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- Artist
- Title
- Date
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- Artist's Statement
- Description
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SC0252-OTO-PR-1
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Newnham - Building A - Level 3 Hallway towards Student Commons West
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Toni Onley (1948-2004)
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Headland
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1974
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Print
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Serigraph
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29.2 x 38.5 cm
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36/40
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"I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need." (Toni Onley)
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An amateur pilot, Toni Onley flew his Buccaneer Amphibian up and down the coast of Northern British Columbia and all over the Canadian arctic allowing him access to places that might otherwise be inaccessible. He produced on-the-spot watercolours some of which were later turned into prints. His subject matter is an ancient landscape worn down to the essentials. Whereas the 18th and 19th century explorers who travelled the arctic found it forbidding, Onley’s North is becalming. As in Headlands, it excludes human presence, even that of the artist. It is as if we are observing the unobserved. (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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"Toni Onley made over 300 editions of silkscreen prints from 1969 to 1989. Many editions were sold out or nearly sold out by the time Toni stopped marketing them about 1990, to concentrate on his more lucrative watercolour and oil landscape paintings.
Characteristic of these prints was the expression of landscape by its most prominent features. Without the details of realism, it was another form of landscape art, produced by a degree
of abstraction from nature, but one that sought recognition of the familiar rather than the subjectivity of pure abstraction."
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Toni Onley
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Purchased from Doris Pascal Gallery.
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Signed right side under the image, Onley
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