Some Aspects of Head and Figure

Program, P.0610
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Identifier
P.0610
Type
Group exhibitions
Category
Visual Arts
Date
October 24 – November 12, 1977
Description
Some Aspects of Head and Figure: An exhibit from the art collection of Imperial Oil. Artists include: Goodridge Roberts, Jacques de Tonnancour, Hugh Mackenzie, Frederick Varley, John Alfsen, Tom Duquette, Marsha Teitelbaum.

An exhibition from the art collection of Imperial Oil. 

“Imperial Oil began to develop a collection of Canadian art in 1965, although sometime before that date it was commissioning Canadian artists to create cover paintings and illustrations for the Imperial Oil Review.”
The exhibition held at Open Space consisted of a sampling of sculptural and painted works by artists across Canada. 

Loren R. Lerner and Mary F. Williamson, Art and Architecture of Canada: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1991), p. 360.