The Arctic Experience McNaught Gallery is an art gallery located in

Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of T ...

, Canada."Expert ‘not convinced’ about J.E.H. MacDonald sketches"
Marsha Lederman, VANCOUVER. ''Globe and Mail'', March 21, 2015 It specializes in

Inuit art Inuit art, also known as Eskimo art, refers to artwork produced by Inuit, that is, the people of the Arctic previously known as Eskimos, a term that is now often considered offensive. Historically, their preferred medium was walrus ivory, but s ...

and Canadian landscape paintings.

History

Hamilton natives Marvin and Lorraine Cohen moved to

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is , slightly larger than Spain; its population was 13,039 as of the 2021 Canadia ...

in the 1970s when Marvin accepted a teaching position in

Frobisher Bay Frobisher Bay is an inlet of the Davis Strait in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island. Its length is about and its width varies from about at its outlet into the Labrador Sea ...

. The couple spent five years with the

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

community there and became connected with the people and their art. They returned to Hamilton in the 1980s and opened the Arctic Experience Gallery in 1983 on Houston Street to appraise and showcase

sculpture and hold exhibitions of the work of Inuit artists.
Inuit Art Quarterly
'. Vol. 7-8. Kingait Press; 1992. p. 39, 51. McNaught grew up in

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and moved to

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and

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before attending

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. She became involved in Hamilton's arts community, sat on the Editorial Board for Art Impression Magazine, was Arts and Entertainment Editor for 701.com, and acted as Director of Beckett Gallery from 1981 until it closed in 1993. The Cohens moved their gallery to its present location on James Street South in 1993. At that time they entered into a partnership with McNaught, who introduced a collection of Canadian paintings and prints to the gallery. In 2015 the gallery was in the news when NcNaught was called upon to help evaluate a large art collection. Among the paintings were a number of sketches asserted to have been drawn by Group of Seven artist

J. E. H. MacDonald James Edward Hervey MacDonald (1873–1932) was an English-Canadian artist, best known as a member of the Group of Seven who asserted a distinct national identity combined with a common heritage stemming from early modernism in Europe in the ear ...

and buried by him in the back yard of his home. In 2016 The gallery acquired 132 pieces of Inuit art created in the 1950s and 1960s by tuberculosis patients at the Hamilton Mountain Sanitorium."Art Gallery of Hamilton acquires major collection of Inuit art from TB sanatorium"
Jun 29, 2016 by Graham Rockingham ''Hamilton Spectator''

Sculpture

The Cohens continue to visit

Cape Dorset Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning "high mountain" or "where the hills are"; Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ), formerly known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin ...

to bring back new sculptures from some of Canada's Inuit artists, including

Pauta Saila Pauta Saila (1916 or 1917–2009) was an Inuit artist from Kilaparutua, Baffin Island, Canada who resided in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. His sister was artist Sharni Pootoogook. His works are massive, simplified sculptures of Arctic wildlife, usuall ...

, Kelly Qimirpik, Pudlalik Shaa, and Tukiki Manomie.

Paintings

The McNaught Gallery showcases pieces from Canadian artists who work with landscape and nature motifs. There is an emphasis on Hamilton-area painters, including Brian Darcy, James Gummerson, Heather Pate, and Gisele Comtois. The gallery also features a number of historical prints, including pieces from George Thompson, Franz Johnston, Ghislain Caron, Frank Panabaker, Frederick Haines, and Major James Wallis.

References

External links

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Arctic Experience McNaught Gallery Facebook Museum of Inuit ArtBrian Darcy James Gummerson Heather PateGisele Comtois
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