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Roloff Beny fonds [multiple media]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Fonds

Date :

1924-1996.

Référence :

R4724-0-X-E, MG31-D241

Genre de documents :

Documents textuels, Documents photographiques, Art, Images en mouvement, Documents sonores

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Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

106922

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Roloff Beny fonds
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Fonds comprend :

122 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

1924-1996.

Lieu de création :

Sans lieu, inconnu ou indéterminé

Étendue :

ca. 158, 475 photographs.
16 m of textual records.
ca. 195 drawings.
ca. 106 prints.
6 paintings.
5 watercolours.
10 film reels (1 h, 43 min, 57 s).
1 videocassette (30 min).
15 audio reels (ca. 6 h, 8 min).
1 audio cassette (22 min, 15 s).

Langue du document :

anglais
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Roloff Beny collection [graphic material]

Roloff Beny collection [graphic material]

Roloff Beny collection [graphic material]
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Fonds consists of the photographic, art, audio-visual and manuscript records of noted Canadian artist and photographer Roloff Beny, 1924-1984. This material documents the development of Beny's career, which he began initially as an abstract painter, gradually progressing towards aesthetic photography by the late 1950s.

Included are files on Beny's many projects, commercial work and exhibitions. There is also documentation relating to his personal life, including diaries and family correspondence, portraits of Roloff Beny and his residences in Medicine Hat and Lethbridge, Alberta, New York and Rome, Italy.

The material in the Roloff Beny fonds is organized into 19 series and 68 sub-series which largely reflect his own arrangement. The series includes material maintained by his father, C.J.F. Beny in Lethbridge, Alberta, largely business records and correspondence, much of it personal, covering the years that Beny was at University through his career as an artist and later as a photographer and book designer. Though often his preferred photographic subjects were the ancient and classical cultures and architecture of Europe, the Middle and Far East, the fonds does contain a good selection of images of Canada from coast to coast. In addition there is a good deal of material relating to the book that he was commissioned to design for Canada's centennial in 1967, To Everything there is a Season, and his exhibitions including work with the National Film Board.

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Beny, Roloff, 1924-1984

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Beny, Roloff, 1924-1984 : Wilfred Roy Beny was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. As a young man, he changed his name to Roloff Beny, adopting his mother's maiden name. Upon graduation from the University of Toronto, Beny studied under the master engraver and printer Mauricio Lasansky at the State University of Iowa, graduating in 1947. After continuing his studies at Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Beny was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for printmaking and painting, and travelled throughout Europe with the American School of Classical Studies, 1948-1952.

Beny first exhibited as an artist with the Manitoba Society of Artists. Between 1941 and 1952, he held twenty-five one-man shows, in Canada, New York, Paris, Milan and Florence. Examples of his paintings and graphic art are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Fogg Museum (Boston), Yale University Museum, Knoedler Gallery (New York), the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Galleria Del Milione (Milan), and Redfern Gallery (London).

Although Roloff Beny began his artistic career as a painter and graphic designer, he is best remembered as a photographer of monuments of the ancient and classical worlds, and as the designer of coffee table books.

Beny's first major photographic exhibition came at the invitation of Sir Herbert Read, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, England, in 1955. Many other exhibitions followed: A Time of Gods 1962, Metaphysical Moments 1966, Pleasure of Photography 1966, Sculpture of The Renaissance 1967, Image Canada 1967, The Renaissance 1968, A Visual Odyssey 1958-1968 1968, In The Cloister of San Francesco 1974, Iran by Roloff Beny 1975, La Perse - Pont de Turquoise 1977, Patterns of Persia 1978, Roloff Beny In Italy And Canada 1980, Churches of Rome 1981, and Odyssey 1981.

Beny's first published book was a collection of twenty original lithographs, An Aegean Notebook (1950). After he turned to photography, he published many collections of his photographs, some of them companion volumes to his exhibitions, including the following: Thrones of Earth and Heaven (1958), A Time of Gods (1962), Pleasure of Ruins (1964), Japan In Colour (1967), To Everything There Is A Season (1967), India (1969), Island: Ceylon (1971), In Italy (1974), two books on Iran: Persia Bridge of Turquoise (1975) and Iran: Elements of Destiny (1978), Odyssey: Mirror of The Mediterranean (1981), Churches of Rome (1981) and Gods of Greece (1983).

Rajasthan was published posthumously in 1984, and Iceland and The Romance of Architecture in 1985.

The last years of Roloff Beny's life were occupied in the preparation of his "Visual Journals", a proposed book in three volumes about people, architecture and nature, to be accompanied by an autobiographical text. Beny died before the project was completed.
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FA-295

MSS2003
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Textual records (Électronique) A pdf file listing of all the textual volumes and their associated files. MSS2003 Available at the link below: (90: Ouvert)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000552.pdf

Photographic Material (Papier) Introduction and series level descriptions with associated box numbers, listed by series. Also, box lists for b&w, col. and oversize listed by volume. FA-295. Available in the Reference Room. A copy is available in Photo A&R. (90: Ouvert)

Photographic Material (Papier) Box list by series, located in Consultation Room 326. FA-295. Copy available in Photo A&R Section. (90: Ouvert)

(Papier) Photographic Material-People Finding Aid, subject index of portrait sittings, located in Consultation Room 326. Copy available in Photo A&R. 295

Moving images and sound recordings: (Électronique) See MISACS for item level descriptions.

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Received in 1994, 1995 and 1996 from the Estate of Roloff Beny. The main part of the fonds was transferred to the National Archives from Beny's home in Rome, Italy.
Additional material was received in 1995 from the Estate of Roloff Beny through the University of Lethbridge. This material includes records originally stored at the Beny family residence in Lethbridge.
These files were organized by Charles Francis Beny, Roloff Beny's father, unofficial business manager and financial advisor. Also included are records arranged by Roloff Beny established during his education at the University of Toronto and his years as a resident of New York City.
A small portion of material was transferred from London in 1995. This material forms part of the original Roloff Beny fonds and was selected by Eva Neurath of the publishing house of Thames and Hudson from Roloff Beny's archive in Rome following his death in 1984.
A publishing agreement required that Thames and Hudson have access to this material for the production of both Visual Journeys: Roloff Beny (1994), and People: Legends in Life and Art (1995), his unrealised volume of portraits. Both were produced by Mitchell Crites, Beny's former assistant, close friend and biographer.
Upon completion of these projects both textual and photographic material was to be returned to the National Archives. The major portion of this collection consists of Roloff Beny's own files relating to the publication of his Visual Journals: People, an autobiographical text illustrated with his selection of portraits. In addition, posthumous material has been retained, including correspondence and interviews with Beny's biographer Mitchell Crites.

Note sur les expositions :

Exhibition "Visual Journeys: The Photography of Roloff Beny" at the Royal Ontario Museum, 1994 and the National Archives of Canada, 1995., Exhibition "Roloff Beny: Legends in Life and Art", travelling portrait exhibit at the National Archives of Canada, 1995 and various venues in Europe through 1996-1998.

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1291 : photos from accession 2005-0942. 100 exhibition prints (portraits).
1292 : photos from accession 2005-0942. 100 exhibition prints (portraits).
1293 : photos from accession 96-171.
1294 : photos from accession 96-171.
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Artists

Photographers Canada

Photography

Publishers and publishing

Art

Photography - Exhibitions

Photographes Canada

Art Canada

Artists - Correspondence

Photographers

Photographs - Publishing

Canadians - Travel

Travel diaries
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Privé

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114-080001-9
120-080070-2
123-040063X
123-040064-8
123-040206-3
1986-009 NPC
1992-578 DAP
1994/0107
1995-093 DAP
1995-094 DAP
1995-153 DAP
1995/0090
1996/0003
1996/0074
2001-00842-2
92-189
94-110
94-190
94-230
94-284
95-105
95-145
96-171

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MG31-D241

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1992-578 DAP
1995-093 DAP
1995-094 DAP
1995-153 DAP
1995-158 DAP
1996-014 DAP
1996-134 DAP
1986-009 DAP
CAB-PHOTO 2001-00842-2
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Documents textuels

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Volume [MG31 D 241] 1--188

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Volume [R4724] 1295

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Boîte d'instruments de recherche [FA 2003] 147

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Documents iconographiques (photo)

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Exhibition prints must be viewed under the supervision of a photographic archivist.

Volume [R4724]

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1--2;

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1291--1294;

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Boîte [BENY, ROLOFF 1995-093]

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2001077502;

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RB 182--RB 191;

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RB 222--RB 224;

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TCS 01312;

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Boîte [BENY, ROLOFF 1992-578] INT 024

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Boîte [BENY, ROLOFF 1995-094]

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RB 192--RB 219;

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RB 225--RB 226;

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TCS 01312;

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Boîte [BENY, ROLOFF 1996-014]

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RB 220--RB 221;

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TCS 01312;

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Boîte [BENY, ROLOFF 1995-153]

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RB 225;

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RB 228;

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RB 235;

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TCS 01312;

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Documents iconographiques (art)

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Boîte [1986-009]

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10040--10049;

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10054--10055;

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10058--10059;

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10512;

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2000860733;

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2000860736;

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2000860847;

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A050-01--A050-02;

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010040 No de pièce attribué par BAC 1--5; 7; 9--11; 18--23; 25--33; 35--39; 42--45; 47--50; 53; 55--63; 67; 71--72; 74--75; 77--83; 86--87; 89--91; 94--97; 99; 101; 103--110; 113; 116--117; 121--122; 124

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010041 No de pièce attribué par BAC 127--128; 130--131; 133; 135--136; 138; 140--141; 143; 145; 161; 163--164; 167--169; 171; 175--177; 187; 189--192; 194--195; 198; 201; 204; 206; 209; 211; 213; 215--217; 223; 225--226; 230--232; 234--245; 247--250

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010042 No de pièce attribué par BAC 251--255; 257--262; 264; 266--272; 274--291; 293--295; 297--301; 303--327; 329--365; 367--375

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010043 No de pièce attribué par BAC 376--382; 384--406; 408--422; 425--428; 430--442; 444--449; 451--462; 465--468; 470--494; 497--500

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010044 No de pièce attribué par BAC 501--505; 508--510; 512--520; 522--526; 529--531; 533--534; 536--537; 540--563; 565; 567--579; 581--583; 585--586; 589--592; 594--595; 597; 599--600; 602--603; 605--608; 611--621; 623; 625

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010045 No de pièce attribué par BAC 632--633; 635; 638--639; 641--642; 645--649; 651; 653; 655--660; 663--668; 670--672; 675--676; 679--681; 683--697; 700--708; 710; 713--722; 725--739; 741; 744--747; 749

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010046 No de pièce attribué par BAC 752; 758--759; 762--764; 766; 768--769; 771--772; 777; 779; 781--782; 785--786; 788; 790--803; 805--806; 808; 810--811; 813; 841

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010047 No de pièce attribué par BAC 926--930; 932--934; 936--942; 944--964; 966--973; 975--976; 978; 980--1000

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010048 No de pièce attribué par BAC 1001--1004

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010049 No de pièce attribué par BAC 1189

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010054 No de pièce attribué par BAC 1774

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010055 No de pièce attribué par BAC 1958

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010058 No de pièce attribué par BAC 2282

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010059 No de pièce attribué par BAC 2424

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A050-01 No de pièce attribué par BAC 2877--2881; 2902

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A050-02 No de pièce attribué par BAC 2924--3335

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Boîte [1995-093]

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2000940730--2000940737;

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2000943130--2000943131;

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2000940730 No de pièce attribué par BAC 20; 99--107

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2000940731 No de pièce attribué par BAC 95--98

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2000940732 No de pièce attribué par BAC 56; 108--111

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2000940733 No de pièce attribué par BAC 57

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2000940734 No de pièce attribué par BAC 58--68

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2000940735 No de pièce attribué par BAC 69--79

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2000940736 No de pièce attribué par BAC 80--88

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2000940737 No de pièce attribué par BAC 89--94

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2000943130 No de pièce attribué par BAC 112

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2000943131 No de pièce attribué par BAC 113

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Images en mouvement (film)

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Documents sonores

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Photographs by Roloff Beny, except for the exhibition "A Visual Odyssey", copyright held by the National Archives of Canada.
Photographs from the Exhibition "A Visual Odyssey", copyright is held by the Nickle Arts Museum. Permission for reproduction and publication required from the Nickle Arts Museum, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Photographs of Roloff Beny by other photographers, various copyrights.
Art material by Roloff Beny - copyright held by the National Archives of Canada.
Art material by other artists - various copyrights.
Moving images and sound recordings: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holders.
The researcher is responsible for determining whether material is subject to copyright and for ascertaining the name of the person or organization holding the copyright. The recipient is also responsible for determining whether any use of copyrighted material does or does not constitute an infringement of copyright under the Copyright Act.

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