Digital Museums Canada Exhibitions

Ellen Vaughan Kirk Grayson (September 14, 1894 – February 8, 1995)
A Canadian artist, adventurer, and educator who was born in Moose Jaw into the Grayson Family Empire.
Growing up around wealth and culture, she traveled in Europe, Africa and South America with her cousin Ethel, attending schools in Budapest and London. She continued her education at St. Margaret's College in Toronto, at the Curry School of Expression in Massachusetts, and at Columbia University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science. She worked as an advisor for the Moose Jaw school board and as an art instructor at teachers' colleges in Regina and Moose Jaw. Grayson also published art appreciation textbooks for elementary and secondary school students.
During her life she was a wanderer and spent time hiking and sketching in the Canadian Rockies and the Okanagan Valley which shaped her artistic style in sketching, painting and printmaking.
She also composed a manuscript entitled Adventures of an Artist in the Canadian Rockies that was published after her death by the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery (the book can be purchased through the gallery) The work is made up of her experiences hiking and sketching in the Rocky Mountains.

Publication Vaughan Grayson: Adventures of a Canadian Artist in the Canadian Rockies available through purchase at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery giftshop

At 10:02 a.m. on Thursday, April 8, 1954, a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Harvard training plane collided with a Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) North Star passenger plane. Wreckage and debris covered a three-mile radius in the northeast part of Moose Jaw. The TCA passenger plane's engine landed on the city's Main Street and its fuselage, which missed Ross School and the 360 students who were inside by only 166 yards, crashed into the house at 1324 Third Ave. N.E.

In the end, this tragic accident took the lives of 37 people: the RCAF training pilot, Thomas Andrew Thorrat; the 35 people aboard the passenger plane; and one citizen of Moose Jaw, Mrs. Martha Hadwen.

Campbell Tinning (February 25, 1910 – February 28, 1996)

A Canadian painter, graphic designer, muralist, and illustrator who was born in Saskatoon. He was an Official Canadian War Artist in World War Two; the only one born in Saskatchewan. His father worked for the Union Bank and the family moved to a number of Prairie cities. After studying in Regina and participating in a few group exhibitions, Tinning attended the O'Hara Watercolour School in Maine and the Art Student League of New York. Post-war 1939, He resided in Montreal but traveled extensively and painted in every Canadian province, the United States, Jamaica, Italy, France, England and Scotland. In Montreal his art work flourished and he gained recognition exhibiting in the yearly spring group exhibitions of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Publications: Campbell Tinning: The Newfoundland Paintings & The War Art of Campbell Tinning available for purchase through the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Giftshop

Information about Campbell Tinning from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Campbell_Tinning

Chinese immigrants made a unique contribution to life on the Prairies and played a significant role in the history of Moose Jaw and district. On the occasion of Saskatchewan’s Centennial, this Community Memories exhibit celebrates the many remarkable lives in Moose Jaw’s Chinese community: generations who settled in this city, left and then returned, drawn home by the sense that this community is a "really special place for the Chinese."

Commissioned work created by Brenda Joy Lem about Chinese history in our community and is part of the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery/City of Moose Jaw collection.

Publication: Crossings: A Portrait of the Chinese Community of Moose Jaw available for purchase through the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Giftshop

This is a nationally compelling exhibition, one that the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery (MJM&AG) is proud to have spearheaded and organized. Following in a curatorial tradition at the MJM&AG of presenting innovative, historical, museum exhibitions along with exhibits that explore craft history, this is one of the first exhibitions and publications of its kind in Canada, highlighting trench art as a craft and military practice worthy of curatorial inquiry.

In the tedium of their time spent at rest, soldiers often occupied themselves by fashioning objects from available materials. This exhibition will look at these extraordinary objects of applied art and crafted items and the lived experiences which brought them into being.

These souvenir objects were made by Canadian soldiers during deployments from the Boer War to the present day. The exhibition will describe the many circumstances which inspired soldiers to make such incredible items.

More information available in our MJMAG Website under EXHIBITIONS

Publication

English & French: Keepsakes of Conflict: Trench Art and Other Canadian War-Related Craft available for purchase through the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Giftshop