Nicole Fletcher, and Angeliki Jean E. Smallwood Bogiatji José Koes Freig & Associates Elaine Margolis In Honour of Hennie and Michael Rachlis Rick Corrin In Honour of Betty Ann Searle Nicholas Rice Bobby and Lynne Oreck-Wener Molly Anisman BettyAnne and Sam Searle In Memory of Terry Des Marais In Memory of Paul Slivinski Eric Des Marais Judy and Alex Slivinski

In Memory of John Greene In Memory of Murray Stern Gus Campbell The Symaks The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Manitoba In Memory of Bernhard Wiens David Moore Elizabeth Wiens

58 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Exhibitions Mauro Family Foundation Inc. Virtual Exhibitions McFadden Benefits & Pensions Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 Melet Plastics Holman: Forty Years of Graphic (based on list on website) Art Pattison Outdoor Advertising AIMIA Virtual Museum of Canada, Qualico Airport Railing Department of Canadian Heritage Red River Cooperative Ltd. Canada Council for the Arts TD Bank Group Panoramas: The North American DuPont Corian The McCain Foundation Landscape in Art First Air Terracon Development Ltd. Virtual Museum of Canada, Green Seed Development Department of Canadian Heritage Tourism Winnipeg Corporation Travel Manitoba Manulife Virgin Radio 103.1 Museums Assistance Program, Programs VIA Rail Canada Department of Canadian Heritage Art Camps Visual Lizard TD Bank Group Green Team Manitoba, Manitoba Winnipeg Airport Authority Inc. Children and Youth Opportunities Brian Jungen: Vienna Winnipeg Free Press Graham C. Lount Family Canada Council for the Arts Foundation Micah Lexier: Cathy Busby This, That, Those Young Canada Works, Department of Canadian Heritage Canada Council for the Arts Canada Council for the Arts Cannes Lions Collection on View Through the Eyes of a Child ENCORE Johnston Group Inc. Great-West Life Family Sunday Elisapee Ishulutaq WAG Celebrates MAWA at 30 The McCain Foundation First Air Canada Council for the Arts Government of Nunavut Free Day at the WAG Wanda Koop: Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Lynne Cohen: VIEW FROM HERE Between Something and Nothing Canada Council for the Arts French Language Education Canada Council for the Arts Programs 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Bureau de l’éducation française Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Inc. under the aegis of the Canada/ Art Gallery and Dalí Up Close APTN Manitoba Program for Official Air Canada Department of Canadian Heritage, Languages in Education Cambrian Credit Union Museums Assistance Program Classic 107 The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Quantum Programs CTV Manitoba Hydro Children’s Heritage Fund, Winnipeg Department of Canadian Heritage, Manitoba Public Insurance School Division Museums Assistance Program Pattison Outdoor Advertising Saturday Morning Art Classes Doowah Design Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg School Division Esdale Printing 2014 Sobey Art Awards Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí School Tours Art Gallery of Nova Scotia HUT K The Leonard Foundation Sobey Art Foundation Inn at the Forks Total Transportation Solutions Inc. Sign for Art KPMG Boeing Canada Technology Lawton Partners

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Studio Programs Host Bar Conviron The Jewish Foundation of Storm Catering The Forks Renewal Corporation Manitoba – Alyssa Sara McFadden Benefits & Pension Ltd. Creative Partners Averbach Memorial Fund Monopoly Realty Doowah Design Inc. Investors Group Nova 3 Engineering Ltd. Esdale Printing Co. Number TEN Architectural Group WAG Archives Push Design Heritage Grants Program Pollard Banknote Young Canada Works, Department Media Sponsor Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP of Canadian Heritage Winnipeg Free Press R.D. Sales Scotia Private Client Group WAG Holiday Season Tree Auction Sponsor Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc. 67th Winnipeg Scout Group Adesa Auctions Winnipeg Building & Decorating Stella’s Ltd. Floral Design Sweet Impressions Beyond Flowers Technical Vocational High School Auction Donors The Camel Studio Adventure Canada WAG Menorah Charleswood Florists Aevi Salon The Mauro Family Foundation Fache Floral Designs Air Canada Richard L. Yaffe The Floral Fixx Alter Ego Freshcut Downtown BCBGMAXAZRIA Special Events McDiarmid Flowers Bella Moda Ben Moss Jewellers Dessert Sponsors GALLERY BALL Browns Shoes ANNA October 18, 2014 Calm Air Cake-ology Canadian Art Producers Title Sponsor Chocolatier Constance Popp Candie & Dolls 1832 Asset Management Dessert Sinsations Café Crown Cap Lilac Bakery Art and Gallery Partner Delta Winnipeg Gurevich Fine Art Special Thanks Diamond Gallery Caspin Group DIGIPLUS Electronics Accessories Event Sponsors Doneta Brotchie Ltd. Aqua Vitae Tom Carson Dorset Fine Arts Build Films Flavia Fernandez/Ma Vie en Vin Edward Carriere C’est La Guerre Moving Pictures Festival du Voyageur Inc. National Leasing Five Small Rooms Downtown Winnipeg BIZ Ron Paley Fox & Fiddle EQ3 The Solutions Frontiers North Florist Supply Ltd. Table Sponsors Girl Candy Shop G.J. Andrews Food & Wine Shoppe Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson Heartland International Travel and Gray Jay Media LLP Tours Ltd. Planned Perfectly Akman Construction Ltd. Hilderman Thomas Frank Cram Stage Lite Manitoba Ltd. Alpha Masonry HUT K BMO Bank of Montreal Inn at the Forks Border Glass & Aluminum Interior Illusions Cibinel Architects Ltd.

60 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Joseph Ryan Diamond Marcel Dzama ART & SOUL Manitoba Opera Jerry Ells February 21, 2015 Northwest Company Cliff Eyland Big Games Nunavut Development Corporation Neil Farber Downtown Winnipeg BIZ Olympia Cycle & Ski Marusia Foster Farmery Brewery Peter Pauls Auto Broker Veronica Gillis Fox & Fiddle Prairie Theatre Exchange Bud Gillies High Tea Bakery Robinson Lighting Kami Goertz Planned Perfectly Roger Watson Jewellers Marianne Gopalkrishna PMA Canada Royal Canadian Mint Steve Gouthro Red Bull Canada Ltd. Segovia Tapas Bar and Restaurant Joan Hamilton True North Sports and Strategym Bruce Hanks Entertainment Sunwing Airlines Rand Heidinger Virgin Radio 103.1 The Forks Renewal Corporation Simon Hughes Western Financial Group Toto n Dot Takashi Iwasaki Waterfront Massage Therapy True North Sports and Judy Jennings Your Next Event Entertainment Sarah Anne Johnson Guest Lounge VIA Rail Canada Michel Joyal HUT K Vittorio Rossi Clothiers Jo’Anne Kelly Waterfront Massage Therapy Bruce Kirton Creative Partners Winnipeg Blue Bombers Football Alan Lacovetsky Doowah Design Inc. Winnipeg Folk Festival Rodney LaTourelle Esdale Printing Co. Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Micah Lexier The Sign Source Winnipeg Trolley Company Valerie Metcalfe Visual Lizard Winnipeg Winter Club Grace Nickel WOW! Hospitality Group Lisa and Sean Reico City of Winnipeg/ Buffalo Gals Dominique Rey Pictures Tom Roberts Artist Donors Anna Robinson Yisa Akinbolji Miriam Rudolph Aliza Amihude Michel St. Hilaire Iwan Baan Joseph Sanchez Ted Barker Arnold Saper Jill Brooks Tim Schouten Katharine Bruce Suzie Smith Teresa Burrows Eva Stubbs Anne-Marie Chagnon Ione Thorkelsson Jeff Chester Mary Valentine Meribeth Coyne Shelly Vanderbyl Dan Donaldson Megan Van Wong Lucinda Doran Michael Zajac Brook Drabot Maciej Dyskiewicz

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 61 Financials

The summary financial statements fully comply with Canadian accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations. Our financial statements were audited by KPMG LLP. The complete audited financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2015 are available upon request. Special events, Membership & Building & City of Winnipeg Funding Admission & Members Development Maintenance

Special Events 7% 10% 7% 9% Curatorial Programs & Museum 5% Services Donations 8% 24% 21% Revenue* Province Expenditure* Funding 41% 2014/2015 2014/2015

26% 8% Programs Marketing & Promotions 3% 31%

Federal Funding Administration Statement of Financial Position March 31, 2015, with comparative information for 2014

2015 2014 Assets Current assets $ 1,177,004 $ 1,548,563 Capital assets, net of amortization 4,085,500 4,188,308 Collection 38,411,545 36,920,883 $ 43,674,049 $ 42,657,754 Liabilities, Deferred Contributions and Net Assets (Deficiency) Current liabilities $ 2,135,775 $ 2,448,020 Deferred contributions: Expenses of future periods 234,988 153,972 Capital assets 2,415,831 2,577,421 2,650,819 2,731,393 ASM working capital reserve funds 500,000 500,000 Net assets (deficiency): Operating Fund 182,266 175,930 Investment in capital assets (333,818) (244,224) Works of Art Fund 38,459,566 36,976,097 Sir Peter Ustinov Fund 79,441 70,538 38,387,455 36,978,341 $ 43,674,049 $ 42,657,754

62 • WINNIPEG ART GALLERY *Chart % have been rounded Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Assets Year ended March 31, 2015, with comparative information for 2014

2015 2014 Revenue Grants: Province of Manitoba: Culture, Heritage and Tourism $ 2,312,000 $ 2,312,000 Other 27,839 45,538 2,339,839 2,357,538 Government of Canada: Department of Canadian Heritage 34,582 – Canada Council 144,000 164,000 Other 15,479 15,256 194,061 179,256 City of Winnipeg 390,000 465,000 Total grants 2,923,900 3,001,794 Earned: Admissions 436,290 941,542 Memberships 148,339 168,041 Donation 943,922 2,118,655 Donations of works of art at appraised value 1,427,788 893,530 Special fund drives 256,497 308,730 Other earned revenue 921,096 892,701 Retail 524,644 674,712 Volunteer Associates 30,619 12,773 Amortization of deferred contributions 161,590 178,629 4,850,785 6,189,313 Total revenue 7,774,685 9,191,107 Expenditures Administration, maintenance, security 2,719,206 3,675,071 Curatorial and museum services 1,211,817 1,656,738 Education, rentals and programs 770,067 831,782 Memberships and development 290,492 263,076 Marketing and promotion 357,958 486,103 Design, photograph, audio visual 116,674 142,249 Special fund drives 112,944 182,272 Retail 539,627 655,413 Volunteer Associates 15,614 12,939 Amortization of capital assets 231,172 245,296 Total expenditures 6,365,571 8,150,939 Excess of revenue over expenditures 1,409,114 1,040,168 Net assets, beginning of year 36,978,341 35,938,173 Net assets, end of year $ 38,387,455 $ 36,978,341

2014/2105 ANNUAL REPORT • 63 photo credits: Stephen Borys • Build Films • Culture Days/Matt Duboff • Eric Au Studios • David Kilabuk Michael Maltzan Architecture • Ernest Mayer • Leif Norman • Studio Martin Lussier • Heidi Reimer Evan Taylor • Ken Gigliotti, Phil Hossack, Alexandra Pauls/Winnipeg Free Press

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