MEDIA IMAGES Media Images for Curious, Royal BC Museum at Wing Sang, June 14 Sept 3, 2012 Images available from: news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca or by calling 250-387-3207 (or 250-387-2101) The four concurrent exhibitions in the 7,500 sq ft space are: Artifact Artifiction; ; Magic Lantern; Bottled Beauty. Wing Sang building at 51 East Pender, in Vancouver s Chinatown, built in 1889. Photo: Martin Tessler Mockup of the Wing Sang building as it will look from June 14 to September 3, 2012 during the Royal BC Museum s Curious exhibition.
Magic Lantern British Columbia seen through glass Strawberry pickers in Saanich, Vancouver Island, about 1920. Gus A. Maves; I-66570. Magic Lantern British Columbia seen through glass Phyllis Munday and daughter Edith on Grouse Mountain, North Vancouver, 1924. Don Munday; I-66571. Magic Lantern British Columbia seen through glass Ruby Nachtubb and Pete, about 1908. Newcombe Family; I-66573.
Bottled Beauty Creatures from the collection The American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana), was brought to BC by aspiring frog farmers and is now widespread. When skin loses its blood supply and is then preserved in alcohol, it loses pigments rapidly. Most specimens in the Royal BC Museum s wet collection quickly become the colour of pale peanut butter. Bottled Beauty Creatures from the collection The Royal BC Museum has been collecting animals and plants since 1886. Most of the animals in these bottles would look like deformed blobs if allowed to dry out. This Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis oreganus) is found in southern British Columbia. Bottled Beauty Creatures from the collection This Pomoxis nigromaculatus, or Black Crappie, was collected at Osoyoos Lake in 1977. Some of the thousands of specimens in the wet collection at the Royal BC Museum date back to the 1800s.
Artifact Artifiction Test wits with our curators Curator s Statement: The oil and gas industry in northern British Columbia used plugs like this to seal seismic test holes. True or False? Artifact Artifiction Test wits with our curators Curator s Statement: This is an early anti-theft device for a car. True or False?
Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr wearing cape and tam, 1901. Photographer (attributed to) John Douglas, St. Ives, England. I-60891. Emily Carr, age 30, poses for the camera in 1901. Her cape dates to the 1890s, perhaps purchased while in England. (Note:The date previously assigned to this photograph, in a variety of publications, was too early. New research has determined that Carr was thirty years old when this photo was taken.) Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, The Olsen Student, 1901-1902. Gouache on paper. PDP06125. This cartoon sketch and poem are part of a series produced in 1901-02, while Emily Carr was in England. This style was more typical in Carr s funny books and portrayals of fellow students. These earlier sketches were sometimes accompanied by witty commentary, as in Carr s travel journals. Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Crécy-en-Brie, 1911. Oil on panel. PDP04682. This painting, made during Carr s time in France in 1911, was given as a wedding present. Presented in memory of Edward and Ellen Cridge, 1981.
Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Study in Colour and Form, 1911. Oil on canvas. PDP00668. Carr is working through her new way of seeing in this painting created in France, 1911. Her art went from traditional to modern, and Carr herself changed as well. Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Skidigate (sic) Queen Charlotte Islands, 1912. Oil on canvas. PDP583. This was painted in 1912 following Carr s first trip to Skidegate, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) and demonstrates her new painting style after exposure to postimpressionists and other artists in France. Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Sombreness Sunlit, 1938-1940. Oil on canvas. PDP633. This is one of Carr s classic masterpieces. She captured the movement of sunlight and juxtaposition of shadow within the deep forest of the West Coast. In her diaries Carr wrote of her struggles to capture her perceptions. The forest in all its forms took over her interest almost completely from 1930 to 1937.
Royal BC Museum, BC Archives. Emily Carr, Yan, Queen Charlotte Islands, 1912. Oil on canvas. PDP2146. Carr was in the islands especially to paint the poles and villages. She was on a quest to document what she believed to be a dying culture, so she arranged travel to abandoned villages like Yan, to paint. (Skidegate was not abandoned). She painted in watercolours and sketched in pencil in the field and then came back to Vancouver and worked up oil paintings like these in her studio. These are two of the seven works purchased by the BC Government from Carr's estate in 1945. The frames were designed by Lawren Harris, member of the Group of Seven and one of Carr's executors. Media contact: Royal BC Museum Media Enquiries 250-387-3207 (or 250-387-2101) news@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca