The Chameleon + Musca Australe (Austrinns) The Fly
https://archives.westvancouver.ca/link/fineart221
- Artist
- Thomas, Lionel
- Material Type
- Fine Art
- Date Range From
- 1976
- Repository
- West Vancouver Art Museum
- Artist
- Thomas, Lionel
- Material Type
- Fine Art
- Accession Number
- 2011.003.001
- Date Range From
- 1976
- Artifact Category
- Description
- ed. 3/88
- Height
- 28 cm
- Width
- 14 cm
- Material
- intaglio relief etching on paper
- Credit / Acknowledgement
- Gift of Dorothy Nairne
- Artist Biography
- Lionel Thomas, a pioneer of West Coast abstraction and proponent of the modern movement, helped transform the region through his art and practice. Thomas's extant public artworks include Symbols of the Cuneiforms (c. 1960), an illuminated sculpture on the façade of the former Vancouver Public Library. Thomas lived in West Vancouver and taught at the University of British Columbia from 1950 until 1981.
- Repository
- West Vancouver Art Museum