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Courtesy Royal BC Museum.
"Untitled"
Mungo Martin, "Untitled," 1960, watercolour on paper, 16.8” x 13.8”.
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Courtesy Royal BC Museum.
"The Black Tusk, Garibaldi Park"
K.W.G. Macdonald, "The Black Tusk, Garibaldi Park," 1934, oil on board, 12” x 15”.
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Courtesy Royal BC Museum.
"Kicking Horse Pass (about 5000 ft)"
Lucius O’Brien, "Kicking Horse Pass (about 5000 ft)," 1887, watercolour, 13” x 17.8”.
Royal BC Museum in Victoria contributes to Google Art
Victoria’s Royal BC Museum was the first Western Canadian institution to join the Google Art Project. It is making an initial batch of 81 works accessible to the public via the Internet. Five other Canadian institutions are already working with the Google Cultural Institute in Britain, which aims to increase global access to important art.
Curators selected works made between 1778 and 1960. They included paintings created in British Columbia by notable artists Emily Carr, E.J. Hughes and Frederick Varley. Other artists – such as Mungo Martin, who was chief carver at the museum for a time – are less known outside the province.
To see the works, go to Google here.