Artist

Tait, Sylvia

Title

T. Variant no. 2

Technique

serigraph

Dimensions

63.7cm height x 48.3cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

1984.49

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

Anonymous Gift

Sylvia Tait grew up in Montreal and studied for four years at the prestigious Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School under Arthur Lismer, Jacques de Tonnancoeur, and Eldon Grier. She received three scholarships, the Top Student Award and an Honours Diploma. Since the 1950s she has exhibited across Canada, Mexico, and Ecuador in solo and group shows. Her paintings are in corporate and public collections in Europe, USA, Canada, South America and Hong Kong. Selected collections include Musée de l'Art Contemporaine,Québec; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and the Canada Council Art Bank.