Curator & Collector

A Blog about the Art, Museums, and Numismatics of the Northwest Coast

Archive for July, 2009

The Roy Henry Vickers Art Gallery in Tofino, BC

Posted: Friday, July 3rd, 2009 @ 10:38 pm in Bill Reid, Canadian Art, Canadians in the Arts, Museums & Galleries, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Roy Henry Vickers | 11 Comments »

A few days ago, my family returned from a very brief visit to Tofino on Vancouver Island in BC. It was the first time I had been there since I was a boy, and I was delighted to return, chiefly on account of the most famous gallery there. The Roy Henry Vickers gallery is, for [...]

Bill Reid’s Gold Box, Frog Brooch, and Dogfish Brooch

Posted: Friday, July 3rd, 2009 @ 10:04 pm in Art Heists, Bill Reid, Canadian Art, Canadians in the Arts, Museums & Galleries, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Storage Issues | 2 Comments »

The two photographs in this post show some of the recovered gold Bill Reid artefacts in the Museum of Anthropology’s collection; I photographed them on the first day of the re-opened Bill Reid Rotunda. (For those interested, this post links to the last in a series I did on the subject of this particular heist [...]