ROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL

Vera Frenkel
Yves Gaucher
Rita Letendre
Guido Molinari
Gordon Smith
Joyce Wieland

Various works

Art in the Hospital
311 Columbia Street, Kamloops

In 2010 The Kamloops Art Gallery created an outreach program in conjunction with Royal Inland Hospital and Friends Kamloops Art Gallery called the “Art in the Hospital” Program.  The Gallery selected contemporary art works in its collection that were acquired from the Canada Council Art Bank to install throughout the hospital. This program was an opportunity to place original works of art in public spaces and to enhance patient well-being in a typically ‘sterile’ hospital environment. The Art in the Hospital artworks include prints by well-known Canadian artists, including Vera Frenkel, Yves Gaucher, Rita Letendre, Guido Molinari, Gordon Smith and Joyce Wieland. The Gallery is currently working with the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation to develop a permanent collection of artworks to be installed in the newly built Patient Care Tower, adjacent to the current hospital.

Rita Letendre, Twilight Phase I, 1971
silkscreen on paper, Artist's Proof
69 cms x 89.5cms
Collection of the Kamloops Art Gallery, gift of Canada Council Art Bank Outreach Program
Photo: Kamloops Art Gallery