ARTISTS
Edward Mitchell Bannister: Hidden Blackness
04 Oct, 2025 - 11 Jan, 2026
This is the first exhibition of Edward Mitchell Bannister鈥檚 work presented in Canada鈥�124 years after the artist鈥檚 death. Born in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Bannister was an accomplished, nineteenth-century African American painter known for pastoral landscapes. In addition to being a respected painter and abolitionist (with his wife Christiana Carteaux Bannister), he won first prize at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia for his painting Under the Oaks (now lost), making him the first African American/Canadian to win a major American art prize. While Bannister is increasingly revered in the United States, he remains largely unknown in Canada.
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