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Monarda Fistulosa

Watercolour paint on a white sheet of paper. The painting is of an image of a multi-petaled flower. The petal has multiple skinny purple petals. At the base of the petals, are short green leaves. Below the flower head is a skinny straight green stem point down in about the middle of the page. On either side of the stem about half way down the stem are two green leaves. The leaves have darker green veins and points branching out on their sides. At the bottom right corner, there is a black maker’s mark. The whole painting is within a black frame.

Carstens, Courtney

Pieces of the Past

Coloured image printed on vinyl. The background of the whole image is a blue and white mix. The right side of the image has green grass at the bottom. At the very right, there is a brown tree with green leaves are red apples within the leaves. To the left (beside the door cut out), there is a light brown brick building surrounded by a brown glow. From the brown brick building all the way to the left edge, there are blue, brown, beige, and brown mostly rectangular buildings across the lower half of the mural. In the centre of the mural between some of the buildings, there is one taller light brown building in a tall point with two globe like features - one about one-quarter of the way to the top and one about halfway down. The lower buildings are surrounded by a brown glow. In front of the buildings, is a dark blue section with a wavy edge in front of them and some wavy lines throughout. Within the dark blue section, there is a sailboat with a light grey rounded triangle base and two beige triangles pointing upwards on top. At the left edge of the page, there is a triangular brown section overlaying everything around it and above it at the top corner, there are two branches with multiple green leaves surrounded by a green glow.      

Carstens, Courtney

Grace

Vertical colour painting. The top right corner has a head of a bird extending diagonally down the page to about the middle of the canvas. The head is light blue with white details. At the end, there is a orange beak with black around the mouth and eyes. The eye is black and brown. The background around the head and the top of the page is black. The rest of the image is multiple rows of feathers that start white and become a darker blue as they go down. At the bottom left corner there is a hand written name.      

Compton, Lisa

Flirting

Vertical colour painting. The top of the painting is a black background. On the right side about one-third down, there is a white bird’s head and neck. The next is extending diagonally from the right edge and curves towards the centre. At the end of the next, there is a orange beak with black by the eye and mouth. The eye is black. The rest of the painting is multiple vertical rows of feathers with white (with yellow detailing) along the top and down the centre and light blue below and beside the rows of white. At the bottom left corner there is a hand written name.

Compton, Lisa

Evening Rendezvous Fluff

Vertical colour painting. The top of the painting is a black background. On the right side about one-third down, there is a white and blue bird’s head and neck. The head is along the right edge and the neck and beak going diagonally down towards the middle of the page. The beak is orange with black details along the eyes. Two eyes are visible and both are black. The rest of the painting is multiple vertical rows of feathers with white (with yellow detailing) along the top and down the centre and light blue below and beside the rows of white. At the bottom left corner there is a hand written name.

Compton, Lisa

Fire Hose Reel

Metal fire hose reel composed on two spider reels connected via metal bars and spindle trunnion. A pipe is attached to the trunnion where a water hose can be attached. A series of pipe elbows are connected to the trunnion pipe leading to an attached water valve. The exterior of the outward-facing reel spider is painted red and displays an inscription about the item’s patent, inventor, and place of origin.

Montgomery, Beauchamp Henry

Door

2015.001.02a: Door
Side one (display side): Green paint on wood with two long upper panes and two small lower panes. Opening in left side for doorknob fixture. The green paint is chipped to reveal brown on the upper right pane and the two lower panes. Number “4” written on the upper right pane. Green paint is chipped to reveal a pale green area covering about 1/5 of the upper left pane. Side two (non-display side): Light pink/white paint on wooden door. Mirror of side one with two long upper panes and two small lower panes. Paint is chipped on upper left pane to reveal white, blue and brown. Number “4” written on upper right pane. Paint is chipped to reveal white throughout the lower left pane.

2015.001.02b: Doorknob
Two cylinder gold pieces that tapers towards the opposite knob but then the base of the cylinder is larger. The two gold cylinders (knobs) are connected by two silver cylinders (one in the middle and one on one side of the middle one). Beside the middle silver connecting cylinder, there is another silver cylinder but is only attached to one of the gold pieces. The side silver cylinder connected to both pieces is smooth around on the side of knob but as it connects to the other, it has a spiral design engraved in. Between both knobs, there is a thicker silver cylinder at a ninety-degree to the smaller silver pieces. It has holes in it for the smaller cylinders to go through. At the end of the thicker cylinder, there is a metal rectangular piece, silver with rounded circles on one side, and green on the other. The green side has a rounded triangle prism attached.

2015.001.02c: Butt Hinge
Two metal rectangular pieces attached by alternating cylinder like rectangles. Each rectangle has four holes. On one side of the rectangles, the metal is gold for most of the area but where they meet in the middle is painted a light green. On one side corner, there are multiple lines of engraved text. On the other side of the rectangles, one piece is painted brown and the other is mostly white with some beige on the edge and where the two pieces meet is painted a light green.

2015.001.02d: Butt Hinge
Two metal rectangular pieces attached by alternating cylinder like rectangles. Each rectangle has four holes. On one side of the rectangles, the metal is gold for most of the area but where they meet in the middle is painted a light green. On the other side of the rectangles, one piece is painted brown and the other is mostly white with some beige on the edge and where the two pieces meet is painted a light green.

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Radiator

2015.001.03a: Radiator
Silver metal radiator with a steam trap. The radiator has four rounded legs (two on each side) which slant outwards slightly and a circle near the end. The rest of the radiator is made of two horizontal metal pipes and eight vertical oval pipes spaced equally around the two horizontal pipes. Along the side of the vertical pipes, there is a metal seam which runs from top to bottom. On the left side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the top with a hexagon with a gold inner circle protruding out of it. Also on the left side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the bottom with a hexagon with a letter inside of it protruding out of it. On the right side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the top with a hexagon with a letter inside of it protruding out of it. Also on the right side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the bottom with a hexagon within and a steam trap protruding from the side. The steam trap is a darker silver. It is attached to the radiator through a pipe with a large hexagon at one end and the steam trap on the other. The body of the steam trap has a hexagon on top with text, a large oval sphere with a circular band across the middle, and a cylindrical pipe pointing down.

2015.001.03b: Radiator, partial
Partial piece of the radiator. The piece is brown metal. The base of the piece has a hollow circle with circular ridges. The base then connects to the larger part which is circular. The larger part is round in the middle, on the right it slants in slightly but then widens to a hexagon with a rounded top, and on the left, it widens to a circle with a flat side and continues to shrink to smaller hexagons with flat sides for two more times until it ends with a small smooth circle pipe.

2015.001.03c: Radiator, partial
Partial piece of the radiator. The piece is metal and painted partially white. The base of the piece is made of two curved bars attached by large screws and washers at their ends and when connected, the two bars create a hexagon shape in their centre. Attached to one of the bars is a circular piece with a hole in the middle. The hole protrudes out and on the outer edge, has ridges along the piece. 

American Radiator Company

Radiator

Silver metal radiator with a steam trap. The radiator has four rounded legs (two on each side) which slant outwards slightly and a circle near the end. The rest of the radiator is made of two horizontal metal pipes and eight vertical oval pipes spaced equally around the two horizontal pipes. Along the side of the vertical pipes, there is a metal seam which runs from top to bottom. On the left side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the top with a hexagon with a gold inner circle protruding out of it. Also on the left side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the bottom with a hexagon with a letter inside of it protruding out of it. On the right side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the top with a hexagon with a letter inside of it protruding out of it. Also on the right side, there is a slightly protruding circle at the bottom with a hexagon within and a steam trap protruding from the side. The steam trap is a darker silver. It is attached to the radiator through a pipe with a large hexagon at one end and the steam trap on the other. The body of the steam trap has a hexagon on top with text, a large oval sphere with a circular band across the middle, and a cylindrical pipe pointing down.

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Spoon

Silver metal spoon. At one end, there is an egg shaped bowl-like feature which creates a concave shape. One end of the egg-shaped dish is attached to a skinny metal rod. The rod is rectangular with a curved protrusion extending up from the rod from the end of the dish to the beginning of the handle. The handle at the other end of the rod is also egg shaped but curves smoothly to the rod so it does not have a tip. Within the hand there is a raised ridge a few millimeters from the edges starting on one end of the rod to the other. In the centre of the handle is a circular hole with a letter engraved below. On the back, above the hole, three letters are engraved.

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