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Hubert Rogers fonds [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1928-1976.

Reference:

R10411-0-3-E

Type of material:

Art, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

201699

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Hubert Rogers fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1928-1976.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

236 drawings multiple processes.
61 photographs b&w.
16 prints half-tone, offset lithograph.
11 paintings oil, tempera.
7 watercolours watercolour, watercolour over pencil.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of 3 sketchbooks featuring a collection of works relating to the life and career of Hubert Rogers, NFB designer, science fiction illustrator, portraitist, and commercial artist, including: portraits of Senator Renaude Lapointe, Helen Turcotte, General E.M.D. Leslie, Hon. J. Watson MacNaught, James Tompkins, Ken Cameron, Jo O'Brian, Brigadier Edmond Blais, Earl of Athlone-Government House in 1945. Suzanne Bredemeier at Bennington College in 1965, A.Y. Jackson, Malcolm McInnis; Quebec Conference sketches of Franklin Delanore Roosevelt, William Lyon Mackenzie King at the Chateau Frontenac; Senate Procession sketches (1973-1974) of the Deputy Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod Major Lamoureux, Clerk's Assistant A. Paquette, Quebec Conference sketchbook (1943)with sketches of Winston Churchill, U.S. Army General Arnold, Sir Hastings Ismay, Franklin D. Roosevelt. There are 10 chalk drawings; 29 charcoal drawings; 34 charcoal and chalk drawings; 6 pencil, charcoal, and chalk; 21 pencil, pen and ink; 1 ink; 135 pencil; 6 watercolour over pencil; 1 watercolour; 7 oil; 4 pastel; 3 tempera.

Fonds includes: oil painting titled Sketch for Proposed Senate Procession Painting (ca. 1973-1974); the final painting to be produced from this work was never realized due to lack of funding.

Fonds also includes: World War II posters, 9 half-tone and 7 offset lithographs;(some designed for the Wartime Information Board) original designs for posters and drawings around Ottawa, including a series of Pakenham Bridge.

Fonds also contains: photographs, primarily portraits, of Victoria Cross winners David Currie, Ernest Alvia "Smokey" Smith, David Ernest Hornell, John Keefer Mahoney, and Cecil C.I. Merritt. Most of the photographs are official Army or R.C.A.F. photographs.

Also included are photographs of Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt, Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King and Senior British, American and Canadian military officers and government officials taking part in the Quebec Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, August 1943. Photos by U.S. Army Signal Corps, Geraldine Carpentier/News Pictures of Canada.

Provenance:

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Rogers, Hubert Reginald, 1898-1982

Additional name(s):

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Rogers, Hubert, 1898-1982

Biography/Administrative history:

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Rogers, Hubert Reginald, 1898-1982 : Hubert Rogers, painter, illustrator, draughtsperson.

Finding aid:

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Photographs: (Paper) Finding aids are press releases and list of captions in accession file.

Photographs: (Electronic) Refer to Minisis for item-level description.

Artistic material: (Electronic) Refer to Minisis for item-level description.

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General note:

The bulk of the material was received in 1982, 1987, 1988 from Helen Priest Rogers, Vermount, U.S.A.

The Proposed Senate Procession Painting was acquired through a bequest from the estate of the Hon. Muriel McQueen Fergusson in 1997.
Note booklets and pamphlets from this collection have been transferred to the NA Library.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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089-87
1987-072 X PIC
1989-010 DAP
1989-420 DAP
1997-00157-8
1998-025 VSA
383-88
POE 97-524 (1997-09-18)
R10411-0-3-E
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R10411] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [1987-072]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A302-01 Item no. assigned by LAC 133; 171

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [ROGERS, HUBERT 1989-010] 3722

[Consultation 90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Art material: Some items restricted due to donor's desire to restrict access prior to planned publication. Copyright: various including Estate of Hubert Rogers, expires 2032. Credit: National Archives of Canada, The Hubert Rogers collection.
Photographs: No restrictions on use. Various copyrights. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative number.

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