George Adrian Cuthbertson fonds [textual record, graphic material]
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Record Information – Brief George Adrian Cuthbertson fonds [textual record, graphic material]
- Item ID number:
- 103381
- Hierarchical level:
- Fonds
- Date:
- [ca. 1897]-1968.
- Reference:
- R3008-0-9-E, MG30-D193
- Type of material:
- Textual material, Art, Photographs
- Found in:
- Archives / Collections and Fonds
- Item ID number:
- 103381
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Record Information – Details - Fonds includes:
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9 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s)
- Date(s):
- [ca. 1897]-1968.
- Place of creation:
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Extent:
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1.4 m of textual records.
146 watercolours watercolour, gouache, pen and ink.
107 drawings pen and ink, pencil.
41 photographs b&w.
4 paintings tempera.
1 print engraving.
3 reproductions photo-mechanical, col. process. - Language of material:
- English
- Scope and content:
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Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, and art works related to the life and career of George A. Cuthbertson and includes manuscripts, n.d.; pictorial material and research notes, n.d.; correspondence and memoranda, 1926-1959; clippings, scrapbooks, exhibition catalogues and printed material, 1908-1968. The fonds contains a variety of graphic material including watercolours, drawings, prints, reproductions and paintings of naval activities, vessels, uniforms and equipment. Also included are photographs of Port Dalhousie and Port Colborne, Ont.; sailing ships in the Welland and Sault Canals, Ont, n.d; H.M.C.S. Rainbow, its officers and crew, 1917; H.M.S. Algerine, [between 1897-1914]; and H.M.C.D. No. 79, Atlantic, [ca. 1917]; as well as a photograph of George A. Cuthbertson, n.d.
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- Biography/Administrative history:
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Cuthbertson, George Adrian, 1898-1969 : George Adrian Cuthbertson was a marine artist and researcher. Born in Toronto in 1898, from an early age he was preoccupied with ships. His education and art training was acquired at several institutions including the Toronto Model School, the University of Toronto schools, and later the Westmount Academy in Montreal. He also studied with John David Kelly in Toronto, and with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal. When he was 13, his family moved to Montreal where he worked in the summer on a steamer as an able bodied seaman. He entered the Royal Military College at Kingston in1914, but at 17 yearned for a naval posting and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, serving from 1915 to 1918 as the Navy's youngest commissioned officer at the time. He served on mostly trawlers, mine sweepers, and mine layers, all the while surreptitiously drawing on-the-spot sketches, on minute pads carried in the palm of his hand. He had decided to write a history of the Great Lakes shipping, and conducted extensive research in museums, archives (including the Dominion Archives in Ottawa) and libraries, and admiralty offices. After the war he took a shore berth, and while operating a woollen mill at Thurso, Quebec, continued to amass research notes and illustrations for his shipping study, working before and after mill hours, for the next 12 years. He was invited to exhibit his work at the archives in Ottawa, where the outcome of a chance visit by a Canada Steamship Lines executive, was the purchase of the collection that would form the basis of their marine museum collection. They held exhibitions of his work with accompanying catalogues, in 1928, and again in 1942, the last travelling to London and Fort William, Ontario and to the Mariners Museum in Newport, Virginia. He also exhibited at T. Eaton Co. in Montreal in 1932. During this time he became prominent as a marine painter, exhibiting in major centres in Canada and the United States. Along with Paul Caron, the artist illustrated Blodwen Davies' book "Saguenay," (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., 1930). Cuthbertson was both author and illustrator of the finished version of his life's work: "Freshwater, a history of the Great Lakes," (Toronto: MacMillan, 1931). His works are to be found in a wide number of marine museums throughout North America. He died in Thurso, Quebec in 1969.
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- General Note:
- Textual records and some graphic material received in 1975 from Mrs. J.D. Gardner of Ottawa, Ont. Twenty-six watercolours and drawings donated by George A. Cuthbertson in 1927. A collection of forty-eight works of art and four manuscripts from an unknown provenance were purchased from Waddington's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Toronto in 2002.
- Arrangement note:
- There is no item number R3008-49. See container notes for further details.
- Container note(s):
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1 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
10 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
11 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
12 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
13 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
14 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
15 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
16 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
17 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
18 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
19 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
2 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
20 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
21 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
22 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
23 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
24 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
25 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
26 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
27 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
28 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
29 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
3 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
30 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
31 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
32 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
33 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
34 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
35 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
36 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
37 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
38 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
39 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
4 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
40 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
41 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
42 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
43 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
44 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
45 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
46 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
47 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
48 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
5 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
50 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
51 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
52 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
6 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
7 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
8 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number.
9 : Item-number (or container, in this case) R3008-49 was mistakenly used on a painting that was not part of this fonds, so it was removed. R3008-49 is now an unused number. - Subject heading:
- Source:
- Private
- Related control no.:
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121-080177-9
1943-004 NPC
1943-005 NPC
1943-006 NPC
1971-047 PIC
1972-038 NPC
1973-121 NPC
1974-054 PIC
1993-332 X DAP
2003-00532-3 - Former archival reference no.:
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MG30-D193
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Ordering and Viewing Options - Conditions of access:
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Textual records[Consultation90 Open]Graphic (art)[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access with assistance of an art archivist.Item no. assigned by LAC [R3008][Consultation 90 Open]1--48;[Consultation 90 Open]50--52;[Consultation 90 Open]Graphic (photo)[Consultation90 Open]Box [CUTHBERTSON, GEORGE ADRIAN 1973-121] 4139[Consultation 90 Open]Box [CUTHBERTSON, GEORGE ADRIAN 1943-005] SC 0041[Consultation 90 Open]Box [CUTHBERTSON, GEORGE ADRIAN 1943-006] SC 0041[Consultation 90 Open]Box [CUTHBERTSON, GEORGE ADRIAN 1943-004] SC 0468[Consultation 90 Open] - Terms of use:
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Art: Various copyrights. Credit: Name of artist / National Archives of Canada.
Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright expired except for photograph of Cuthbertson (Acc. no. 1973-121) where copyright is unknown. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
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