Please note that the West Vancouver Art Museum is closed. The Art Museum will reopen for regular hours on January 22, 2025. Please join us for the opening reception Neighbours | 邻·礼: Xiangmei Su and Jiangang Su, taking place January 21, 2025. 

Lionel Thomas: Abstractions 1949–1990

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Lionel Thomas (1915–2005), 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. This exhibition profiles Thomas's rarely seen non-objective paintings inspired by nature. Thomas lived in West Vancouver and taught at the University of British Columbia from 1950 until 1981.

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