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Artists, architects & artisans : Canadian art 1890-1918

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2013
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
Call Number
06 Ar8a
Responsibility
general editor, Charles C. Hill ; with essays by Christine Boyanoski, Andrea Kunard, Laurier Lacroix, Rosalind Pepall, Bruce Russell, Geoffrey SimminsCanadian art 1890-1918
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
Published Date
2013
Physical Description
339 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Architecture
Art
Artists
Artists books
Canada
Mawson, Thomas
Photographers
Notes
Exhibition catalogue
Issued also in French under title: Artistes, architectes & artisans, l'art canadien 1890-1918
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918, organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from 8 November 2013 to 2 February 2014"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and an index
Introduction / Charles C. Hill -- The pursuit of art and the flourishing of aestheticism amidst the everyday affairs of mankind / Laurier Lacroix -- Arts and crafts traditions in the Canadian domestic interior / Rosalind Pepall -- Artists, architects and artisans at home / Christine Boyanoski -- Art's 'renewed nearness to life': reflections on the unity of the arts in Canada / Geoffrey Simmins -- Ecclesiastical patronage in Canada: from the Gothic Revival to the arts and crafts movement / Bruce Russell -- For an integration of the arts / Charles C. Hill -- A harmony of the arts: the diverse expressions of pictorialism / Andrea Kunard -- Competing visions for redesigning the Canadian city: architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture, 1893-1918 / Geoffrey Simmins
ISBN
9780888849151
Accession Number
2015.8517
Call Number
06 Ar8a
Collection
Archives Library
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At home in nature : a life of unknown mountains and deep wilderness

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Wood, Robert Julian
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Call Number
G512 A84 W66
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Author
Wood, Robert Julian
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Architecture
Autobiography
Alberta
British Columbia
Abstract
Rob Wood grew up in a village on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, where he eventually developed a preoccupation with rock climbing. After studying architecture for five years at the Architectural Association School in London, England, he made his way to Montreal and ended up in Calgary. During his time in Calgary, Rob became a pioneer of ice climbing and posted numerous first ascents in the Rockies during the early 1970’s. Eventually, life in corporate Alberta proved unfulfilling and Rob realized that he needed to find a place where he could reconnect with nature, which brought him to the remote reaches of Canada’s West Coast. Settling on Maurelle Island, he and his wife built an off-the-grid homestead and focussed on alternative communities and developing a small house-design practice specializing in organic and wholesome building techniques. At Home in Nature is a gentle and philosophical memoir that focuses on living a life deeply rooted in the natural world, where citizens are connected to the planet and individuals work together to help, enhance and make the world a better — and sustainable — place. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Leaving the old country
Allegiance to nature
Settling down
Cosmic shack
Back to the land community
Island schooling
Domestic animals
Wild animals
Fiordland boat
Mystery mountain
Deep wilderness
Cancer
Aorta attack
Outer islands community
Off-grib homestead
Organic house
Heavy weather
Flight of the imagination
Legend of Kayak Bill
Whirlpools in the tide
ISBN
9781771602501
Accession Number
A639
Call Number
G512 A84 W66
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Summary on Rocky Mountain Books
Websites
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Date
1925 – 1929
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.868
Description
Boxed off is a study of balance. There are six separate drawings to emphasis balance in architecture, specifically windows. Each one has a number and their style written below: “II ITALIAN BROCADES”, “V MARBLE INLAID”, “IV ITALIAN BROCADES”, “III FRENCH GOTHIC”, “VIII HARP LUTE”, and “VIII ENGLISH …
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Artist
Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)
Title
Balance
Date
1925 – 1929
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
36.3 x 25.3 cm
Description
Boxed off is a study of balance. There are six separate drawings to emphasis balance in architecture, specifically windows. Each one has a number and their style written below: “II ITALIAN BROCADES”, “V MARBLE INLAID”, “IV ITALIAN BROCADES”, “III FRENCH GOTHIC”, “VIII HARP LUTE”, and “VIII ENGLISH GUITAR”. In the TRC “EB B-”, and it is signed by Peter near the BRC.
Subject
balance
Gothic
English Guitar
Harp Lute
French Gothic
Italian Brocades
Marble Inlaid
window
architecture
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
WyP.03.868
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Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928

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Artist
Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)
Date
c. 1928
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
JkR.02.03
Description
A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of …
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Artist
Richard Jack (1866 – 1952, Canadian)
Title
Banff, Highland Gathering, Sept. 3-5, 1928
Date
c. 1928
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.5 x 60.3 cm
Description
A Scottish Highland gathering taking place on the grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel. In the foreground are men in traditional Scottish dress. To the left of the image is a bagpiper. In the background on the right side of the image is the Banff Springs Hotel. A crowd is gathered at the edge of an open space where the men in kilts are standing. Mount Rundle rises up behind the Hotel. A flagpole, trees and coloured tents are dispersed through the crowd in the middle of the painting.
Subject
architecture
Banff Springs Hotel
landscape
Canadian Rockies
activity
Highland Gathering
Credit
Gift of Joan Fitt, Calgary, 2001
Catalogue Number
JkR.02.03
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Part Of
Norman Bethune Sanson fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of a scrapbook that contains postcards and photographs of bridges from throughout England, the United States of America, and Canada.
Date Range
1909-1931, [n.d.]
Reference Code
M3 / 30
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Scrapbook
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Part Of
Norman Bethune Sanson fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M3 / V246
Sous-Fonds
M3
Sub-Series
2. Postcards, n.d.
Accession Number
181
Reference Code
M3 / 30
GMD
Scrapbook
Date Range
1909-1931, [n.d.]
Physical Description
3.5 cm of textual records (94 pages ; 29.5 x 37 cm)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File consists of a scrapbook that contains postcards and photographs of bridges from throughout England, the United States of America, and Canada.
Subject Access
Postcards
Family and personal life
Travel
Architecture
Bridges
Trains
Geographic Access
England
United Kingdom
United States of America
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Language
English
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
Electronic Resources
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Cabin at Lake O'Hara

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Artist
Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)
Date
1925
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
AbM.02.01
Description
General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey…
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Artist
Marion Boyd Allen (1862 – 1941, American)
Title
Cabin at Lake O'Hara
Date
1925
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
20.2 x 25.6 cm
Description
General colours: brown, green, purple and red. Central image is a log cabin coming out from left side. The front door is framed on either side by colourful hanging clothes and Aivo chairs, one on each side. In the background to the right is another cabin. Behind and above are trees, a patch of grey sky in the upper right corner and a purple mountain face in the upper left.The painting was originally given by the artist, to Syd Graves (who managed Lake O’Hara for many years). It was then given to Bill Brewster, who gave it to Rita Crick, who gave it to the Peter Whyte Gallery.
Subject
architecture
cabin
landscape
Canadian Rockies
Lake O'Hara area
Credit
Gift of Rita Crick, 1978
Catalogue Number
AbM.02.01
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Volland, Jennifer M. (editor), Bruce Grenville (editor), Stephanie Rebick (editor)
Publisher
Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Art Gallery : Information Office
Call Number
06.5 Vo88c
Author
Volland, Jennifer M. (editor), Bruce Grenville (editor), Stephanie Rebick (editor)
Responsibility
Edited by Jennifer M. Volland, Bruce Grenville, Stephanie Rebick
Publisher
Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Art Gallery : Information Office
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
309 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Cabins
Cabins and shelters
Architecture
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogue
History
Abstract
"Cabin Fever traces the tradition of the cabin in Canada and the United States--from the settlement of the frontier to the contemporary depictions feverishly circulated across the Internet--showing how this humble architectural form has been appropriated for its symbolic value and helped shape a larger cultural identity. The exhibition title is borrowed from the idiomatic expression for an anxious state of mind resulting from a prolonged stay in a remote or confined place. But it also plays upon the more consumer-driven definition of "fever:" a contagious, usually transient, fascination with an object of desire. Cabin Fever will offer a historical and cultural survey of the cabin in North America, an acknowledgement of the pervasive influence of this typology. Not only has the cabin survived in various forms and iterations, but it also has resonated deeply in our cultural psyche."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Essay on architecture / Marc-Antoine Laugier -- My saga - Part 1 / Karl Ove Knausgaard -- Ways of life in cold climates the north American subarctic / Jean-Luc Pilon -- The log cabin in America : From pioneer days to the present / C. A. Weslager -- Homesteading / Jennifer M. Volland -- A new home, who'll follow? Or, glimpses of western life / Caroline M. Kirkland -- Unsettling the frontier / Dawn E. Keetley -- Demogracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Roughing it / Mark Twain -- The problem of housing the negro : The home of the slave / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Railway cabins / Stephanie Rebick -- The industrial archaelogy of the organization of work / Dianne Newell -- Housing reconstruction after the catastrophe / Marie Bolton and Nancy C. Unger -- Fire lookouts / Jennifer M. Volland -- Mid-August at sourdough mountain lookout / Gary Snyder -- Alone on a mountain top / Jack Kerouac -- The journey home : Fire lookout : Numa Ridge / Edward Abbey -- Alpine huts / Jennifer M. Volland -- The disaster point hut / Helen A. Burns -- Ice huts / Photographs by Richard Johnson -- Walden; or, life in the woods / Henry David Thoreau -- Pond scum : Henry David Thoreau's moral myopia / Jathryn Schulz -- Structures in state parks-An apologia / Herbert Maier and A. H. Good -- Conrad Meinecke's your cabin in the woods / Stephanie Rebick -- Everything cold is new again / Michael Prokopow -- Ideas of north; Glenn Gould and the aesthetic of the sublime / Anyssa Neumann -- The modern cabin / Photographs by Julius Shulman -- Mail-order modern / David Hill -- A-Frame / Chad Randl -- Drop city / Peter Rabbit -- Drop city revisitied / Simon Sadler -- Understanding whole systems : Countercultural publications / Stephanie Rebick -- Urban renewal : Ghost traps, college, condos, and squats / Scott Watson -- The writer's cabin / Jennifer M. Volland -- The small cabin / Margaret Atwood -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard -- To Louis Ginsberg [Paterson, NJ] July 10, 1974 / Allen Ginsberg -- Woodswoman / Anne LaBastille -- The terror and tedium of living like Thoreau / Diana Saverin -- Cabin fever / Mark Wigley -- The cabin on the screen : Defining the "Cabin Horror" film / Matthew Grant -- Why look at cabin porn? / Finn Arne Jørgensen -- The log cabin campaign : Image deception in 1840 / Steven Seidman -- Lincoln logs-Toying with the frontier myth / Erin Cho -- Living history sites / Jennifer M. Volland -- How to build a community / Zach Klein -- Airbnb and cabin mania / Stephanie Rebick -- The sinister truth behind cabin porn / Akiva Blander -- Eye candy : Recent publications on cabins / Jennifer M. Volland -- A place of my own : The architecture of daydreams / Michael Pollan -- Getting off the grid : A re-examination of the writer's cabin / Allison Geller -- The aesthetics of ruggedness / Stephanie Rebick -- Proposal for Kimball art center / Jennifer M. Volland -- High-tech companies, low-tech offices / Monica Kim -- Partisans, grotto sauna / Jennifer M. Volland -- Sustainable practices / Stephanie Rebick -- Mattie Gunterman -- Dorothea Lange -- Walker Evans -- Vikky Alexander -- Liz Magor -- James Benning.
ISBN
978-1-927656-39-6
Accession Number
2019.25
Call Number
06.5 Vo88c
Collection
Archives Library
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Calgary Heritage Authority Annual Report 2010

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2010
Author
Calgary Heritage Authority
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Calgary Heritage Authority
Call Number
08.2 C11c PAM
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Author
Calgary Heritage Authority
Responsibility
Lesley Beale
Joni Carroll
Sarah Meilleur
Clea Sturgess
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Calgary Heritage Authority
Published Date
2010
Physical Description
38 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
History
History of Alberta
Buildings
Research
Architecture
Abstract
Pertains to built heritage resources in the city of Calgary as of 2010 - includes photographs, timelines, maps, recommendations
Contents
Executive Summary
Identify Protect Manage
Looking Back
Who We Are
Implementing
Saving Places
Reaching Out
Raising Awareness
Acknowledging
Funding
Identifying Places
Notes
Table of Contents page has information about James Langlands Thomson who also sculpted the faces on the Banff stone bridge.
Accession Number
2019.98
Call Number
08.2 C11c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Final 2012 version of report available online via the Calgary Heritage Authority
Websites
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Artist
Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)
Date
c. 1930
Medium
oil on canvas
Catalogue Number
BwB.02.03
Description
General colour: blue, green, red brown. In the lower third are buildings and a road. The building in the center flies a flag. Behind the town of Banff are trees and a mountain rises up to a peak right of center at the top. Clouded sky comes down with sides a third.
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Artist
Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954, American)
Title
Cascade Mountain
Date
c. 1930
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
45.5 x 61.0 cm
Description
General colour: blue, green, red brown. In the lower third are buildings and a road. The building in the center flies a flag. Behind the town of Banff are trees and a mountain rises up to a peak right of center at the top. Clouded sky comes down with sides a third.
Subject
mountain
architecture
Rocky Mountains
Cascade Mountain
urban
Banff
Credit
Gift of Mrs J. C, Reed, 1972
Catalogue Number
BwB.02.03
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Cathedrals of Southern England Scrapbook

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Part Of
Norman Bethune Sanson fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of a scrapbook that contains postcards and photographs of churches and cathedrals from around southern England. Includes scenic views from inside and outside the buildings as well as details like pews, book collections, carved details, fonts, and painted murals.
Date Range
1909-1931, [n.d.]
Reference Code
M3 / 29
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Scrapbook
  1 image     1 Electronic Resource  
Part Of
Norman Bethune Sanson fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M3 / V246
Sous-Fonds
M3
Sub-Series
2. Postcards, n.d.
Accession Number
181
Reference Code
M3 / 29
GMD
Scrapbook
Date Range
1909-1931, [n.d.]
Physical Description
3.5 cm of textual records (58 pages ; 31 x 37 cm)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File consists of a scrapbook that contains postcards and photographs of churches and cathedrals from around southern England. Includes scenic views from inside and outside the buildings as well as details like pews, book collections, carved details, fonts, and painted murals.
Subject Access
Postcards
Family and personal life
Travel
Churches
History
Architecture
Geographic Access
England
United Kingdom
Language
English
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
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