This catalogue is an exhaustive list of 13,536 artworks purchased by the Canada Council Art Bank from 1,795 artist between 1972 and 1987. Every work is indexed with title, date, medium, size, #/copies, and art bank inventory number. Artist information includes name, place of residence, year of birth, and year of death if applicable. There is a brief introduction to the index, a list of 127 works repurchased by artists, and a list of all 383 jurors who selected the works for purchase by the Art Bank.

Only artists with British Columbia addresses, or with pre-existing BC Artist index entries, are cross-referenced in BC ARTISTS (per list below) from the 1,795 artists in the Art Bank catalogue.

Editor's note: this is an excellent source of information on artist year and place of birth, which is often hard to find. A number of artist names were also updated. Also, a number of artists that are listed in CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF ORIGINAL PRINTMAKING by Malaspina Printmakers were able to be cross-referenced for the first time. This resulted in a number of those artists being deleted from the artist index, as well as updates being added to many of the other artists in that catalogue.