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This peaceful river scene depicts a lone sailboat drifting across reflective water. Bannister’s atmospheric style emphasizes solitude and movement, recurring themes of his. The work points to the symbolic role of waterways in the Black Atlantic for…

This quiet waterfront scene highlights Bannister’s interest in maritime life and the working communities that shaped the North American East Coast. The figures are arranged within the environment to suggest a lived and familiar relationship to the…

This still life presents an arrangement of flowers, rendered with attention to detail and texture. Bannister’s choice of subject shows his versatility and ability to work outside the landscape genre for which he is known. Its inclusion demonstrates…

This coastal landscape shows figures gathered along the cliffs near Fort Dumpling, overlooking the waters once central to Rhode Island’s slave-trading economy. The tranquil scene alludes to the histories of ships and maritime routes that shaped the…

This portrait offers an intimate view of Christiana Carteaux Bannister, painted by her husband only a few years after their marriage in 1857. Bannister captures her in softer, warm colours, presenting her as composed and confident within an elegant…

A bill creating a more restrictive immigration policy by expanding government power to deny entry and deport immigrants.

Mrs. Lepera at her convocation surrounded by her past and present self talking about the importance of integrity in her life and her line of work.

Menelik Hall—Sydney, Cape Breton. The hall was constructed between 1935 and 1936 by Black residents of Sydney. In the hall Marcus Garvey gave his "the work that has been done" speech in 1937 to members of the Sydney branch of the UNIA. This was…

Guadeloupean immigrant woman headed to Montreal as a domestic worker, 1911

Selwyn Jacob was a film director who found that Black people were not being represented properly in film. He was determined to change this and found his success in the Canadian Prairies. Many people may not have liked the Black representation in…