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James Edward Hervey MacDonald fonds [textual record, graphic material]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:77 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records: (Paper) Finding aid is a descriptive list. MSS308Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS0308
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Record information James Edward Hervey MacDonald fonds [textual record, graphic material]
Date:1899-1968.Reference:R3259-0-5-E, MG30-D111Type of material:Textual material, Art, PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:103624Date(s):1899-1968.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:46.5 cm of textual records.
65 drawings : pencil, watercolour, ink, pastel, charcoal, gold metallic paint.
5 photographs : b&w.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of the James Edward Hervey MacDonald papers which include correspondence and letters from Canadian artists L.L. Fitzgerald, C.W. Jefferys, Arthur Lismer, Frank Johnston and A.Y. Jackson; copies of six letters from Lawren Harris and four letters to various recipients from MacDonald; miscellaneous material relating to A.Y. Jackson; notebooks and diaries; poetry manuscripts; lectures and notes; other manuscripts; and miscellaneous material.
Fonds also consists of drawings by J.E.H. MacDonald.
Photographic material includes various portraits of J.E.H. MacDonald alone or with others; other photographs depict two murals done for a restaurant in or near Bedford, Nova Scotia. Arthur Lismer is likely the artist of the murals.Biography/Administrative history:Macdonald, J. E. H. (James Edward Hervey), 1873-1932 : James Edward Hervey MacDonald, artist, was one of the original members of the Group of Seven. He was trained at the Hamilton Art School 1887-1889 and worked as a commercial artist between 1889 and 1911. From 1921 until his death he taught at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, where he was Principal during his last four years. In 1923, he was art editor of Canadian Forum. Throughout his life, he made numerous painting trips to the Algonquin and Algoma districts of Ontario, to Nova Scotia, the Rockies and the West Indies. MacDonald was also a poet. He published four volumes of poetry, Village and fields (1933), My high horse (ca. 1933), West by east (1933) and A word to us all (1945), as well as contributing to various publications.Additional information:General note:Textual material was received between 1970 and 1974 from J.E.H. MacDonald's son, Thoreau MacDonald of Thornhill, Ontario (the correspondence from A.Y. Jackson and related material coming from Thoreau MacDonald through Dr. Naomi Jackson Groves of Ottawa). The MacDonald letter to Gladys Montgomery was acquired from D. & J. Ritchie, Toronto, in 1992.
One photograph was received by D.J. Ritchies Auction House.
Sketchbook received in 1972 from J.E.H. MacDonald.Availability of other formats note:Drawings: copy negatives available, C-12001 to C-120066.Exhibitions note:Exhibition Title: Tom Thomson. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Ontario; 2002.06.07-2002.09.08
Further Venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia; 2002.10.05-2003.01.05
Further Venue: Musée du Québec, Quebec; 2003.02.06-2003.04.03
Further Venue : Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,Ontario; 2003.05.30-2003.09.07
Further Venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 2003.09.29-2003.12.07.
(Works used in exhibition: "Below the Rapid", "Death of a Friend", "Red, Yellow and Blue")Subject heading:- Group of Seven (Canadian painters)
- Artists - Canada, n.d., 1914-1932 Arts and Letters Club, n.d., 1927-1929
- Artists - Canada - Correspondence, n.d., 1914-1932 Ontario College of Art, n.d., 1922-1931
- Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald, n.d. Paris Salon, 1909
- C.W. Jefferys - Correspondence, 1931 Canadian Society of Graphic Art, 1918
- Arthur Lismer - Correspondence, 1918-1919
- Frank H. (Francis Hans) Johnston - Correspondence, 1922
- A.Y. (Alexander Young) Jackson - Correspondence, 1914-1924
- Yoshida Sekido - Correspondence, 1929
- Lawren Harris - Correspondence, 1916-1919
- Railroads - Passes, 1899
- J.E.H. (James Edward Hervey) MacDonald - Diaries, n.d., 1925-1930
- Mural painting and decoration, n.d., 1925-1930
- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.)
- Poetry
Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG30-D111 -
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