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THBMary Cameron (20th Century) Canadian, Watercolor
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveAug 24, 2024
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of modern and contemporary art from mixed medias and lithographs to prints and abstracts. We have art glass sculptures, Versace glasses and plates, Steuben, a lifetime collection of fantastic estate jewelry, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Mary Cameron (20th Century) Canadian, Watercolor. Depicts a totemic image of a bear with tall ears, with a captive human in front of him. Signed middle bottom. Prior gallery label from Duluth, MN on back. Tag with thorough information on back reads: "BEAR TOTEM" (Kwakiutl) Alert Bay, British Columbia - Rep. by M. Cameron (TENAS EE-NA) #246 (Purchased in Vancouver, B.C. 1969)
Overall: 17 1/4 X 13 5/8 in.
Sight: 11 X 7 1/2 in.
#2822 .
At 173 feet tall, the wooden tribal totem in Alert Bay, British Columbia is demonstrably the tallest tower of its kind in the entire world. Since the mid 1960s Alert Bay has become a hub for First Nations tribes, particularly the indigenous Kwakiutl people, to come and carve new totems as a way of reclaiming their heritage and ancestral beliefs. Photographs, watercolors, woodblock prints and countless other representations of the totems have emerged since then capturing the spirit of these unique pieces of art and history. Each one tells a story, from the thunderbird lording over all creatures below, to the rabbit sneaking beneath the feet of a vicious wolf, to the bear who captured a man who threatened his fishing grounds and kept him as a pet. The popularization of the art form as collectible “native kitsch” led to heavy commercialization in the lower provinces of Canada and adjacent states in the US by the 1990s to supply the tourist trade, and in the new Millennium younger indigenous artists have returned to crafting images of the totems in abstract and symbolic styles as a way of reconnecting with their roots and distancing themselves from the fetishization of the “primitive” and “exotic” that their work was categorized as for decades.
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17 1/4 X 13 5/8 in.
