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Jun 7 - Nov 15, '19
In this exhibition drawn entirely from the Assiniboine Park Conservancy (APC)’s collection, you will experience Phillips’ typical scenic and tranquil representations of human presence within the natural environment.

W.J. Phillips (1884-1963) was an active figure within Canada’s artistic community from 1913, when he arrived in Winnipeg from England, until his death 50 years later. He was an influential art critic and teacher, and worked widely across the country, as well in the United States and abroad.

The Human Trace is organized around four overlapping expressions of human activity that appealed to the artist, and recur throughout his imagery: the physical manipulation of the land itself, the building of structures, harnessing of the earth’s resources through labour, and human adaptation of the natural environment for leisure pursuits.

WAG@The Park presents a rotating series of exhibitions curated by the WAG at The Pavilion at Assiniboine Park Conservancy (APC). Art is selected primarily from the APC collection, as well as from the WAG’s vast holdings.

New hours of operation at WAG-Qaumajuq starting April 1
WAG-Qaumajuq recognizes that land acknowledgements are part of an ongoing dialogue with Indigenous Nations, and we are grateful to live and work on these lands and waters. Institutionally, WAG-Qaumajuq is committed to acknowledging our colonial history and we are actively working to interrogate the Gallery’s colonial ways of being.

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