Exhibited: “Maxwell Bates in Retrospect 1921-1972”; Vancouver Art Gallery, 1973 (Catalogue No. 12).
Note: This design was created while Bates worked for the architect J. Harold Gibbons in London as a proposal for the decorative screen behind a church altar. It was designed in one eighth scale and includes figural religious imagery as well as British heraldry. Bates brought this work with him to Calgary in 1946 following WWII and his release as a Prisoner of War.
