Sylvia Tait

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Sylvia Tait is an established and celebrated Canadian painter and printmaker, born in Montreal. She studied for four years at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under Arthur Lismer, Jacques de Tonnancoeur, and Eldon Grier. There, Tait received three scholarships, the Top Student Award and Honours Diploma.

Since the late 1950s, Tait has exhibited across North America in solo and group shows and has been represented by Bau-Xi Gallery since 1977. Her paintings are in private, corporate and public collections in Germany, Switzerland, France, the USA, Mexico, Ecuador, UAE, Hong Kong, Japan, South Asia and Canada.

Selected collections include: Musée de l'Art Contemporaine, Quebec; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Gordon and Marion Smith Art Gallery; Canadian Music Centre, Toronto and Vancouver; Simon Fraser University, BC; UBC Collection; St. Paul’s, VGH, and Lions Gate Hospitals, BC; Burnaby Art Gallery, BC; West Vancouver Art Museum, BC; Provincial and City ART Collections; Royal Bank of Canada; Toronto Dominion Bank; Pan Pacific Developments; and the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa.

Sylvia Tait won the international art competition for the new Aquatic Center in West Vancouver, BC with AquaScapes, an art piece of enormous proportions. She was also commissioned to create 900 banners for the City of Vancouver and the City of Richmond. Most recently, she was commissioned to create a limited edition fine art print for the West Vancouver Art Museum's Artist Editions Program, the proceeds of which will benefit the WVAM.

Sylvia Tait has lived and worked on Vancouver’s North Shore since 1968.

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48 X 84 in. - $15,400 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Westcoast Suite, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
40 X 52 in. - $8,500 CAD
Sylvia Tait artwork 'September and October' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
48 x 60 in. - $11,800 CAD
Green Conditions
39.5 x 59.75 in. - $9,650 CAD
Sylvia Tait artwork 'Suite Canlandada' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
40 X 48 in. - $7,900 CAD
Sylvia Tait artwork 'A Haiku For Squares and a Triangle' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
33.8 X 35.8 in. - $6,250 CAD
Sylvia Tait - A Season of Connections, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
33 X 36 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Vancouver Tango, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
30 X 40 in. - $5,900 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Ancient Voices, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
36 X 34 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Blackbird Song, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
52 X 40 in. - $9,200 CAD
Break-Away II
48 X 36 in. - $7,800 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Quintet, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
41 X 29.5 in. - $6,000 CAD
Time Piece
41 x 29.75 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Suite Pour La Nuit, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
41.5 x 29.75 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Repertoire, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
41.5 X 29.75 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Music Piece - Agitato, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
41.5 X 29.75 in.
Sylvia Tait - Talking Boxes and Whispers, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
41.25 X 29.75 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Talking Blocks, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
41.5 X 29.75 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Passagalia, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
41 X 29.5 in. - $6,000 CAD
Wind Song
38 X 25.75 in.
Sylvia Tait artwork 'Muted Scales And Chords' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
30 X 22.75 in. - $3,500 CAD
Dark Sounds
30 X 22 in. - $3,500 CAD
Flight
26 X 20 in. - $2,900 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Variations on a Theme-July, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
26 X 20 in. - $2,900 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Variations on a Theme-June, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
20.5 X 26 in. - $3,500 CAD
Anthologies 9
20 X 26 in. - $3,500 CAD
Sylvia Tait artwork 'Anthologies 11' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
20.5 X 26 in. - $3,500 CAD
Sylvia Tait artwork 'Anthologies 12' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
20.5 X 30 in. - $3,300 CAD
Music Is
18.75 X 29.75 in.
Ground Covers
17 X 24 in. - $2,400 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Wall Piece 5, Mixed Media, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
60 x 20 in. - $5,600 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Diary of a Traveller - Monday, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
60 x 20 in. - $5,600 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Diary of a Traveller - Tuesday, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
60 X 20 in. - $5,600 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Diary of a Traveller Wednesday, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
60 X 20 in. - $5,600 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Diary of a Traveller Thursday, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
60 x 20 in. - $5,600 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Diary of a Traveller - Friday, Oil on Canvas, Unframed,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
40 X 30 in. - $5,900 CAD
Sylvia Tait artwork 'Roots to Sky' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
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36 X 48 in. - $7,800 CAD
Saturday's Song
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38 X 25 in. - $4,700 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Chitarra, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
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30 X 22 in. - $3,500 CAD
Tuesday
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30 x 22 in. - $3,500 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Letters and Attachments, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
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30 X 22 in. - $3,500 CAD
Boxing Noises
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40 X 26 in. - $5,200 CAD
Summer Notes
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41.5 X 29.75 in. - $6,000 CAD
Sylvia Tait - Blocking Voices, Acrylic on Archival Paper, Framed in White with Glass,  - Bau-Xi Gallery
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34 X 60 in. - $8,350 CAD
Suite Canlanda
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53.5 X 70.75 in. - $14,700 CAD
Pathways to Sky and Terra
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29.5 X 41 in. - $6,000 CAD
Passacaglia-Street Talk
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30 X 44.5 in. - $7,000 CAD
Duet 1&2
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22 x 30 in. - $3,500 CAD
Now Is The Time
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