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Barbara Spohr : apparent reasons = raisons apparentes.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25144
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Spohr, Barbara
- Publisher
- Banff, Alb. : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- 06.4 Sp6a
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- Author
- Spohr, Barbara
- Responsibility
- Barbara Spohr
- Publisher
- Banff, Alb. : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 81 pages : illustrations, portraits
- Abstract
- Exhibition catalogue for the 1995 exhibit of Barbara Spohr's show 'Apparent Reasons' at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Contents
- Introduction
- Road trip
- From where she stood
- Barbara Spohr's border crossings
- ISBN
- 0920608418
- Accession Number
- 2021.23
- Call Number
- 06.4 Sp6a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to Banff Centre's Barbara Spohr Memorial Award page - includes biographical information
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Dear Nan : letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25081
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
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- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Responsibility
- Doreen Walker (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- xlvi, 436 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Carr, Emily
- Abstract
- This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr’s career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting – “the biggest thing in my life.” There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience with critics and poseurs, and they give insights into her various relationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, Jack Shadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and Arthur Lismer. Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms shared Emily Carr’s interest in art. Carr’s relationship with Cheney dated back to 1930 but did not flourish until 1937 when Cheney moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to become the first full-time medical artist at UBC. Humphrey Toms was only twenty years old when he first met Emily Carr, having asked to visit her after seeing some of her paintings, following which a warm friendship developed. The correspondence between Cheney and Toms reveals how Carr was regarded at the time and attests to their mutual interest in the Vancouver art scene. As an active member Cheney relates gossip about the local art community, providing a very personal and often exceedingly critical view of the Vancouver art milieu of the time. Doreen Walker has chosen not to change the original text of the letters and includes Carr’s misspellings and grammatical irregularities, which give a feeling of immediacy to the writing. There are numerous examples of her talent for graphic description, how she felt “rag rug level” when depressed and how she “was sat down with a spank” when ill. Perhaps most significant are the many revelations of her deep commitment to her work and of her industry and perseverance despite her failing health. “Queer how we go on,” she wrote to Cheney, “luck there is so much rubber in human composition.” (from UBC Press website)
- Contents
- Foreward Introduction Note on the text Acknowledgements Abbreviations Colour Plates Chronology Illustrations The Letters Postscript Transcription of the Carr Letters Emily Carr’s “Variations” Index
- ISBN
- 9780774803908
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on UBC Press website
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Eskimo prints
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20046
- 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
- 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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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
- 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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Land, spirit, power : First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25118
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Nemiroff, Diana
- Houle, Robert
- Townsend-Gault, Charlotte
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
1 website
- Responsibility
- Diana Nemiroff
- Robert Houle
- Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 231 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada that focussed on art by Indigenous Peoples
- Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- Land, Spirit, Power
- Modernism, Nationalism, and Beyond - a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art - Diana Nemiroff
- The Spiritual Legacy of the Ancient Ones - Robert Houle
- Kinds of Knowing - Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Notes
- Carl Beam
- Rebecca Belmore
- Dempsey Bob
- Domingo Cisneros
- Robert Davidson
- Jimmie Durham
- Dorothy Grant
- Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Faye HeavyShield
- Alex Janvier
- Zacharias Kunuk
- James Lavadour
- Truman Lowe
- James Luna
- Teresa Marshall
- Alanis Obomsawin
- Kay WalkingStick
- Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
- ISBN
- 0888846509
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Gallery of Canada information on exhibition
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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
- 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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Significant treasures = Tre´sors parlants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25084
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1997
- Author
- Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
- Publisher
- Toronto : Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16s
1 website
- Variant Title
- A guide to significant treasures awaiting you in Canada’s museums
- Publisher
- Toronto : Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums
- Published Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- 320 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Abstract
- Summaries of significant artefacts held in museum collections across Canada organized by province and territory. Includes the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Contents
- Foreward Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Atlantic Provinces Newfoundland Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Northwest Territories Yukon Indices
- Notes
- Stoney-Assiniboine beaded moccasins from Morley dated 1895 to 1910 at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies are featured on page 232-233
- ISBN
- 1550565044
- Accession Number
- 6999
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16s
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums website
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Tears for old Lacerta : new poems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19868
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92t Pam
1 website
- Author
- Burles, Gordon
- Responsibility
- Gordon Burles
- Publisher
- Banff, Alta. : G. Burles
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 92 pages
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Art
- Rocky Mountains Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet’s work reflects a somber undertone, and covers topics pertaining to people, places, and nature.
- Notes
- Annotated – the author has signed the front page with the following, “To Liz – best wishes, from Gordon Burles”
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 05.1 B92t Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- The URL is linked to the Gordon Burles fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
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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.
- 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
- 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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