Whyte Museum Of The Canadian Rockies Has A Canoe Exhibit

The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (located in Banff, Alberta) has a brand new canoe themed art exhibit that will run until October 2022…

Canoe is a stunning private collection that celebrates the canoe in art spanning 200 years. The canoe is our enduring connection to Canada’s remarkable geography. It has captured our imagination and allowed us to explore remote areas of the country with intimacy and wonder. The McCreath collection has been carefully built over two decades and is comprised of paintings and three-dimensional pieces, including a 14-foot canoe made of one continuous piece of birch bark in 2017 by Canmore resident Don Gardner. The earliest work in the collection is a very 1820 watercolour by John Halkett (1768 – 1852) and it concludes with a meditative 2018 acrylic on canvas painting by David Thauberger (1948, RCA).

The collection includes artist-explorers of the 19th century through works by a number of the founding members of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts (RCA) of 1880 who were also contracted by Sir William Van Horne to depict the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and expansion of western Canada.  The 20th-century works are by creative, well-established artists from across Canada who are also celebrated as art educators, designers, and printmakers. The collection encompasses works from all provinces and territories except the Yukon and spans all three Canadian coasts​

This exhibition is supported by BMO Private Wealth and Grit & Scott McCreath and Family.
David Thauberger R. C. A.

Summer Drift, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
36x46”
Private collection 
On loan to the Whyte Museum