Norman MacKenzie: Raiders of the Lost Vault

September 9, 2006 to February 2007

Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board and City of Regina Arts Commission

Successful lawyer, prominent citizen and accomplished art collector Norman MacKenzie also accumulated a significant collection of antiquities from the Near East, Egypt and Asia. The MacKenzie Art Gallery is now home to over 250 objects collected by MacKenzie between 1900 and 1936.

MacKenzie purchased many of these objects from Edgar J. Banks, American archaeologist, adventurer and dealer in Near Eastern antiquities. Banks’ colourful life became the inspiration for the film character Indiana Jones.

Along with Banks, MacKenzie acquired works from many prominent dealers and collectors of his era. MacKenzie also made his own collecting trips to the East.

This exhibition will present many of these exceptional objects in the context of the time that they were collected. MacKenzie kept detailed records and correspondence concerning these acquisitions and his own travels to the East in search of exotic artifacts. Information from MacKenzie’s archives will be included in the exhibition.

Image Credit:

Norman MacKenzie and one of the objects from his collection.

Norman MacKenzie: Raiders of the Lost Vault

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