JOYCE WIELAND "UNTITLED (RED BULGE)" DRAWING, 1961Joyce Wieland (1931 1998) was one of the most accomplished and versatile Canadian artists of the 20th century. Emerging on the Toronto art scene at the beginning of the 1960s, throughout her career Wieland would explore the role of women, the body, nationalism, and the environment using a variety of mediums yet illustration was always the bedrock of her practice. Perhaps one of the bravest and memorable elements in her oeuvre is her willing to explore

the artist's work is represented in major collections across North America including the Art Gallery of Ontario

In the "nice medallion painting" on the left the profile of the woman seems sagging and doughy

His aesthetic

he embraced printmaking in the mid-1960s with fervour

and dated by artist in the print

the Painted Flag

and fire engine red

and a hint of salmon to depict a broad swath of sky

26"H 32"W (sheet)

the legendary publisher

A pioneering visual storyteller

This untitled work is evocative of Wieland in the 1980's