Fonds consists of photographic material depicting Harold Beament and Field Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis.
Fonds also consists of two slides commemorating a visit of the Delegation of the People's Republic of China, showing Mr. Shao Yu, Head of the delegation, Mr. Hsin, First Secretary of the Embassy, Ottawa, and Mr. Pao, Director of the Pavillion at Man and His World.
Art work is also included and consists of 14 sketchbooks and 8 portfolios of drawings done throughout Thomas Harold Beament's career.
Fonds also consists of one oil painting by Harold Beament of ice cutting on the Lower Ottawa River.
Textual material consists of miscellaneous items including biographical material, correspondence relating to Beament genealogy Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, his painting and commissions, artwork including proofs and clippings of Beament's commercial artwork, photographs and reproductions of his paintings, reference and resource material, exhibition catalogues and notices, auction catalogues and clippings about Beament and his work.
Beament, Thomas Harold, 1898-1984 : Harold Beament, artist and naval officer, was born in Ottawa, Ont., and educated at the Model School and Ottawa Collegiate Institute. After serving in the First World War with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1917-1918, he studied law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1923. He also studied at the Ontario College of Art, 1922, and was appointed Canada's fine arts representative to the British Empire Exposition at Wembly, 1924-1925. Between 1925 and 1930, Beament worked as a commercial artist in Montréal and between 1930 and 1935, he commanded the Montréal division of the R.C.N.V.R. He taught painting at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1936-1937.
He served as an officer with the R.C.N.V.R. during the Second World War, commanding minesweepers and escort vessels. He was appointed an official Senior Naval War Artist in 1943 and retired in 1947 with the rank of commander. In 1955, Beament designed the Canadian ten-cent Inuit stamp. He taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art, 1962-1963, and was President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1964-1967.
Harold Beament travelled extensively during his career. His subjects were often marine or Inuit. Beament's work is represented in the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Archives of Canada, Canadian War Museum, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, among other public repositories, and in a number of corporate collections. Harold Beament won the Jessie Dow Award, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in 1935. He was made an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1937, and a full member, 1948. He received the Volunteer Officers Decoration in 1943. He was awarded a centennial medal, 1967, and a Queen's Jubilee medal, 1977. See: (Canadian Who's Who), 1984, pp. 74-75. Canadian Who's Who, 1984, p. 74-75.
