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Shooting the Rapids

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Date:

1879.

Reference:

Box number: OP-0093

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2894476

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Frances Anne Hopkins fonds

Shooting the Rapids
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Date(s):

1879.

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting: oil on canvas; 91.4 x 152.4 cm.
Support 91.400 x 152.400 cm
Image 91.400 x 152.400 cm
Platemark x cm

Language of material:

no language

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Artist: Hopkins, Frances Anne, 1836-1919

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General note:

Voyageurs were generally contracted employees who worked as canoe paddlers, bundle carriers, and general laborers for fur trading firms. They were also known as engagés, or employees. The voyageurs were French-Canadian, Métis, English, First Nations and German.
"Shooting the Rapids" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall).

Custodial history:

This painting, along with three others, was acquired from the estate of Mrs. Hopkins by Anderson Galleries of New York. The four paintings were purchased by Robert Brook, the Canadian published from the firm Glasgow, Brook & Co., in 1921, and in turn were sold to the Public Archives for the same amount.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency available.

Reproduction note:

A reproduction of this painting was made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01

Exhibitions note:

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Exhibition title: unknown. Curators: National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1958.06.10 - 1958.09.01., Exhibition title: From Women's Eyes- Women Painters in Canada. Curators: Dorothy Farr and Natalie Luckyj, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario; 1975.12.12 - 1976.01.31, cat. no.: no. 14.

Further venue: MacDonald Gallery, Ministry of Government Services, Ontario; 1976.02.23 - 1976.03.31., Exhibition title: The Painted Past / Le passé en peinture. Curators: Staff of the National Archives, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1984.10.02 - 1984.10.31.

Further venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia; 1987.04.10 - 1987.06.07., Further venue: McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec; 1987.07.08 - 1988.01.03., Further venue: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1989.06.01 - 1989.07.11., Exhibition Title: Frances Anne Hopkins 1838-1919, Canadian Scenery. Curator: Janet Clark. Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario; 1990.01.29 - 1990.03.18.
Further Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; 1990.04.07 - 1990.05.27.
Further Venue: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1990.08.31 - 1990.09.30.

Further Venue: Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; 1990.10.20 - 1990.12.09., Exhibition title: An alluring symbol : the arrow sash in Canadian art. Curators: Myriam Tremblay, Martin Tétreault, Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec. 2004.03.21-2004.08.29., Exhibition title: The Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana Early Impressions of Quebec. Curators: Jim Burant, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2006.05.16 - 2006.09.05.

Further venue: Musée des Beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec; 2007.01.20 - 2007.03.18., Exhibition Title: In The Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art. Curator: Liz Wylie, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario; 1998.06.27-1998.11.01., Exhibition Title: Expanding Horizons: American and Canadian Landscape Painting and Photography 1860-1918. Curator: Dr. Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 2009.06.18 - 2009.09.27
Further Venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; 2009.10.17 - 2010.01.17, Exhibition Title: Canadian and Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2017.05.01 - 2021.09.27., Exhibition Title: Un Symbole de Taille: Le Fléche dans l'art canadien. Curator: Myriam Tremblay, Martin Tétreault, Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec; 2004.03.21 - 2004.08.29

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in brushpoint and red paint, recto, l.l.: FAH [monogram]
Subject heading:

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Québec

Transportation

Portraits

Transportation - Water - Canoes
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00002
1989-401 X DAP
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access restricted due to size of work and storage limitations.

Box [1989-401]

[Consultation 90 Open]

OP-0093 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1989-401]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-002774 Item no. assigned by LAC 2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Frances Anne Hopkins / Library and Archives Canada / acc. no. 1989-401-2 / e011180748
Copyright: Expired
Restrictions on use: Nil

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