Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak fonds [textual record, graphic material] Archives / Collections et fonds
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Hiérarchie Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak fonds [textual record, graphic material]
Niveau hiérarchique :FondsContexte de cette notice :Fonds comprend :16 description(s) de niveau inférieurVoir description(s) de niveau inférieur -
Instrument de recherche Textual records (Électronique) Finding aid is a file list describing volumes 1 to 15 MSS1928 (90: Ouvert)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000488.pdfGraphic material : (Électronique) Some item level descriptions are available on-line for accession 1992-688; 1992-450; 1990-255 (90: Ouvert)Graphic material (accession no. 1993-168): (Papier) Inventory list in accession file. -
Notice descriptive Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak fonds [textual record, graphic material]
Date :1930-2000.Référence :R5336-0-6-E, MG30-D378Genre de documents :Documents textuels, Documents photographiques, ArtTrouvé dans :Archives / Collections et fondsNo d'identification :106681Date(s) :1930-2000.Lieu de création :CanadaÉtendue :2.3 m of textual records.
211 photographs : b&w and col.
169 drawings : pen and ink, pencil, and felt pen, charcoal, watercolour.
149 prints : woodcut, serigraph, and wood engraving.
19 watercolours : pen and ink.
147 p. of graphic material : folios.Langue du document :anglaisPortée et contenu :Fonds consists of personal records of Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak. The textual records have been arranged in the following series: personal material and memorabilia; personal material and memorabilia, additional material; painting records; business correspondence; business correspondence - additional material; galleries; exhibitions; exhibitions, additional material; clippings; printed material; personal correspondence,individual and general files; family correspondence; family correspondence, additional material; diaries.
Fonds consists of photographs: individual portraits of Bruno Bobak and Molly Lamb Bobak; Portraits of the Bobaks with friends Joe Plaskett and Phyllis Webb; photographs of works of art by Bruno and Molly Bobak; informal portraits of Bruno Bobak, Joe Plaskett and Lloyd Johnston; photographic Christmas cards by Donald Buchanan; portrait of pianist and composer Arthur Benjamin; portrait of composer and educator Jean Coulthard.
Fonds consists of art marterial: drawings and watercolours by Bruno Bobak, Campbell Tinning and Will Ogilvie documenting activities of the Canadian Armed Forces overseas during the Second World War; drawings by Molly Bobak entitled the Old Testament; illustrations for Sasha Bobak's diary; prints of original and reproduction cards received by Molly Bobak by various artists; cards created by Bruno and Molly Bobak; wood engraving by Burno Bobak; posters relating to Bruno Bobak's artistic career; folios of an illustrated war diary kept by Molly Bobak which document her experiences as an official Canadian war artist from November 1942 to September 1945.Provenance :Nom(s) additionnel(s) :Biographie/Histoire administrative :Bobak, Bruno, 1923-2012 : Bruno Bobak was born in Poland in 1923 but came to Canada in 1925 with his parents, who settled initially in Saskatchewan and then in Hamilton, Ontario. He studied art at the age of thirteen under Arthur Lismer at the Art Gallery of Toronto and then under Carl Schaefer and Charles Goldhamer at the Central Technical School, Toronto. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1943 and was appointed an official war artist in 1944, serving in Europe with the Fourth Canadian Armoured Division. He married fellow war artist Molly Lamb in 1945.
After the war, Bruno Bobak worked as a designer for the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in Ottawa and then moved to British Columbia where he became head of the Design Department at the Vancouver School of Art. In 1957, he was awarded a Canadian Government Overseas Senior Fellowship and went to Europe to study and paint. In 1960, Bruno Bobak was offered a post as artist-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, and Fredericton became the Bobaks' home. Soon after, in 1962, he became Director of the University of New Brunswick's Art Centre.
Bruno Bobak has been a member of the British Columbia Society of Artists, Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, Canadian Group of Painters, Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and the Royal Canadian Academy. He has participated in more than two hundred and fifty group exhibitions and has had more than eighty one-man shows. He is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée des Beaux-Arts, and elsewhere. He has received honorary degrees and other awards in recognition of his contributions to Canadian art.
Bobak, Molly Lamb, 1920-2014 : The artist Molly Lamb Bobak was born in Vancouver in 1920, the daughter of Canadian geologist and Secretary of the Canadian Mining Association, Harold Mortimer-Lamb, who was a well-known amateur photographer and art critic, and a friend of many Canadian artists including A.Y. Jackson. Her mother had immigrated to Canada from England and ran a resort on Galiano Island in British Columbia.
Molly Lamb studied at the Vancouver School of Art between 1938 and 1941 under the painter Jack Shadbolt. After joining the CWAC's, she worked on set and costume designs for the Army Show in Toronto. She won third prize at the Canadian Army Art Exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 1944 and was appointed an official war artist with the Canadian Army 1945-1946. As a war artist she was sent to Holland to paint the aftermath of war. She married fellow Canadian war artist Bruno Bobak in 1945.
After the war, Molly Bobak taught in the Design Department at the Vancouver School of Art and was an instructor at the University of British Columbia 1958-1959. In 1960, Molly Bobak was asked by Air France to lead a tour in Paris; she had also received a Canada Council grant and spent part of the year living and painting in Europe. That same year, she moved to Fredericton to begin teaching at the University of New Brunswick's Art Centre, where she remained until 1967.
Molly Bobak has been a member of the B.C. Society of Artists, Canadian Group of Painters and Canadian Society of Graphic Art, and has exhibited her work across the country. She is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée des Beaux-Arts, and elsewhere. She has received honorary degrees and other awards in recognition of her contributions to Canadian art.Information additionnelle :Note générale :Received in 1992 from Molly and Bruno Bobak of Fredericton, New Brunswick; additional material was received between 1992 and 2000 from Molly Bobak.Vedette-matière :- National Film Board of Canada
- Naomi Jackson Groves
- Artists - Canada, [1932-1992] Alexander (Sasha) Bobak, [1932-1983]
- Bruno Bobak - Biography, n.d. Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, [1953-1961]
- Art - Exhibitions, [1937-1986] Lilias Torrance Newton, [1953-1961]
- Women artists - Canada, [1932-1992] Will Ogilvie, [1953-1961]
- War artists, [1937-1945] York Wilson, [1953-1961]
- Arbutus Point (B.C.) - Resorts, [194-] Kay Pepper, [1953-1961]
- Art - Study and teaching, 1941-1990 Harold Mortimer-Lamb, n.d
- Art - Societies, etc., [1941-1990] Jack Shadbolt, 1984-1988
- Art - Collectors and collecting, [1941-1990] Joe Plaskett, n.d., 1954-1988
- Art galleries, [1952-1984] A.Y. Jackson, n.d., 1960
- Artists' representatives, [1961-1992] George Woodcock, 1979-1987
- Artists - Correspondence, 1983 Campbell Tinning, 1969
- Norway - Description and travel, [1953-1961] Ron Thom, n.d., 1962-1985
- Tony [Tascona], n.d
- George Swinton, 1986-1987
- Philip Surrey, 1972-1984
- Margaret Surrey, 1972-1984
- Ann Smith, 1985-1987
- David Silcox, 1982
- Jane Rule, 1985
- Louis Robichaud, 1965
- John Polanyi, 1977-1987
- Mary Pratt, 1981
- Rae Perlin, n.d., 1983
- Grant Munroe, 1975
- Roland Michener, 1968
- Frances [Itani], 1986
- Elizabeth Hopkins, 1974-1987
- Richard Hatfield, n.d., 1978
- Guy Glover, 1983
- Bill Glassco, 1966-1985
- Jane Glassco, 1966-1985
- Walter Gordon, 1968-1986
- Elizabeth Gordon, 1965-1986
- Carol Fraser, n.d., 1990
- Eric Freifeld, 1970
- Marya Fiamengo, 1960-1979
- Catherine Everett, 1984-1988
- Arthur Erikson, n.d
- Solange Chaput-Rolland, 1966
- Dalton Camp, 1981
- Gerald Budner, n.d., 1983-1989
- Donald Buchanan, 1958
- Miller Brittain, 1966
- Reginald Balch, n.d
- B.C. Binning, n.d
- Alistair Bell, n.d., 1959-1960
- Betty Bell, n.d., 1959-1960
- Peter Aspell, n.d., [ca.1940]
- Edward Ardizzone, n.d., 1946-1954
- Stephen Andrews, 1983
- Marie-Hélène Allain, 1979-1985
- Moncrieff Williamson, n.d., 1983
- Takoa Tanabe, 1972
- Philip Surrey, 1964-1983
- Desmond Pacey, 1971
- Mary Pacey, 1971
- Alden Nowlan, n.d., 1969
- Colin MacKay, 1967-1986
- Illingworth H. Kerr, 1982
- Edwin Holgate, 1971
- Pamela Gordon, 1965
- Alex Colville, 1966, 1983
- Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, 1983
- Yellow Door Gallery, 1965-1967
- Wells Gallery, 1965-1967
- Walter Klinkhoff, 1976-1986
- Paul Kastel, 1977-1983
- Isaacs Gallery, 1961-1968
- Dresden Gallery, 1978-1984
- National Gallery of Canada, [1941-1990]
- Alice Mary Price, [1947]-1989
- John Metcalf, 1978
- Guy MacLean, 1984
- Bora Laskin, 1970
- Lloyd Johnston, 1975
- Lucy Jarvis, n.d
- University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB)
- World War, 1939-1945
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
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