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Painting in Canada : a history

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20037
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1977
Author
Harper, J. Russell
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
Edition
2d ed.
Call Number
06.1 H11p
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Author
Harper, J. Russell
Responsibility
J. Russell Harper
Edition
2d ed.
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
1977
Physical Description
vii, 463 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Canadian art
Subjects
Art History
Painting
Paintings, Canadian
Abstract
Through a lively combination of entertaining anecdotes, descriptions of the cultural background, biographical accounts, and critical judgement, the reader comes to know intimately the artists, their paintings, and their environments.
Contents
The age of Laval -- Votive painting in New France -- Local painters in New France -- Early painting in British North America -- The aftermath of the Seven Years' War -- British Army topographers in Eastern Canada -- The Golden Age in Quebec: the beginning -- The Golden Age in Quebec: maturity -- Along the Atlantic seaboard -- Portraits for the masses -- Kreighoff and genre in Quebec -- Pre-confederation years in Ontario -- The lure of the West -- The last frozen barrier -- Art in the New Dominion -- The British tradition at confederation -- A news search for Canada -- The dignity of labour -- French academic influences -- Contrasts in Quebec -- Painting as an aesthetic experience -- Nationalism and the 'Group' -- Contemporaries of the 'Group' -- Regionalism in the thirties -- Transformation in the West -- Towards non-objectivity: beginnings -- Reawakening in Montral -- Anglophone revolt in the fifties.
Notes
Abstract taken from Aurora, check link for more details
ISBN
0802022715
Accession Number
2019.61
Call Number
06.1 H11p
Collection
Archives Library
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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art Volume 5, Number 1, 2009

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25122
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Publisher
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Call Number
06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
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Author
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Publisher
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
46 pages ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Volume 5, Number 1
Subjects
Wildlife
Wildlife artists
Art
Art galleries
Artists
Abstract
Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
Contents
Patrons without peer: selections from the McCoy Collection
He speaks for the trees: Dr. Suess and the Lorax
On the natural world
Collection spotlight: Dan Ostermiller's "The Emperor"
Walter Hood to design sculpture trail for museum
Wildlife in American art
Community focus committee: engaging the community
Notes
Features article on page 18 entitled "Looking at Wildlfe - the maturing Carl Rungius" - the National Museum of Wildlife Art holds the largest collection of Carl Rungius pieces in the United States
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1971
Author
Houston, James
Publisher
[Don Mills, Ontario] : Longman Canada
Call Number
06.1 H81e
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Author
Houston, James
Responsibility
James Houston
Publisher
[Don Mills, Ontario] : Longman Canada
Published Date
1971
Physical Description
110 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Baffin Island
Inuit
Art
Subjects
Prints
Abstract
Pertains to the art and inspiration of Canadian artist, James Houston. Houston was an acclaimed designer, educator, filmmaker, children’s author and artist prior to his passing in 2005. He helped to encourage the recognition of Inuit art, as well as introduced printmaking to the Inuit community. The publication covers the journey to printmaking, and the ways he helped encourage a new form of creative expression in various Inuit communities.
Notes
English and French text on same pages in 2 columns.
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
06.1 H81e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
URL provides more information on the Houston families collaborative efforts with Inuit Peoples.
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Expanding horizons : painting and photography of American and Canadian landscape, 1860-1918

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24957
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
Publisher
[Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Call Number
06.1 G11e O.S.
  1 website  
Author
Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
Responsibility
Hilliard T. Goldfarb (editor)
Publisher
[Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
318 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Landscapes
Artists
Photographers
Photography
Exhibitions
Canada
United States
North America
Abstract
Catalogue of an exhibition first held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 18 to Sept. 27, 2009 and then travelling to Vancouver Art Gallery, from Oct. 17, 2009 to Janu. 17, 2010. Issued also in French under title: Grandeur nature : peinture et photographie des paysages ame´ricains et canadiens de 1860 a` 1918.
Contents
Endangered horizons / Nathalie Bondil -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Crossed destinies: manifesting the paths of nationhood in the United States and Canada through Landscapes, 1860-1918 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Flexible frontiers: expansion, contraction, regeneration / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Nature transcendent -- The most northerly horizon / Rosalind Pepall -- The forest, Niagara and the sublime / Franc¸ois-Marc Gagnon -- Works -- The stage of history and the theatre of myth -- Looking at landscape in athe age of environmentalism / Lynda Jessup -- Too silent to be real / Richard Hill -- Works -- Man versus nature -- Painting and photography in British Columbia, 1871-1916: some observations / Ian Thom -- Works -- Nature domesticated -- Word and image: North American landscape in nineteenth-century illustrated publications / Brian Foss -- John Singer Sargent's adventurous summer in the Canadian Rockies: the visit to rh Yoho Valley in 1916 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Works -- The urban landscape -- "To pavements and homesteads here" : landscape, photography, and the transcendence of time and space / Philip Brookman -- Works -- The return of nature -- Introduction -- Works.
ISBN
9782891923347
Accession Number
2019.94
Call Number
06.1 G11e O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Review and synopsis on Canadian Architect website
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Island forest year : Elk Island National Park

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25110
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1979
Author
Griffiths, Deirdre
Publisher
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press
Call Number
13.115 G87i
  1 website  
Author
Griffiths, Deirdre
Responsibility
Deirdre Griffiths
Publisher
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press
Published Date
1979
Physical Description
ix, 257 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
National parks
National parks and reserves
Elk Island National Park
Art
Naturalists
Nature
Abstract
The interaction of plants, animals, landscapes, waterways, and weather forms the enchanting backdrop for the adventures of Deirdre Griffiths as resident naturalist for more than three years in Elk Island National Park. (from University of Alberta Press website)
Contents
The Setting
The Diary
Appendices (annotated checklists)
Notes
Written and illustrated by Deirdre Griffiths
ISBN
0888640609
Accession Number
3154
Call Number
13.115 G87i
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on University of Alberta Press website
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Let the chaps fall where they may

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24967
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1950
Author
Cameron, Stewart
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Cameron Cartoons
Call Number
06 C14l PAM
  1 website  
Author
Cameron, Stewart
Responsibility
Stewart Cameron
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Cameron Cartoons
Published Date
1950
Physical Description
[12] leaves : chiefly ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Cartoons
Calgary Stampede
Art
Abstract
Pertains to twelve cartoons of scenes of the Calgary Stampede drawn by Stewart Cameron
Contents
Brahma Bull Riding (and bull fighter)
Steer Decorating
Calf Roping
Bareback Riding
Steer Riding
Saddle Bronk Riding and Pick-up Men
Square Dancing
Flap-jacks For Free
Start of Chuck Wagon Race (Figure 8 Around Barrels)
Section of Parade
Notes
Includes short biography of artist and explanation of how chuck wagon races occur. Stored in envelope with "Let the Chaps Fall Where They May - complete new series following 'What I saw at the Calgary Stampede' " with cartoon on front, space for address and stamp and Cameron Cartoons contact information
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
06 C14l PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Stewart Cameron's biography on Encyclopedia of Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration
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There is my people sleeping

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25087
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1974
Author
Stump, Sarain
Publisher
Sidney, B.C. : Gray's Pub.
Edition
3rd
Call Number
06.1 St9t copy 2
  1 website  
Variant Title
There is my people sleeping : the ethnic poem-drawings of Sarain Stump
Author
Stump, Sarain
Responsibility
Sarain Stump
Edition
3rd
Publisher
Sidney, B.C. : Gray's Pub.
Published Date
1974
Physical Description
ca. 150 p. : ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Poetry
First Nations
Abstract
Poems and illustrations by Sarain Stump
ISBN
0888260563
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
06.1 St9t copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online via Open Library
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Whispering in my ears and mingling with my dreams

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20044
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1975
Author
Etook, Tivi
Publisher
Ville Saint Laurent, Qu, 1975 : Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec
Call Number
06.1 Et6t
  1 website  
Variant Title
legendes susurrees a mes oreilles s'entremelant a mes reves
Author
Etook, Tivi
Responsibility
Tivi Etook
Publisher
Ville Saint Laurent, Qu, 1975 : Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec
Published Date
1975
Physical Description
44 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Inuit
Art
Abstract
Pertains to the artwork and brief history of Tivi Etook, a Canadian Inuit artist, illustrator and printmaker. The publication includes an interview from Etook, in which he shares details about his life and upbringing as an Inuit man. His art is deeply spiritual, reflecting his cultural roots. Readers can expect to learn more about Inuit culture and tradition, while enjoying the stunning art created by Etook himself.
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
06.1 Et6t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
For access to more of Tivi Etook's art work, follow the URL linked above
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