topic:"Biography" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover

Contents: Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 05 B79f

Collection: Archives Library

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Harvest of the spirit : Illingworth Kerr retrospective

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1985

Author: catalogue essay and exhibition production, Maggie Callahan

Publisher: Edmonton : Edmonton Art Gallery

Call Number: 06.1 C13h

Author: catalogue essay and exhibition production, Maggie Callahan

Publisher: Edmonton : Edmonton Art Gallery

Published Date: 1985

Physical Description: 62 p. : ill., port. ; 22 x 26 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Art; Biography; Exhibition catalogue

Subjects: Painting

Abstract: Pertains to the work of Illingworth Kerr, a Canadian western landscape painter. The exhibition and catalogue was intended to celebrate the extensive art career, and 80th birthday of Illingworth Kerr. In an effort to showcase the variety of Kerr’s artistic expression, the exhibition organizer’s divided Kerr’s work into the following categories; landscapes, animal studies, portraits, townscapes, abstracts and automatic paintings. The exhibition organizer, Maggie Callahan, shares a comprehsneive anlalysis of Kerr’s life as an artist and his work over his impressive 60 year career.

Contents: Forword (pg. 2); Curators' notes (pg. 3); Acknowledgements (pg. 4); Essay -; Kerr's youth (pg. 6); Ontario College of Art (1924-27) (pg. 7); Back to the prairies (1927-36) (pg. 16); A decade of wandering (1936-46) (pg. 28); Alberta College of Arts (1947-67) (pg. 32); Kerr today (pg. 42); List of works (pg. 55); Selected bibliography (pg. 59); Chronology (pg. 60); Itinerary (pg. 62)

Notes: Exhibition held at the Edmonton Art Gallery, Mar. 2-Apr. 14, 1985 and other places.

ISBN: 088950041X

Accession Number: 2019.61

Call Number: 06.1 C13h

Collection: Archives Library

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The life and work of an english landscape architect : an autobiography

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1914

Author: Mawson, Thomas H

Call Number: 13.112 M45l Pam

Author: Mawson, Thomas H

Responsibility: by Thomas H. Mawson

Published Date: 1914

Physical Description: 30 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Art; Banff; Biography; Hot spings; Van Horne, William; Whyte, Jon

Notes: Exerpts from the Annual reports of the Department of the interior for the fiscal year ending March 31,1914 ; Taking from new responsibilities ; The Mawson Report in historical perspective by Max Foran ; Thomas H. Mawson's plans for beautifying Banff ; Where man & mountain meet by Jon Whyte; Report compiled in an email by John Whelan

Call Number: 13.112 M45l Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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A Native Heritage

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one large booklet/portfolio containing biographical information, illustrations, and 10 copies of painted colour portraits all pertaining to Indigenous chiefs. Individuals depicted are: Crowfoot [Southern Blackfoot], Old Sun [Northern Blackfoot], Red Crow [Southern Blood tribe], Bul…

Date Range: [1970-1980]

Reference Code: LUX / II / F1 / 55

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Published record; Drawing; Painting

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / F : Collected material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / II / F1 : Textual

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / F1 / 55

GMD: Textual record; Published record; Drawing; Painting

Responsibility: Art produced by Mort Graham

Date Range: [1970-1980]

Physical Description: 0.5 cm of textual records (1 volume ; 38 x 48 cm)

Scope & Content: File consists of one large booklet/portfolio containing biographical information, illustrations, and 10 copies of painted colour portraits all pertaining to Indigenous chiefs. Individuals depicted are: Crowfoot [Southern Blackfoot], Old Sun [Northern Blackfoot], Red Crow [Southern Blood tribe], Bull Head [Sarcee], Eagle Tail [North Piegans], Poundmaker [Cree], Medicine Calf [Southern Blood tribe], Big Bear [Cree], Big Plume [Sarcee], and Pakan [Wood Cree]. Collection also includes historical information pertaining to Indigenous history in Western Canada written by Dr. James G. MacGregor, and a map depicting Indigenous treaty boundaries in and around the Rocky Mountains.