The Land, 2

Artist/Creator: Takao Tanabe (Artist)
Date: 1973
ID #: BG1644

Physical Description

Medium: acrylic
Support: canvas
Dimensions: 86.5 cm 114.6 cm (Object)
Object Description: While Takao Tanabe is now best known for his quiet, misty landscapes dominated by wide horizons, he began his career as an abstract painter, moving through abstract expressionism to hard-edge geometry and in so doing, made a significant contribution to the evolution of modern art in British Columbia. This painting from 1973 would likely have been executed once he started his position at Banff Centre, marking an evolution of Tanabe’s painting style from pure abstraction to a more representational style that references the landscape, with thinned oil paints marking out tracts in the land and sky through swaths of colour.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of Canaccord Capital Corporation, 1997
Related Exhibitions: –

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