RECENT ACQUISITIONS
The McMaster Museum of Art’s Acquisitions Committee meets on a regular basis with the Curatorial team to advise and oversee acquisitions, through purchase or donation, of works of art for the museum’s permanent collection.
Our acquisitions aim to advance the museum’s mission to de-westernize the collection, programming, and scholarship. In addition, the Committee is focused on purchasing works from living artists in order to directly support contemporary artists living in Canada today. This intentional shift in acquiring work was formalized in the museum’s 2020/2025 Strategic Plan, which launched January 1, 2020.
Purchases are made possible through the generous support of the Naomi Jackson Groves Fund (for the purchase of Canadian art), the Donald Murray Shepherd Trust, and the Museum of Art Collection Trust.
Recent acquisitions are detailed below. To explore our whole collection, please visit our eMuseum.
ACQUISITIONS GALLERY
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Rajni Perera
Flood Mask, 2020
textile on gasmask -
Suzy Lake
Reduced Performing: Blinking and Breathing #2, 2008
laminated chromogenic print, edition 2/3
Gift of Danika Neumann and Sean O’Meara -
Jamelie Hassan
ى
2005-2015
Neon on photograph mounted to panel on wood support
Gift of Liz Hassan -
Tim Whiten
Arisearose, 2016-2018
glass, wood, aqua-resin, maple -
Pudlo Pudlat
Proud Hunter, 1987
Stonecut on paper
© Dorset Fine Art
Gift of Pamela Chackeris -
Pudlo Pudlat
Startled Young Loons, 1987
Stonecut on paper
© Dorset Fine Art
Gift of Pamela Chackeris -
Simon Frank
Core, 2003
Bronze tree root resembling human heart
Gift of the artist -
Jason Baerg
Kîsik Pimiskanaw | ᑮᓯᐠ ᐱᒥᐢᑲᓇ | Sky Trail, 2014
Acrylic on laser cut steel -
Jason Baerg
Kisik Acimowina / Sky Story
Experimental single channel video
Gift of the artist -
Sean Caulfield, Timothy Caulfield, and Sue Colberg
Infodemic, artist’s book, 2020
relief and inkjet on rag paper
Gift of the artists -
Catherine Blackburn
Trapline I, 2019
Rabbit fur, beads, artificial sinew,
traps, wood beam, nails. -
Sonny Assu
The Paradise Syndrome,
Voyage #38, 2016
Archival pigment print -
Shellie Zhang
Cornucopia 5: Apples, Pears,
Lemons and Grapes, 2019-2020
Plastic, steel, wire, rubber, adhesive -
Hiba Abdallah
we remain profoundly and infinitely connected, 2019
Neon text sculpture -
Deanna Bowen
Donna (afterimage), 2019
Black opaque Plexiglas -
Denyse Thomasos
Life, 2009
Copyright courtesy of the Estate and Olga Korper Gallery
Acrylic on canvas -
Shellie Zhang
Still Life with Citrus, from the series Offerings to Both Past and Future, 2018-2020
Chromogenic print -
Shellie Zhang
Still Life with Dragonfruit, from the series Offerings to Both Past and Future, 2018-2020
Chromogenic print -
Shellie Zhang
Cornucopia 3: Pomegranates, Dragonfruits, Soursops, King Mandarin and Grapes, 2019-2020
Plastic, steel, wire, rubber, adhesive -
Catherine Blackburn
Aboriginal Classics: Fireweed, 2019
Glass beads, teabag, birch bark, sinew, dried plants, acrylic gel medium, fur -
Catherine Blackburn
Aboriginal Classics: Red Cedar, 2019
Glass beads, teabag, birch bark, sinew, dried plants, acrylic gel medium, fur -
Catherine Blackburn
Aboriginal Classics: Red Elderberry, 2019
Glass beads, teabag, birch bark, sinew, dried plants, acrylic gel medium, fur -
Catherine Blackburn
Aboriginal Classics: Cow Parsnip, 2019
Glass beads, teabag, birch bark, sinew, dried plants, acrylic gel medium, fur -
Catherine Blackburn
Aboriginal Classics: Lodgepole Pine, 2019
Glass beads, teabag, birch bark, sinew, dried plants, acrylic gel medium, fur -
Catherine Blackburn
Aboriginal Classics: Red Osier Dogwood, 2019
Glass beads, teabag, birch bark, sinew, dried plants, acrylic gel medium, fur -
Sonny Assu
The Paradise Syndrome, Voyage #30, 2016
Archival pigment print -
Sonny Assu
The Paradise Syndrome, Voyage #32, 2016
Archival pigment print -
Sonny Assu
The Paradise Syndrome, Voyage #36, 2016
Archival pigment print -
Sonny Assu
The Paradise Syndrome, Voyage #37, 2016
Archival pigment print -
Sonny Assu
The Paradise Syndrome, Voyage #39, 2016
Archival pigment print -
Sonny Assu
They’re Coming! Quick! I have a better hiding place for you. Dorvan V, you’ll love it., 2015
Digital Intervention on an A.Y. Jackson Painting (Kispayaks Village, 1927)
