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- Location
- Artist
- Title
- Date
- Medium
- Technique
- Dimensions
- Edition
- Artist's Statement
- Description
- Provenance
- Inscription
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SC0368-WJO1-TX-1
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Seneca@York - S Building - Room S1115
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Wildlife Landscape
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1976
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Textile
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Tapestry
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Acrylic Fibre
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130.8 x 255.3 cm
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5/25
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"I think of Canada as female. All the art I've been doing or will be doing is about Canada."
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Art History Archive
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In 1975, Fay Loeb, in recognition that many of Canada’s commercial and public buildings were cold and stark, calculated that artist-designed tapestries would bring life as well as visual and physical warmth to these austere spaces. The cost would not be prohibitive and the tapestry would be resistant to damage.
In 1976, 23 Canadian artists and sculptors were each invited to submit preliminary drawings for a tapestry in an edition of 25. Wieland’s offering came on the heels of a similar commission for the Toronto Subway: BARREN GROUND CARIBOU, a quilt work which was begun in 1975 and completed and installed in 1978 (Kendal Ave. exit, Spadina Subway Station). Imagining people from all walks of life walking past her installation, Wieland wanted to bring the caribou into the subway as a reminder of the natural world above ground. Something of the same could be said of the tapestry. Although WILDLIFE LANDSCAPE stands on its own, we might also see it as a “preparatory study” for the subway commission. (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Purchased at auction from Heffel on September 2010.
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Signed lower right, Wieland 76
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