Series consists of miscellaneous Canadian and foreign artworks, graphic designs and photographs, as well as Canadian and foreign art posters acquired and preserved by Anne Trueblood Brodzky, while Editor of "artscanada" magazine, 1967-1982.
Artists, photographers, art themes and subject matter represented in the collection include the following: (Canadian artists & photographers) Ronald Bloore; Paul-Émile Borduas; Paul Campbell; Nick Christo; Paterson Ewen; Ivan Eyre; Judy Williams Fraser; Vera Frenkel; Simone Forti; General Idea; David Gilhooly; Rae Johnson; Wendy Knox-Leet; Norman Laliberté; Rita Letendre; Gene A. Liman; Ernest Lindner; Kenneth Lochhead; Judith Lodge; Ed Nakamura; Louis de Niverville; Larry Osland; F. Robert Openshaw; Eberhard Otto; Barry Perles; John Phillips; Mark Prent; James Reaney; William Ronald; Evelyn Roth; Harry Savage; Michael Schreier; Jack Shadbolt; Gordon Smith; Chrisanne Stathacos. (Canadian art themes and subject matter) Abstract painting & sculpture; the Art Bank; Canadian public and commercial art galleries and the visitor; artist's materials; "artscanada" promotion; birds; Canadian dance; Canadian landscape; cityscapes; drawing; the environment; environmental art; the Eskimo World; male & female figure studies; interior views; imaginary figures; maps and mapping; photographic views of Montréal; native Indian culture; Northern Ontario landscape; classic photographic art; the Prairies; robots; Rodman Hall Arts Centre; ritual art; figurative and non-figurative sculpture; sculpture garden; self discovery; Selecto-TV; Shamanic art; urban renewal; wall hangings; women. (Foreign artists and photographers) Kosso Eloul; Shigeko Kubota; Les Levine; Van Genk. (Non-Canadian art themes and subject matter) Foreign public and commercial art galleries; John Cage; Marcel Duchamp; Polish film; Ernesto Che Guevara; photographic views of Israel; Peruvian culture; Siberian culture; U.S. politics; video art.
Included are six P.M.T. enlargements, taken from printed half tone reproductions, each depicting a former "artscanada" staff member, and one photo of an original testamonial presented to Canadian artist David Gilhooly, in recognition of his donation of a sculpture to "artscanada" magazine, in 1975, bearing the signature of Anne Trueblood Brodzky. Also included are photographs documenting the above creators, events and works of art collected by Brodzky in her capacity as Editor of artscanada magazine; portraits of Canadian artists Jack Chambers, Joyce Wieland, Greg Curnoe, Murray Favro, Michael Snow, Les Levine, Gordon Rayner, Claude Breeze, Walter Redinger, Royden Rabinowitch, David Blackwood, Ron Martin, David Gilhooly, John Boyle, Iain Baxter, Roy Kiyooka and hundreds of others; art installed at Expo '67, Montreal; artists working in the studio, teaching, and conversing; and documentation of works of art. Photos by Gaby, John Reeves, John Max.
Series also includes seven camera ready paste-ups for "artscanada" illustrations and typography.
