Burnaby Art Gallery

The Burnaby Art Gallery is a city-owned and -operated facility located in a heritage home in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It has been operating since 1967.

Scope of operation

The gallery is the only public gallery in Canada devoted to works on paper.[1] Established in 1967, the Burnaby Art Gallery has been dedicated to collecting, preserving and presenting a contemporary and historical visual art program by local, national and internationally recognized artists.[2] The Burnaby Art Gallery cares for and manages over 5,500 works of art in the City of Burnaby's Permanent Art Collection.[3] Located at 6344 Deer Lake Avenue, the Burnaby Art Gallery is operated by the City of Burnaby.

Building history

The Burnaby Art Gallery is located in Fairacres Mansion, which was designed by Robert Percival Sterling Twizell[4] (1875-1964).[5] Fairacres Mansion, also called Ceperley House, for its original owners, was built in 1910 at an estimated cost of $150,000.00, making it the largest and most expensive house in Burnaby, BC of its time.[6] It was constructed in the Edwardian Arts and Crafts style with handmade fixtures, carpentry and tiled fireplaces. The grounds included horse stables, an aviary, gazebo and pergola, lagoons, strawberry fields, greenhouses, a steam plant and a gardener's cottage.[7] The tiles throughout the house were imported from England, fabricated by Conrad Dressler and his Medmenham Pottery. In the former billiards room and parlour, a grand oak mantelpiece, hand-carved by George Selkirk Gibson, bears a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."[8] On the death of the original owner, Grace Ceperley, the house was sold to a series of private owners. In 1939, it was acquired by Benedictine monks, and became an Abbey in 1953.[9] The Order vacated the house in 1954 when it moved to Westminster Abbey (British Columbia) in Mission. After the Benedictines sold the property, it was used by the Canadian Temple of More Abundant Life and as a fraternity house for Simon Fraser University's Delta Upsilon Fraternity.[10] In 1966, the Burnaby Art Society, led by Jack Hardman, Sheila Kincaid and Winifred Denny, among others, worked with the City of Burnaby to purchase the 8.4 acre site for $166,000.00. The Burnaby Art Gallery opened its doors in June 1967.[11]

Permanent collection

The Burnaby Art Gallery manages a collection of over 5,500 objects, largely made up of works on paper (particularly original hand pulled prints) by Canadian artists. Highlights include substantial holdings by Ernest Lumsden, Jack Shadbolt, Takao Tanabe, Laurence Hyde, Gathie Falk, Sylvia Tait, Ann Kipling, Alistair Bell, Kate Craig, Al Neil and Molly Lamb Bobak.

Selected major exhibitions

•Tanabe: Chronicles of Form and Place, 2011-2012

•J.C. Heywood: A Life in Layers, 2008

•The Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting, 2017

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Canadian Art".
  2. ↑ "Burnaby Art Gallery".
  3. ↑ "City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection".
  4. ↑ http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/1373
  5. ↑ Hill, Charles (2013). Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918. Ottawa: National Gallery of Art. pp. 120–1. ISBN 9780888849151.
  6. ↑ Hill, Charles (2013). Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918. Ottawa: National Gallery of Art. pp. 120–1. ISBN 9780888849151.
  7. ↑ Hill, Charles (2013). Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918. Ottawa: National Gallery of Art. pp. 120–1. ISBN 9780888849151.
  8. ↑ Denny, Winifred (1974). The Story of a House: Ceperley Mansion to Burnaby Art Gallery. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery. p. 17.
  9. ↑ Cane, Jennifer; van Eijnsbergen, Ellen (2017). Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery. p. 13. ISBN 9781927364239.
  10. ↑ Cane, Jennifer; van Eijnsbergen, Ellen (2017). Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery. p. 13. ISBN 9781927364239.
  11. ↑ Cane, Jennifer; van Eijnsbergen, Ellen (2017). Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery. p. 13. ISBN 9781927364239.

Coordinates: 49°14′28″N 122°58′17″W / 49.2410°N 122.9713°W / 49.2410; -122.9713

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