Collection of textual, photographic, audio-visual and art records relating to the personal and professional lives of David P. Silcox, including the following subjects:
Publishing and exhibitions - Group of Seven and Tom Thomson and Silence and the Storm publications: sub-series includes annotated books; corrected drafts; research material including copies of letters; image documentation; photographic records, primarily in slide form, including images of paintings and of David Silcox and Harold Town; correspondence; drafts of book layouts; image edit information; book tour notes; lists of illustrations; publishing documents and correspondence (McClelland and Stewart, Firefly); records for the translated publication Le Calme et la Tempête; periodicals; clippings and articles; and general correspondence concerning book publishing and book launches.
Christopher Pratt: sub-series includes Pratt reproductions, copies of two Pratt interview with Meriké Weiler; copies of drawings/studies; photographs of Pratt; photocopied reproductions; annotated drafts for Pratt book; research material (notes, correspondence); correspondence with Key Porter books; and ephemera and correspondence related to the book launch.
John James Audubon and Jack Bush: sub-series includes research and ephemera relating to exhibitions.
Advisory boards and committees: series includes textual records relating to such cultural agencies as the Art Gallery of Ontario Contemporary Collection Committee; Association of Cultural Executives; Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal (CPPRT); Canadian Conference of the Arts; Canadian Federation of Friends of Museums; Canadian Film and Television Production Industry; Canadian Opera Company Ensemble; Council for Business and the Arts in Canada; Council for Canadian Unity; Ethos Foundation; Friends of America; Gardiner Museum Board of Trustees; Kofffler Gallery Advisory Board; Laidlaw Foundation; London House Association; Massey Hall and Roy Thompson Hall Boards of Governors; New Opera Ballet House; Ontario College of Art and Design; PEN Canada; Public Works Canada Fine Arts Program; Royal Conservatory of Music Board of Directors; Royal Ontario Museum; Sculpture Conference; Stamps Advisory Committee; Stratford Festival; Toronto Free Theatre; Toronto International Festival; University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC); Victoria University; and the Writer's Union.
Sotheby's Canada: series includes business and e-mail correspondence; client lists; auction catalogues; financial records; press clippings; performance reviews; invitations; ephemera; and advertising material.
Professional government career: series includes textual records comprising Ministerial documents and agendas, correspondence, memos, speeches, and drafts of government reports relating to Silcox's tenures with the Canada Council; Canada Post; Municipality of Metopolitan Toronto; Department of Communications, Government of Canada; and Deputy Minister of Culture and Communications, Province of Ontario.
Professional academic career: series includes textual records relating to Silcox's role as Senior Fellow of Massey College, as a member of Victoria University Board of Regents, as Director of the University of Toronto Art Centre, and with York University's Faculty of Fine Arts.
Personal material: series includes juvenilia; Boy Scout material; ephemera; personal correspondence; social engagements and invitations; personal documents including legal documents; photographic material including personal slides and photographs from travels, family events and the Milne catalogue launch part; material relating to artist friends including the N.E. Thing Co.; theatre-related documents and playbills; awards and certificates including records relating to the Order of Canada and the Governor-General's Award in Visual and Media Arts; political buttons; Silcox family documents; political contributions; programs from performing arts events; and philanthropic donations.
Miscellaneous art material: series includes colour proofs for Painting Place and Silence and the Storm; set of Olympic posters from Artists-Athletes Coalitions; comic books; artists' books; Harold Town material; design work and ephemera relating to Roy Thompson Hall; and general varied posters relating to the arts.
Miscellaneous published material: series includes annual cultural reports; exhibition catalogues; art calendars; collection catalogues; government bills; cultural pamphlets and periodicals; and Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal reports and collective agreements
