Collection search - Yvonne McKague Housser fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Yvonne McKague Housser fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1914-1983.

Reference:

R2413-0-7-E, MG30-D305

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102339

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Yvonne McKague Housser fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1914-1983.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

35.5 cm of textual records.
91 photographs b&w and col.
228 drawings various media.
1 print silkscreen.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence including letters from other artists, 1924-1982; painting and teaching material, 1918-1982; financial records, 1930-1982; Frederick Broughton Housser series, 1932-1936; journals, 1921-1982; autobiography, incomplete manuscript reminiscences; miscellaneous personal material, [ca. 1929-1939]; printed material including a copy of Northward Journal containing a section devoted to Housser and clippings of reviews and articles about her, [ca. 1920-1984].

Fonds also consists of 91 photographs, 1914-1981, which are snapshots, publicity photos and studio portraits relating to the personal and professional life of artist Yvonne McKague Housser.

Fonds also consists of 226 artworks, [ca. 1921-1950], the majority of which were done by Yvonne McKague Housser during her days as a student.

Provenance:

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Housser, Yvonne McKague, 1898-1996

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Housser, Yvonne McKague, 1898-1996 : Yvonne McKague Housser (b. 1898, Ontario), artist, studied at the Ontario College of Art, 1915-1920, stayed on to teach for a year, and then studied in Paris, 1921-1922. On her return to Canada, Housser resumed teaching at the Ontario College of Art under Arthur Lismer and first exhibited her work with the Royal Canadian Academy in 1923 and the Ontario Society of Artists in 1924, later becoming a member of both these organizations.

Housser rejoined the staff of the Ontario College of Art in 1925 after a year in Europe. She was associated, along with Lismer, with the dissident Art Students' League formed in 1926, but stayed on at the College. She exhibited in three Group of Seven Shows, 1928-1931. She studied child art with the celebrated teacher Franz Cizek in Vienna, 1930. She made sketching trips to Northern Ontario in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. In 1939, Housser went to Taos, New Mexico, with Isabel McLaughlin to study dynamic symmetry under Emil Bisttram.

She retired from the Ontario College of Art in 1946 but continued to teach at the Doon School of Fine Arts. She studied under abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann in Massachusetts during two summers in the 1950s and made several trips to Mexico and the West Indies during the 1950s and 1960s. Housser was founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters, 1933, and married the Group's secretary, Frederick Broughton Housser, art critic and financial editor of the Toronto Daily Star. Both Houssers were members of the Toronto Theosophical Society.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a detailed file list and includes lists of transferred photographs and pictorial material. MSS1476 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002006.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1983 from Yvonne McKague Housser of Toronto, Ont.

Arrangement note:

Textual records: The extent of the fonds was revised in 1996 after rehousing.
Subject heading:

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Ontario College of Art

Painters - Canada, 1918-1983 Eric Aldwinckle, 1943-1958

Yvonne McKague Housser - Correspondence, 1924-1982 Lawren Harris, 1935-1937

Teachers - Canada, 1918-1983 A.Y. Jackson (Alexander Young), 1930, 1963-1964

Yvonne McKague Housser - Diaries, 1921-1982 Arthur Lismer, 1924-1943, 1980

Poetry - Canada, [ca.1929-ca. 1939] Isabel McLaughlin, 1934-1979

Astrology and graphology - Canada, 1918-1983 Dudley Barr, 1937-1965

Theosophy - Canada Mayrion Bisttram, 1940-1948

Northward Journal, 1980

York Wilson, 1974-1978

Herman Voaden, 1974

Harold Town, 1968

John Robins, 1936-1953

Fred Taylor, 1958

Irene Clarke, 1953

Kathleen Coburn, 1953-1954

Blodwen Davies, 1966

Bess Harris, 1936-1956

Jock Macdonald, 1960
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1983-235 NPC
1984-165 PIC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D305
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1476] 116

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
Artworks: Copyright: Yvonne McKague Housser. Credit: Yvonne McKague Housser / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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