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Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer : women wilderness photography

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19772
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
Call Number
06.4 sk3s
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Responsibility
Colleen Skidmore
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
xi, 360 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 26 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mary Schaffer
Photography
Women
Bibliography
History
Abstract
"Mary Scha¨ffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Scha¨ffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Scha¨ffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Author's notes on names
She Who Coloured Slides
Philadelphia, Paris and the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1889-1903
The Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1904-1906
Maligne Lake, 1907-1911
Japan, 1908-1909, and Banff, 1909-1939
Epilogue
Notes
Signed by Colleen Skidmore - dated 09/17
ISBN
978-1-77212-298-5
Accession Number
2019.16
Call Number
06.4 sk3s
Collection
Archives Library
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Unsung : a history of women in American music

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19783
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1980
Author
Ammer, Christine
Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
Call Number
08 Am6u
Author
Ammer, Christine
Responsibility
Christine Ammer
Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
Published Date
1980
Physical Description
x, 317 pages ; 24 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Music
Women
Mills, Ike
History
Abstract
Pertains to Alma (LaPalme) Mills who performed as a cellist as part of the Musical Art Quartet in 1920 and was a pupil of Charlotte White. Alma LaPalme was married to Ike Mills and they resided in Banff (Chapter 3, page 60)
Contents
The First Flowering--At the Organ -- The "Lady Violinists" and Other String Players -- Seated at the Keyboard -- The First "Lady Composers" -- Apartheid--The All-Women's Orchestras -- American Composers in European Idioms -- Grass Roots--Composers in American Idioms -- Opera Composers and Conductors -- Contemporary and Postmodern Idioms--After 1950 -- Electronic Music, Mixed Media, Film, Performance Art -- Today's Orchestras, Conductors, and Instrumentalists -- Teaching Music -- Angels and Advocates -- Women Musicians in Thirteen Major U.S. Orchestras.
ISBN
978-1-48357-699-2
Accession Number
p2019-03
Call Number
08 Am6u
Collection
Archives Library
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Imperial plots : women, land, and the spadework of British colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19784
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Carter, Sarah
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
08.2 Ca24i
Author
Carter, Sarah
Responsibility
Sarah Carter
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
xxii, 455 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Women
Prairies, Canadian
Land use
Agriculture
Abstract
"Sarah Carter's "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, and challenges met by women who sought land of their own. Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the "spade-work" of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its surplus women. Yet far into the twentieth century there was persistent opposition to the idea that women could or should farm: British women were to be exemplars of an idealized white femininity, not toiling in the fields. In Canada, heated debates about women farmers touched on issues of ethnicity, race, gender, class, and nation. Despite legal and cultural obstacles and discrimination, British women did acquire land as homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, and speculators on the Canadian prairies. They participated in the project of dispossessing Indigenous people. Their complicity was, however, ambiguous and restricted because they were excluded from the power and privileges of their male counterparts. Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains, to the land army women of the First World War."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Narrowing opportunities for women : from the indigenous farmers of the Great Plains to the exclusions of the homestead regime -- "Land owners and enterprising settlers in the colonies" : British women farmers for Canada -- Widows and other immigrant women homesteaders : struggles and strategies -- Women who bought land : the "bachelor girl" settler, "Jack" May, and other celebrity farmers and ranchers -- Answering the call of empire : Georgina Binnie-Clark, farmer, author, lecturer -- "Daughters of British blood" or "hordes of men of alien race"? : the homesteads-for-British-women campaign -- The persistence of a "curiously strong prejudice" : from the First World War to the Great Depression.
ISBN
978-0-88755-818-4 pbk
Accession Number
p2019-04
Call Number
08.2 Ca24i
Collection
Archives Library
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Julia : a biography of Julia W. Henshaw

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19805
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Kluckner, Michael
Publisher
[Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
Call Number
08.3 Kl66j
Author
Kluckner, Michael
Responsibility
Michael Kluckner
Publisher
[Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
131 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Henshaw, Julia W.
Women
Authors
Biography
Botany
World War, 1914-1918
Canada
Abstract
"A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, from the Rocky Mountains to England, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the USA are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Prelude
Mrs. Charles Henshaw
Julian Durham
Julia W. Henshaw
Gwen
Captain Julia Henshaw
"Gentle Julia"
Afterword
Key players
Supplementary notes
Bibliography
Index
Notes
Graphic novel with mention of Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Signed copy.
ISBN
978-1-988242-20-0
Accession Number
p2019-25
Call Number
08.3 Kl66j
Collection
Archives Library
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Beyond "the artist's wife": women, artist-couple marriage and the exhibition experience in postwar Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19806
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2013
Author
Mastin, Catharine Margaret
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothe`que et Archives Canada
Call Number
06.1 Ma37b
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Author
Mastin, Catharine Margaret
Responsibility
Catharine Margaret Mastin
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothe`que et Archives Canada
Published Date
2013
Physical Description
358 pages ; PDF format
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Women
Artists
Exhibitions
Thesis
Abstract
When art critic Lucy Lippard named "the artist's wife" to be a socially-assigned identity for female artists in the early 1970s, she understood some of the significance of women's companionship status. This dissertation considers how "the artist's wife" was a diverse and hierarchical problem for six female artists during their efforts to access Canada's postwar exhibition market. Joyce Wieland of Toronto, Ontario, Marion Nicoll of Calgary, Alberta, Mary Pratt of St. John's, Newfoundland, and Kenojuak Ashevak of Cape Dorset, Nunavut all experienced this social phenomenon differently. Because the two studios of Wieland and Pratt were combined with domestic life they were also dubbed "kitchen artists." As Marion Nicoll learned, it took much conviction to pursue an art practice focused on abstract painting in traditional institutional and marital contexts. The category "Eskimo" added racial difference to Kenojuak's creative and marital identities. Frances Loring and Florence Wyle of Toronto were persistently called "the Girls," an identity that underscored their non-compliance with heterosexual marriage. Using feminist theories of sexual difference and representation, and intersecting the traditionally distinct fields of history and art history, this study illuminates that the female artist's companionship status mattered much more than has been historically understood. These artists' experiences provide opportunity to reflect on curatorial practice and subject representation and expose that the solo exhibition cannot be fully separated from the artist-couple exhibition when studying the female artist's exhibition history. Their experiences also make visible that gender and female artist identities, including the category "woman artist," are important when studying the female artist in postwar North American art and marriage histories if the social conditions of women's art production are to be fully understood.
Contents
Abstract
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Chapter One : introduction : beyond "the artist's wife"
Chapter Two : socializing women to marriage : the five artist-couple marraiges of Marion Nicholl, Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt, Frances Loring, Florence Wyle and Kenojuak Ashevak
Chapter Three : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : the experience of abstract painting and the artist-couple marriages of Marion Nicholl and Joyce Wieland, 1959 - 1963
Chapter Four : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt and the identity "kitchen artist" 1963 - 1973
Chapter Five : two more women's "two-man" artist-couple exhibitions : the social emergence of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle as "the girls"
Chapter Six : one women's "two-man" exhibitions : Kenojuak Ashevak's artist-couple exhibitions with Johnniebo Ashevak, 1967 - 1970
Chapter Seven : conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix 1
Copyright permissions
ISBN
978-0-494-89628-0
Accession Number
p2019-26
Call Number
06.1 Ma37b
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online through University of Alberta
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The identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith : portrait of a Metis woman, 1861-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19811
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2012
Author
MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne
Publisher
Regina : CPRC Press
Call Number
08.2 M11t
Author
MacKinnon, Doris Jeanne
Responsibility
Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Publisher
Regina : CPRC Press
Published Date
2012
Physical Description
x, 193 pages : illustrations, facsimile, genealogical table, portraits ; 23 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Women
Metis
Western Canada
Western history
Pincher Creek
Abstract
"This book relates the history and self-identifying process of a Me´tis woman who lived on the western plains of Canada during the transitional period from fur trade to sedentary agricultural economy. Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Me´tis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. Sold by her mother at the age of sixteen to a robe and whiskey trader several years older than her, Marie Rose went on to raise seventeen children, establish a boarding house, take a homestead, serve as medicine woman and midwife, and to publish several articles in the early prairie ranch periodical, Canadian Cattlemen. The author relies on close readings of these articles, as well as the diaries, manuscripts, and fictional writing of Marie Rose Delorme Smith, along with personal interviews with her descendants. These sources allow a close examination of the self-identifying process for Marie Rose as she negotiated the changing environment of the western plains during the late 1800s and early 1900s when large numbers of Anglo-speaking immigrants settled in the area. Clearly proud of her Me´tis identity, Marie Rose was a member of an extended family who served as Louis Riel's soldiers, and she presented that identity tentatively in her own writings. Roles which Marie Rose assumed with pride were those of author, historian, mother, and historical character, and these roles serve as themes from which to examine her life."--Publisher's website.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - the historical character
Chapter 2 - the "historian"
Chapter 3 - the person
Chapter 4 - the author
Conclusion
Appendix 1 - terms and sources
Appendix 2 - descendants of Joseph Henault et Enaud dit Canada
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN
978-0-88977-236-6
Accession Number
2019.33
Call Number
08.2 M11t
Collection
Archives Library
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I'm not myself at all: women, art, and subjectivity in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19835
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Huneault, Kristina
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
06.1 H89i
Author
Huneault, Kristina
Responsibility
Kristina Huneault
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
xiv, 381 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Philosophy
Subjects
Art
Women artists - Canada
Art History
Abstract
Pertains to the ways in which race, gender, colonization and social expectations influenced art produced by women. The location of analysis is specific to Canada, and thus pertains to the Rocky Mountains in the sense that many artists resided in and around the area where the external pressures would have likely been present. The book provides a thorough analysis into the history and philosophy surrounding women’s art, and the external factors that shaped its evolution in Canada.
Contents
Part One: Identities -- Absence: Henrietta Hamilton, Demasduit, and the settler-colonial encounter -- Displacements: Self and home in the art of Frances Anne Hopkins -- Gaps: lived experience and cultural narrative in Helen McNicoll's impressionist canvases -- Part Two: Forces -- Diversity: Identity, difference, and the botanical encounter -- Inclination: Maternity, reverie, and the art of being-with -- Listening: nature and personhood for Emily Carr and Sewin_chelwet (Sophie Frank)
ISBN
9780773553194
Accession Number
2019.46
Call Number
06.1 H89i
Collection
Archives Library
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A timeless Legacy: Women Artists of Glacier National park

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19838
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Ivy, Tabby, Ed Gillenwater, Denny Kellogg and Elizabeth Moss
Publisher
Kalispell, MT : Hockaday Museum of Art
Call Number
06.1 Iv9a
  1 website  
Author
Ivy, Tabby, Ed Gillenwater, Denny Kellogg and Elizabeth Moss
Responsibility
Tabby Ivy, Ed Gillenwater, Denny Kellogg and Elizabeth Moss
Publisher
Kalispell, MT : Hockaday Museum of Art
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
66 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Montana
Glacier National Park
Exhibition catalogue
Art
Subjects
Women artists
Art
Abstract
Pertains to the paintings of Glacier National Park completed by various women. While celebrating the contribution of early settler women, the book also recognizes the work of current women who continue to capture the landscape of Glacier National Park in their art work. Contains both photos and biographies of influential women in both the past, and present who had involvement in Glacier National Park.
Contents
Foreward -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A timeless land -- The birth of a legacy -- Nellie Augusta Knopf (1875-1962) -- Kathryn Woodman Leighton (1875-1952) -- Elsa Laubach Jemne (1888-1974) -- Caroline Gibbons Granger (1889-1949) -- Elizabeth Davey Lochrie (1890-1981) -- Lucile Van Slyck (1898-1982) -- Merle Fisk Olson (1910-1999) -- Celebrating the legacy -- Linda Tippetts -- Carole Cooke -- Kathryn Stats -- Rachel Warner -- Continuing the legacy.
Notes
DVD available with the book
Accession Number
2019.46
Call Number
06.1 Iv9a
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The URL is connected to the Hockaday Museum of Art in which the exhibition was displayed. Offers an insight into the motive and meaning behind the exhibition.
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A timeless legacy 2017: 28 nationally renowned women artists continuing the artistic legacy of Galcier National Park

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19840
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Leigh, Karen
Publisher
Kalispell, Montana: Hockaday Museum of Art
Call Number
06.1 L53a
Author
Leigh, Karen
Responsibility
Karen leigh
Publisher
Kalispell, Montana: Hockaday Museum of Art
Published Date
2017
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Glacier National Park
Art
Exhibition catalogue
Subjects
Women artists
Art
Abstract
Pertains to the stories and artwork of various women in Glacier National Park. Features biographies and the artwork of 28 women who have been inspired by the landscape of Glacier National Park.
Accession Number
2019.46
Call Number
06.1 L53a
Collection
Archives Library
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The artist herself : self-portraits by Canadian historical women artists

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19841
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Boutilier, Alicia and Tobi Bruce
Publisher
Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
Call Number
06.1 B66t
  1 website  
Variant Title
L'artiste elle-me^me : autoportraits de femmes artistes au Canada
Author
Boutilier, Alicia and Tobi Bruce
Responsibility
Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce
Publisher
Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
173 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Subjects
Artists - Canada
Exhibitions
Art
Women artists
Abstract
Drawing upon our fascination with self-portraits, The Artist Herself expands the genre’s definition by moving beyond the human face to propose other forms of self-representation, from both settler and Indigenous perspectives. The result is a thought-provoking selection of 55 works by 42 women artists in a range of media, including paintings, textiles, photographs and film. Both renowned and lesser-known artists are featured: Pitseolak Ashoona, Simone Mary Bouchard, Emily Carr, Paraskeva Clark, Martha Eetak, Artis Lane, Caroline Gros Louis, Alice Egan Hagen, Frances Anne Hopkins, E. Pauline Johnson, Maud Lewis, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Hannah Maynard, Daphne Odjig, Princess Louise, Mary Hiester Reid and Marian Dale Scott. From Johnson’s performance costumes representing her dual Mohawk and Euro-Canadian identity to Carr’s painting of herself from the back at her easel, from Maynard’s playful photographs of her multiple selves to Ashoona’s sly comment on her participation in the Inuit art market, these works open up new avenues of inquiry and new understandings of the realities and perspectives of women in Canadian society before 1970. Most important, the exhibition reveals the ways in which women artists have given profound expression to their identities
Contents
Foreword / Avant-propos -- Lenders / Pre^teurs -- Acknowledgements / Remerciements -- The artist herself = L'artiste elle-me^me / Alicia Boutilier & Tobi Bruce -- Cree dolls / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Elizabeth Simcoe / Erin Wall -- Katherine Jane Ellice / Arlene Gehmacher -- Shanawdithit / Fiona Polack -- Mary Ann Scrimes & Elizabeth Jane Turner / Janice Helland -- Lady Belleau & Lady Glover / Andrea Kunard -- Frances Anne Hopkins & Princess Louise / Kristina Huneault -- E. Pauline Johnson / Carla Taunton -- E. Pauline Johnson / Paula Whitlow -- Hannah Maynard / Jennifer Salahub -- Maud Darling / Jennifer Salahub -- Bertha May Ingle / Mary Thompson & David Beattie -- Mattie Gunterman / Susan Close -- Caroline Gros Louis / Annette de Stecher -- Emily Carr / Lisa Baldiserra -- Martha (Muqyunnik) Eetak / Maureen Matthews -- Marion Long / Janice Anderson -- Margaret Watkins / Mary O'Connor -- Dorothea Mitchell / Kelly Saxberg -- Sylvia Daoust / Joyce Millar -- Paraskeva Clark / Panya Clark -- Pegi Nicol MacLeod / Laura Brandon -- Simone Mary Bouchard / Laurier Lacroix -- Marian Dale Scott / Esther Tre´panier -- Maud Lewis / Erin Morton -- Elizabeth Harrison / Dorothy Farr -- Suzanne Duquet / Miche`le Grandbois -- Artis Lane / Artis Lane -- Molly Lamb Bobak / Amber Lloydlangston -- Cecil Buller / Sandra Dyck -- Jessie Oonark & Inuit Doll / Heather Igloliorte -- Kenojuak Ashevak / Kenojuak Ashevak -- Christiane Pflug / Georgiana Uhlyarik -- Daphne Odjig / Greg Hill -- Margaret Frank & Marion Wilson / Andy Everson -- Pitseolak Ashoona / Norman Vorano -- Exhibition list = Liste des œuvres -- Contributors = Contributeurs.
Notes
Some of the essays are in English, while others are in French
ISBN
9781553394075
Accession Number
2019.46
Call Number
06.1 B66t
Collection
Archives Library
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The URL pertains to the website in which the abstract was drawn from
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