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James Edward Hervey MacDonald fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1899-1968.

Reference:

R3259-0-5-E, MG30-D111

Type of material:

Textual material, Art, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103624

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James Edward Hervey MacDonald fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1899-1968.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

46.5 cm of textual records.
65 drawings : pencil, watercolour, ink, pastel, charcoal, gold metallic paint.
5 photographs : b&w.

Language of material:

English

Accession:

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J.E.H. MacDonald collection [graphic material]

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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.

Provenance:

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Macdonald, J. E. H. (James Edward Hervey), 1873-1932

Biography/Administrative history:

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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.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) Finding aid is a descriptive list. MSS308

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS0308
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000056.pdf

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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:

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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:

Private

Related control no.:

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120-020053-5
1970-203 NPC
1973-014 PIC
1974-004 PIC
1992-674 DAP
1992/0159
92-355

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D111
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 308] 36

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation99 Closed pending processing]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [MACDONALD, JAMES EDWARD HERVEY 1992-674] 5325

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MACDONALD, JAMES EDWARD HERVEY 1970-203] 5784

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [R3259] C-120001--C-120066

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Drawings: Restrictions to be determined. Copyright expired.
Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright is unknown or expired. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

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