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Esquimo Tents, Cape Dorset

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Date:

26-28 July 1938

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Box number: A206-01

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2834144

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Frederick Horsman Varley fonds

Esquimo Tents, Cape Dorset
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Date(s):

26-28 July 1938

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour / aquarelle : watercolour over charcoal on beige wove paper ; 25.6 x 33.6 cm (support).
Support 25.600 x 33.600 cm

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no language

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Varley Inventory No. 179.

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Artist: Varley, Frederick Horsman, 1881-1969

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General note:

Removed from: Series: One of a group of ten drawings done on board R.M.S. Naspocie as a member of the Eastern Arctic Patrol expedition in 1938.

Source of title:

Title taken from inscription

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available

Exhibitions note:

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Exhibition title: Eskimo Art. Curators: R.H. Hubbard, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1952.01.16 - 1952.02.14., Exhibition title: F.H.Varley: A Centennial Exhibition. Curators: Christopher Varley, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; 1981.10.16 - 1981.12.06. Further venue: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia; 1981.12.18 - 1982.01.24., Further venue: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1982.02.12 - 1982.04.04., Further venue: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 1982.04.23 - 1982.05.30., Further venue: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; 1982.09.17 - 1982.11.13., Exhibition Title: Artists' Odysseys: The Arctic. Curator: Katrina Atanassova, Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery, Unionville, Ontario; 2006.05.21-2006.10.01., Exhibition Title: Treasured Memories 2: A National Archives of Canada Exhibition. [125th Anniversary of the National Archives]. Curator: Martin Tétreault, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1998.02.01 - 1998.09.30 (1939-408-1)

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: In charcoal, recto, l.r.: Varley, Inscription: mount, verso, t., in brown ink: 5/"Esquimo tents - Cape Dorset". Sketch made in the Summer of 1938. when employed by the Government as/artist to the Eastern Arctic Patrol party on "R.M.S" Nascopie".

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A206-01 : Mode of storage: A206 Unit: 01
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Inuit

Northwest Territories

Inuit - Dwellings

N.W.T. - Cape Dorset

Architecture
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Private

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1939-408 PIC
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[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [1939-408] A206-01

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1939-408] C-002654

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1939-408-1
Copyright: Estate of the artist until 2019.

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