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Archive for June, 2009

Bill Reid’s “The Raven and the First Men”

Posted: Monday, June 15th, 2009 @ 9:44 pm in Bill Reid, Canadian Art, Canadian Paper Money, Canadians in the Arts, Museums & Galleries, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Numismatics, Religion and the Arts | 4 Comments »

Bill Reid’s sculpture “The Raven and the First Men,” yellow cedar version in the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to visit again Bill Reid’s wonderful sculpture The Raven and the First Men on the official reopening day of the Bill Reid Rotunda in the Museum [...]

Arthur Erickson and Bill Reid (with a brief multi-media webliography)

Posted: Saturday, June 13th, 2009 @ 8:54 am in Bill Reid, Canadian Art, Canadians in the Arts, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art | 2 Comments »

Screenshot of Arthur Erickson (L) with special guest Bill Reid (R) on a 1954 CBC program “Looking at Art” I was digging through the website of the CBC Archives the other day when I found this charming clip of two icons of Canadian architecture and art: Arthur Erickson and Bill Reid; the former, of course, [...]