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Patterned Pleasure

Introducing The Jean and Marie Erikson Collection

by (author) Michele Hardy

Publisher
The Nickle Arts Museum
Initial publish date
Apr 2012
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889533202
    Publish Date
    Apr 2012

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Description

An exhibition catalogue featuring 60 beautiful colour illustrations of rare Oriental carpets from the Jean and Marie Erikson Collection.??In 2003 The Nickle Arts Museum received the largest donation for the arts in the University of Calgary's history. Dr Lloyd Erikson, Professor Emeritus in Anatomy at the University of Alberta and a long time collector of Oriental carpets, donated $1.5M to care for, research, and exhibit The Jean and Marie Erikson Collection currently on long-term loan to the Museum. Patterned Pleasure: Introducing the Jean and Marie Erikson Collection is the catalogue for the exhibition celebrating the donation.

About the author

Michele Hardy is an academic curator with Nickle Galleries and an adjunct member of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary. She is the author of numerous book chapters, articles, and exhibition catalogues and has curated more than three dozen exhibitions with a particular emphasis on Alberta craft and textiles.

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