Painting Item Number: 2574/62 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Watercolour storyboard panel showing humans in four different situations throughout time. The top left corner shows two men felling trees. The top right shows a man standing near a pillared building with tree stumps around it. The bottom right shows people fleeing from a sphinx holding a spear and men with shields. There are tree stumps surrounding them. The bottom left shows a man standing on top of a tree stump holding an axe. Beside this is an image of a horse drawn on a wall. The various parts of the panel are divided by blue curvilinear bands resembling Northwest Coast style formlines. There is writing in pencil surrounded by a blue stripe.