Collection search - Eric Aldwinckle fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

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Eric Aldwinckle fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1925-1976.

Reference:

R5339-0-8-E, MG30-D234

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102315

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Eric Aldwinckle fonds
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Fonds includes:

88 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1925-1976.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

45 cm of textual records.
ca. 175 photographs 135 b&w.
41 prints serigraph, process prints.
19 drawings pencil, coloured pencil, pen and brush and ink.
3 collages cut and paste.
1 watercolour gouache.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal and business correspondence; subject files including material relating to Aldwinckle's trip to the Soviet Union; manuscripts, music sheets by Aldwinckle and Harry Somers, and an interview and notes relating to his art lectures; publications; scrapbooks and clippings containing examples of Aldwinckle's illustrations and a few clippings.

The fonds also includes photographic material depicting Aldwinkle's art work; places in the Soviet Union, especially Moscow, 1954; aerial views of Aldwinkle, England, 1944; and other photographs by the artist taken throughout the course of his career.

Also included are prints and drawings by Eric Aldwinkle throughout his career as a commercial designer and artist including original designs and posters for Toronto General Trusts and the Stratford Festival, and while an instructor at the Ontario College of Art. Other drawings consist of three sketches of All Saints' Church, Aldwinkle, England, as well as drawings executed during a trip to Georgia, U.S.S.R., with Fred Varley, 1956. Additional graphic material includes three cut and paste collages.

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Aldwinckle, Eric

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Aldwinckle, Eric : Eric Aldwinckle, artist, was born in Oxford, England on January 22. He and his family immigrated to Canada in 1922. Largely self-taught, he pursued a career as a graphic artist, landscape and figure painter and muralist. He worked as a freelance graphic designer in Toronto in 1928. He was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Arts and became a member of the Ontario Society of Artists in 1936, when he began teaching at the Ontario College of Art. An amateur actor, he was associated with Hart House. He signed up for the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and was an official war artist with the R.C.A.F. overseas from 1943-1945. He produced many war posters inspired by the Soviet school; in 1944, he served in France and Belgium. When he came home in 1945, he was appointed vice-president of the Ontario College of Art; in 1946, he was named director of the New School of Design.

He was graphic art director for the University of Toronto, 1948-1953, and Stratford Festival, 1955-1959. In 1954 he visited the Soviet Union with artist F.H. Varley. Among Aldwinckle's works are murals completed for Sunnybrook Hospital and York Township Hydro. Over the years, he held various positions at the university and in Toronto art circles, among them the Arts and Letters Clubs Toronto. He died on January 13.

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General note:

Received in 1976 from Eric Aldwinckle.
Subject heading:

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Travel - Soviet Union, 1954 Harry Somers, [1926-1976]

Artists, Canadian, [1931-1976] Two Fables, 1950

Art - Canada, [1931-1976] Varsity Graduate, 1948-1966

Eric Aldwinckle - Correspondence, [1939-1976] The Canadian Graphic Art Year Book, 1931

Eric Aldwinckle - Journeys, 1954 "Lamps", 1939

Soviet Union - Description and travel, 1954 The Canadian Theosophist, 1950

Poets, Canadian - Manuscripts, [1926-1976]

Authors, Canadian - Manuscripts, [1926-1976]

Lectures and lecturing - Canada, [1926-1976]

Theatre programs - Canada, [1931-1975]

Music Canada

Poetry

Christmas cards

Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

Scrapbooks
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1977-027 PIC
1977-040 PIC
1979-173 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D234
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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Box [ALDWINCKLE, ERIC 1979-173]

[Consultation 90 Open]

169;

[Consultation 90 Open]

4412;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [DITCHBURN, JOSEPH SEYMOUR 1979-173] 169

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs (Accession No. 1979-173 NPC): No restrictions on use or access. Copyright: Estate of Eric Aldwinkle. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative number.
Photographs (Accession No. 1977-027 PIC) No restrictions. Copyright: Estate of Eric Aldwinkle. Credit: National Archives of Canada / Copy negative number
Prints, drawings and other graphic material: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright: Estate of Eric Aldwinkle. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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