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100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14018
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Forster, Merna
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Call Number
- 08.1 F77
- Author
- Forster, Merna
- Responsibility
- by Merna Forster ; foreword by Julie Payette
- Publisher
- Toronto : Dundurn
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 408 p. : ill., ports.
- Subjects
- Women
- Schaffer Mary
- Parker, Elizabeth
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references:
- ISBN
- 9781554889709
- Accession Number
- 8175
- Call Number
- 08.1 F77
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Adding gender to the archival contextual turn : the Rocky Mountain photographic records of Mary Schaffer Warren
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15207
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Rutkair, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : Jennifer Rutkair
- Call Number
- 06.4 R93a
- Author
- Rutkair, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Winnipeg : Jennifer Rutkair
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- v, 131 pages, illustrations (colour), map
- Accession Number
- 2016.8617
- Call Number
- 06.4 R93a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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An adventurous woman abroad : the selected lantern slides of Mary T. S. Schaffer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14122
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Lang, Michale
- Publisher
- Victoria B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books; copyright Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1a
- Author
- Lang, Michale
- Responsibility
- Michale Lang
- Publisher
- Victoria B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books; copyright Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 275 p. : col. ill., maps, ports
- Series
- The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies presents
- Subjects
- Asia
- Exploration
- First Nations
- Jasper
- Women
- Notes
- Includes magic lantern slide show scripts "In the heart of the Canadian Rockies with horse and camera, part I and part II" by Mary S. Warren. Most images used in book were scanned from original lantern slides taken or collected by Mary Schaffer Warren
- ISBN
- 978-1-926855-21-9
- Accession Number
- gratis - Reference copy 2012
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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An intrepid adventurer and climber : Gertrude Benham, 1867-1938, bucket list
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15251
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.01, 2016
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.01, 2016
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- p.26-27
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Army Daze : from Cranbrook to Apeldoorne : life in a man's army
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15438
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Boileau, Doris Ann
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Aldridge Street Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63ar
- Author
- Boileau, Doris Ann
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Aldridge Street Publishing
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 123 p : illustrations, portraits
- Subjects
- History
- World War II
- Women in war
- ISBN
- 9780986810503
- Accession Number
- 2017.8661
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63ar
- 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
- 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
- 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 Å“uvres -- 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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Banff and Lake Louise Slide Show - Series III [1/2]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions1851
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1977 into a show from slides pertaining to various summertime trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Topics include mountains [mostly those located around the town of Banff], mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, …
- Date Range
- [ca. 1960-1977]
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / ii / NS - III / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Transparency
80 images
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- II.C. Activities / photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V225
- Sub-Series
- ii.a.ii Photographic material / transparencies / carousels
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / ii / NS - III / 1
- GMD
- Film
- Transparency
- Parallel Title
- Selected C R series 3 Reel 1 show Sept 1977. -- [before 1977] V225 / 23
- Date Range
- [ca. 1960-1977]
- Physical Description
- 80 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 80 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1977 into a show from slides pertaining to various summertime trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Topics include mountains [mostly those located around the town of Banff], mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, Lillian and her friends, lakes, boats, fishing, hiking, and various other scenic views around Banff, Lake Louise, and Moraine Lake. Titles: 1. B32-15 Garden & Main St. Banff 2. B162-3 Boat House & reflections 3. R160-31 Banff Springs Hotel 4. R160-38 [Banff Springs Hotel] fr. Spray R. & flag 5. R159-4 Pool, lawn & Bow V. 6. R202-18 Conservatory 7. R202-19 [Conservatory] 8. R261-34 Fr. [Conservatory] & flowers 9. R161-33 Fr. [Conservatory] & Louize[?] 10. R202-22 [Fr. Conservatory & Louize[?]] 11. R161-8 Terrace & pool fr. fire escape 12. R160-35 Swim Pool 13. R160-5 Diving Board 14. R162-17 Bow Falls 15. R202-14 [Bow Falls] 16. R202-15 [Bow Falls] 17. R162-26 Boys fishing across river 18. B14-4 Boom Lake 19. R162-7 On Rundle saddle L.G 20. R167-33 Mt Louis & snow 21. B11-13 Old L.L. Rd. fr. Trans Canada 22. R158-6 Train approaches Canmore 23. R168-8 Norquay Ski Lift 24. R168-12 Nick[?] on Ski Lift 25. R168-10 Eliz Brett on Lift 26. R189-24 Ted Goodall 27. C.H. 49 Middle Section Two Jack Lake 28. C.H. 56 Lake Minnewanka fr. shoulder Cascade 29. R162-9 L.G on Little Rundle 30. 0 Banff fr. Tunnel 31. B52-11 View fr. Sulphur Mt. 32. B75-5 View of valley fr. Sulphur Mt. 33. R161-2 Pool & Rundle 34. B48-6 To Grassis Lookout 35. R160-29 The Pool 36. R160-27 Gardens 37. B29-4 Bldgs on Sulphur 38. B29-7 On Sulphur Mt. 39. B29-8 [On Sulphur Mt.] 40. B27-23 Canadian on curve 41. B27-26 Canadian on curve 42. R195-32 Stampede 43. R196-33 BSH India 44. B30-17 Indigenous 45. B10-23 Indigenous person on horse in front of tepee 46. R159-10 Lake Louise (tree to left) 47. R159-30 Chateau & boat fr. east shore 48. R169-5 Abbot Pass 49. R207-27 [Abbot Pass] Hut 50. Reel 94-14 Goodsirs across Wenchemna Pass 51. C.H. 6/70 Ten Peaks 52. A14-8 4 Peaks & Moraine L. 53. R141-4? Moraine L. Reflections Polly 54. R183-21 Shore Moraine Lake 55. R141-3 Moraine Lake Reflections Polly 56. R207-7 H.G. Edw. & PKs4-7 57. B2-27 L.C at Moraine Lake sitting 58. B2-26 [L.C at Moraine Lake] standing 59. B2-28 Moraine L. & far pt of Moraine 60. R207-4 H.G at Moraine 61. B1-32 Moraine & Mt. Little & 3 62. R207-5 H.G at Moraine 63. B28-31 Harry West & friend at Moraine L. 64. B22-15 L.G Moraine L 65. B22-14 Eleanor Hammilton, Moraine L. 66. R94-3 Glaciers on Moraine Peaks 67. B22-11 Quadra & Babek fr, road 68. B22-17 Trail to Consolation L. 69. B28-13 At Consolation Lake 70. B28-34 Stream fr. [Consolation Lake] 71. B15-20 Marmot [Consolation Lake] 72. R95-7 On trail - Mt Fay in b.g. 73. R141-6 L.G. Larch V. 74. R141-5 3 girls [Larch V.] 75. R141-8 Lefroy fr. Sentinel Pass 76. R141-30 Polly on [Sentinel Pass] 77. A10-13 Moose Larch V. 78. B12-32 Deer 79. R202-30 Deer 80. R178-30 Aileen 0 Mt. Averdeen in b.g
- Notes
- Please note: Language used pertaining to First Nations people is outdated and offensive Please note: Behavior towards wildlife, primarily human proximity and feeding, is outdated and no longer tolerated throughout all National Parks - do not feed or approach wildlife. Slides originally in Kodak Carousel 80 slide tray.
- Name Access
- Gest, Lillian
- Hinman, Caroline
- Goodall, Ted
- Subject Access
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Activities
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Animals
- Avalanches
- Backpacking
- Banff
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Birds
- Boats
- Boat House
- Cabins and shelters
- Calgary Stampede
- Canoes and canoeing
- Climbing
- Club
- Elk
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- First Nations
- Flowers
- Geography
- Glaciers
- Guides
- Guiding
- Hiking
- Holidays
- Horses
- Huts
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake O'Hara region
- Landscapes
- Leisure
- Mountain
- Mountain Goat
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- National parks and reserves
- Norquay Ski Hill
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Pack trains
- Pack trips
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Portrait
- Recreation
- Scenery
- Stoney Nakoda First Nations
- Tavel
- Trails
- Trains
- Travel
- Wildlife
- Women
- Geographic Access
- Boom Lake
- Kootenay National Park
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Banff National Park
- Canmore
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Slides rehoused into protective sleeves and acid-free folders after scanning.
- Related Material
- M67 / II / C / i / c / 56 - 5 ; M67 / 51 [notebook of original slide orders]
- Creator
- Gest, Lillian
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Banff and Lake Louise Slide Show - Series III [1/2]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions1852
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 40 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1977 into a show from slides pertaining to various summertime trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Topics include mountains [mostly those located around the town of Banff], mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, …
- Date Range
- [ca. 1960-1977]
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / ii / NS - III / 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Transparency
80 images
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Lillian Gest fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M67 / S36 / V225
- Series
- II.C. Activities / photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V225
- Sub-Series
- ii.a.ii Photographic material / transparencies / carousels
- Accession Number
- 5142
- Reference Code
- V225 / II / C / ii / a / ii / NS - III / 2
- GMD
- Film
- Transparency
- Parallel Title
- Selected slides series III Can R reel II show Fall 1977. -- [before 1977] V225 / 24
- Date Range
- [ca. 1960-1977]
- Physical Description
- 40 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 40 slides assembled by Lillian Gest in 1977 into a show from slides pertaining to various summertime trips to the Canadian Rockies throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Topics include mountains [mostly those located around the town of Banff], mountain views, wildflowers, wildlife, Lillian and her friends, lakes, boats, fishing, hiking, and various other scenic views around Banff, Lake Louise, and Moraine Lake. Titles: 1. R178-7 L.G at Crowfoot GLacier 2. B28-29 Mt Aberdeen - girls on rocks 3. B28-30 Rainbow at L.L. 4. B74-23 Abbots Pass 5. B73-38 Horses at Mirror Lake 6. CH '49 Birds nest, portrait lens 13in 7. CH Ducks nest 8. CH '51 Birds nest 9. CH '51 Chalice cup 10. R171-8 Calice cup 11. CH White vetch 12. CH '51 Turks cap lily Toby Creek 13. CH Vetch 14. CH Black Hornets 15. CH Nest of Black Hornets 16. CH Moth on pink flower 17. CH '58 Butterfly blue green & black border 18. CH '58 [Butterfly] yellow w. [black] spots 19. CH '58 [Butterfly] black & white 20. CH Pink heather 21. CH Calypso - Rungius 22. CH Purple Hedysarum 23. CH '51 Purple Hedysarum 24. R169-23Avalanche lily 25. CH '56 Flower gardens on island Palliser Pass 26. CH '55 Corral Creek 27. B31 19 Ski meet - View towards L.L. 28. B31 20 [Ski meet] Trail until flower 29. B31 21 [Ski meet] Horse on glacier 30. B31 22 Ski meet - crowd on rock 1960 31. B31 23 Skiers on snow 32. B31 24 Ski meet 33. B31 25 [Ski meet] & slopes Abbot Pass in b.g 34. B31 26 [Ski meet] 35. B31 27 Slalom poles & skiers 36. B31 28 [Slalom poles & skiers] 37. B31 29 [Slalom] slope 38. B31 30 [illegible] 6 people 39. B31 15 Flowers - stone crop 40. B31 32 Watyeks 8 people 41. B31 33 Teepees in meadow 42. B31 38 MacArthur & reflections 43. Reel 99-17 [Blank] 44. B73 29 Mary at Lake 45. B72 38 Icefield Chalet 46. B1 36 Tourists at Peyto Lookout 47. B2-10 Canyon at Bow Lakes 48. R179-3 Murray [illegible] fishing chephroe[?] 49. R175 5 Mt Shaeffer from Moose Lake 50. B2-17 MSC & Polly at Mary Lake 51. B2-21 Pool near Mary Lake 52. B2-15 [Pool near Mary Lake] 53. B2-8 Coveney on Trail Bow L. 54. R178-14 Bow Lake 55. R106-9 [Bow Lake] 56. R178-8 [Bow Lake] 57. B9-11 Numtijah Lodge 58. B9-10 Bow Lakes 59. B73-16 Mitchell Hut 60. B73-14 Skyline Camp 61. B30-38 Edw & Martha 62. B23-14 2 on rock 63. B23 23 Party on Opabin 64. B23-1 O'Hara & cabins 65. B23-25 Frozen L. Opabin 66. B23-24 Two & lake frozen 67. B23-27 L.G - opabin 68. B23-32 Fr Goat Cabin I 69. B24-11 Crowd oesa 70. B24-12 Vallances oesa 71. B24-14 Oesa frozen & L.G 72. B24-16 [illegible] on Oesa Ledges 73. B24-18 Falls near Oesa 74. B24-9 Enroute to oesa 75. B24-22 A at oesa frozen 76. B269-13 Party at Schafer cairn 77. B24-26 Party & Ringrose 78. B24-31 Water Lake & fishermen 79. B25-6 O'Hara fr. odaray 80. B24-30 Aileen, lake & odaray
- Notes
- Please note: Behavior towards wildlife, primarily human proximity and feeding, is outdated and no longer tolerated throughout all National Parks - do not feed or approach wildlife. Slides originally in Kodak Carousel 80 slide tray.
- Name Access
- Gest, Lillian
- Hinman, Caroline
- Rungius, Carl
- Vallance, Sydney
- Subject Access
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Activities
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Animals
- Avalanches
- Backpacking
- Banff
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Birds
- Boats
- Boat House
- Cabins and shelters
- Camps
- Canoes and canoeing
- Climbing
- Club
- Elk
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- First Nations
- Flowers
- Geography
- Glaciers
- Guides
- Guiding
- Hiking
- Holidays
- Horses
- Huts
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake O'Hara region
- Landscapes
- Leisure
- Mountain
- Mountain Goat
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- National parks and reserves
- Norquay Ski Hill
- Outfitters, trail guides and packers
- Pack trains
- Pack trips
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Portrait
- Recreation
- Scenery
- Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Skyline Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies
- Stoney Nakoda First Nations
- Tavel
- Trails
- Trains
- Travel
- Wildlife
- Women
- Geographic Access
- Boom Lake
- Kootenay National Park
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Moraine Lake
- Bow Lake
- Banff National Park
- Canmore
- Lake O'Hara
- Yoho National Park
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Slides rehoused into protective sleeves and acid-free folders after scanning.
- Related Material
- M67 / II / C / i / c / 56 / 6 ; M67 / 51 [notebook of original slide orders]
- Creator
- Gest, Lillian
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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The Benham bucket list
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15401
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.01, 2017
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.01, 2017
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- p.26-27
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Call Number
- P
- 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
1 website
- 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
- 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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