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- Location
- Artist
- Title
- Date
- Medium
- Technique
- Dimensions
- Edition
- Artist's Statement
- Description
- Provenance
- Inscription
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SC0285-RGO-PR-1
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Newnham - Building B - Level 3 - Front of B3000
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Untitled (Drumsticks)
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1974
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Print
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Silkscreen with drumstick attached
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60 x 60 cm
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41/100
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“Back then most of my friends were young artists who were also jazz nuts and, as a preference to Friday Night poker games, we played the game of music. We practiced along with records, emulating our favourites, until we began to try making our own music, taping, and listening to it and, with outrageous faith, began to consider it seriously.”
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Concordia
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This print comes from a series created by nine Canadian artists who were associated with a group called The Artists' Jazz Band which was active in Toronto from 1962 to around 1985. The prints were put out by the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto in 1974, and originally came in a wood and masonite box with two phonograph recordings. The objective was 100 complete sets; we believe fewer than 50 were completed.
The prints all relate to the theme of jazz. The Artists' Jazz Band itself was a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group initially composed of Toronto visual artists associated with the abstract-expressionist movement of the late 1950s. Collectively self-taught, it was formed in 1962 in a studio over the First Floor [jazz] Club by Dennis Burton, who played saxophone, and Richard Gorman, who played bass - both were members only briefly - with Graham Coughtry (trombone), Nobuo Kubota, (saxophones), Robert Markle (tenor saxophone and piano), and Gordon Rayner (drums). It included on a casual basis many other artists and musicians, including Bill Smith, Michael Snow, the bassist Jim Jones, and the guitarist Gerald McAdam. (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Gift of Dr. David and Jane Phillips
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Signed bottom right, Rayner 74
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