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Elizabeth Cleaver fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1968-1985.

Reference:

R11720-0-1-E, LMS-0123

Type of material:

Textual material, Art, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3671538

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Elizabeth Cleaver fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1968-1985.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

20 m of graphic material and other material.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds includes original illustrations for 11 published books, from "The Wind Has Wings: Poems from Canada" (1968), to her posthumously published, "The Enchanted Caribou" (1985). The fonds includes the preliminary materials such as scribbles, sketches, drawings, research materials, readings and thoughts., and two multi-media kits for "How Summer Came to Canada" (1976), and "The Mountain Goats of Temlaham" (1976). The colour proofs, additional collage materials and lino-cuts are often included.

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Cleaver, Elizabeth, 1939-1985

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Cleaver, Elizabeth, 1939-1985 : Artist, illustrator, storyteller, Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1939. She studied at Concordia University, the College of Sarospatak, Hungary, and L'École des Beaux-arts, Montreal. Her M.A. thesis, written in 1980 for Concordia University, explores the literary, symbolic and visual content in the illustration of a text. She worked for a Toronto advertising firm before turning to picture-book illustration in 1966-1967 at the suggestion of the renowned graphic artist, Allan Fleming. Shortly after, William Toye invited her to illustrate a book of Canadian poetry for children. The ensuing publication of "The Wind Has Wings: Poems from Canada" (1968), launched Elizabeth Cleaver into the world of book illustration. Her illustrated tales, retold by William Toye and others, include: "How Summer Came to Canada", "The Mountain Goats of Temlahem", "Canadian Wonder Tales", "The Witch of the North", "The Loon's Necklace", "The Fire Stealer", "Petrouchka", "The New Wind Has Wings" and "The Enchanted Cariboo". Cleaver introduced the use of collage technique to create backgrounds and forms using coloured textures, and sometimes included natural materials such as grass, birchbark, evergreen branches and fur.

Elizabeth Cleaver's many awards include the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians' (CACL) Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Medal for outstanding illustration for "The Wind has Wings: Poems from Canada" and honour book citations for "How Summer Came to Canada" and "The Mountain Goats of Temlaham", all in 1971; Best Book of the Year for Children Medal from the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians in 1974 for "The Miraculous Hind: A Hungarian Legend"; and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Medal for "The Loon's Necklace" in 1978 and the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize for illustration in English for "Petrouchka" in 1980. In 1986, the Canadian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) established the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture-Book Award.

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Graphic material; textual records; kits (Paper) Finding aid available. Consult archivist. (90: Open)

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90 : This was file 10 of container LMS-0123 1985-12 7 (2001498650). Items were flattenen in the labs and required new housing as it did not fit in original container.
Subject heading:

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Children Literature Archives

Littérature de jeunesse Archives
Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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LMS-0123

Other accession no.:

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1985-12 LMS
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

LMS container [LMS-0123 1985-12]

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1--15;

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17--89;

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Graphic (art)

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Volume [LMS-0123 1985-12] 90

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Graphic (photo)

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