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Characters from Thule,

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Date:

28-29 August 1938

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Box number: A206-01

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2834149

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Frederick Horsman Varley fonds

Characters from Thule,
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Date(s):

28-29 August 1938

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour over charcoal on wove paper ; 28.8 x 38.1 cm (support).
Support 28.800 x 38.100 cm

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no language

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Varley Inventory No. 184

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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:

Exhibition title: Eskimo Art. Curators: R.H. Hubbard, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1952.01.16 - 1952.02.14., Exhibition Title: Artists' Odysseys: The Arctic. Curator: Katrina Atanassova, Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery, Unionville, Ontario; 2006.05.21-2006.10.01., Exhibition Title: F.H. Varley: Portraits Into the Light. Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario; 2008.05.22 - 2008.07.01
Further Venue: Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Unionville, Ontario; 2007.05.25 - 2007.09.03
Further Venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 2007.09.22 - 2007.11.09
Further Venue: Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta; 2007.12.07 - 2008.02.17
Further Venue: Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia; 2008.03.08 - 2008.05.04

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed, recto, l.r. in pencil: VARLEY; verso, in pencil, u.l.: Characters from Thule. Greenland./ [underlined] Summer 1938.
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Inuit

Portraits

SUBJ - NATIVES, INUIT

SUBJ - NATIVES, NON-CANADIAN - GREENLAND

Greenland
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Private

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1939-409 PIC
00001
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on physical access or on use for reproductions or publication

Box [1939-409] A206-01

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Copy negative [1939-409] C-002656

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1939-409-1
Copyright: Estate of the artist until 2019.

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