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Personal material and memorabilia [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Series

Date:

1903-2003.

Reference:

R4154-5-9-E

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

162935

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York and Lela Wilson fonds

Personal material and memorabilia
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Series includes:

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

1903-2003.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.65 m of textual records.
2 photographs : b&w.
44 sketchbooks.
254 drawings.
3 autograph.
7 watercolours.
2 reproductions.
13 printing blocks : carved wooden.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Inuktitut

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The series consists of documents relating to York Wilson's personal life. Textual material includes membership cards, passports, receipts from a tour of Asia 1965-1966, and three travel diaries kept by York Wilson during winters spent in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1980-1982. Also included are copies of an 'Art for architecture' class assignment on Wilson's Imperial Oil mural sent to Lela Wilson by teacher Ron Satok in 1979 and miscellaneous clippings about the painter André Lapine, who was a friend of the Wilsons. The files in this series are arranged in chronological order.

In 2005, forty-four sketchbooks, made primarily during world travels, were acquired. The notebooks, together with many loose drawings, include figure studies, architectural sketches, abstract designs, caricatures, cityscapes, landscapes, and costume designs. Some of the countries and areas in which York Wilson made the drawings include Mexico, Guatemala, Italy, Switzerland, Tenerife and the Canary Islands, the Middle East, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Indonesia, Bali and China. Canadian sites include Banff, the Yukon, Whitehorse and the Alaskan highway, Cape Breton and Labrador. The caricatures are small humourous portraits of such friends as Eric Aldwinckle, Edmond Dyonnet, Ernest Fosbery, Theodore Heinrich, Cleeve and Jean Horne, L.A.C. Panton, and Lela Wilson herself. One early sketchbook, dating ca. 1930-1942, contains sketches of family members and the family pet., Further records received in 2006 include several more travel diaries by York Wilson documenting his 'around the world' trip in 1965-1966 and several trips to Mexico and Guatemala (1969-1978), various agendas and calendars from 1969-1997, address books, and records relating to the estate of York Wilson (1984). These additional records are in Volumes 424 to 427 under the Archival Reference number R4154.

Thirteen printing blocks with a Mexican theme were also received and used to print a humorous skirt relating to their stay in San Miguel de Allende.

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Language note:

One page of artist's notes includes a vocabulary in English and Inuktitut.

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530 : Contains printing blocks.
553 : Sketchbooks
554 : Sketchbooks and loose drawings
555 : Sketchbooks and loose drawings

Source:

Private
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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [R4154] 21

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R4154]

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

24;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

424--426;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R4154]

[Consultation 90 Open]

530;

[Consultation 90 Open]

553--556;

[Consultation 90 Open]

596--597;

[Consultation 90 Open]

596 Item no. assigned by LAC 520--522

[Consultation 90 Open]

597 Item no. assigned by LAC 523--525; 531--532

[Consultation 90 Open]

553 Item no. assigned by LAC 116--137

[Consultation 90 Open]

554 Item no. assigned by LAC 138--150; 153; 159--300

[Consultation 90 Open]

555 Item no. assigned by LAC 151--152; 155--158; 301--416

[Consultation 90 Open]

556 Item no. assigned by LAC 516--517; 519; 526--530; 534--536

[Consultation 90 Open]

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