Dark Pool, Ti Magami

Artist
Location
Temagami, Ontario, Canada
Date
1929
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50.8 x 63.8 cm
Credit
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, purchase, Canadian Artworks Acquisition Fund
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Painted after Canadian artist David Milne returned from a summer of camping in Temagami, a remote region in northeastern Ontario, Dark Pool, Ti Magami is one of thirteen works inspired by Milne’s discovery of a surface pool created by an abandoned and flooded mineshaft. Known for the “flatness” of his works, Milne makes little effort to construct pictorial layers in Dark Pool, Ti Magami, instead forces viewers to become absorbed in the colors and forms much as he himself became absorbed in that abandoned mineshaft pool.