This print was part of an exhibition entitled Double Bind, and was printed at the Manitoba Printmakers Association in 1989, sewn together in 1990 and exhibited after 1991. Double Bind was exhibited in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Halifax.
Dimensions
196.5 X 144.5 cm
Size Overall
224 X 173 cm
Medium
screen collograph print
Condition
Slight wrinkling and creasing from being folded in storage.
"Gordon Smith was born in 1919 in England. He arrived in Winnipeg at the age of fifteen and first studied art there with Le Moine Fitzgerald. He later moved to Vancouver and graduated from the Vancouver School of Art at the end of the war. He joined staff in 1946 and in 1957 moved to the Fine Art Department of the University of British Columbia. In his work of the fifties he is concerned to recreate an actual experience or mood rather than, like Shadbolt, to create a new multi-leveled reality." (Dennis Reid: A concise History of Canadian Painting. Toronto University Press, 1973. P. 278)
Dimensions
60 X 75 cm
Size Overall
76 X 91 cm
Medium
oil
Condition
The surface is dusty, and the frame has abrasion marks all around its perimeter.
George Alexander Grieve was born on January 11, 1902 in Newstead, Melrose, Scotland. His family immigrated to Canada in June 1910, and settled in the Virden area of Manitoba. George attended school in the Montgomery, Pacific and Arawana districts. George married Mary Dorothy Walker (1917-2012) on November 17, 1937 and together they raised two sons, Alex and Robert, as well as Mary's brother from infancy, Lloyd Walker. From 1942 to 1972, George served as a councillor for Ward 2 in the RM of Wallace. During this time he helped develop a network of roads. George was a member of the Arawansa Seed Club and a director of the Elkhorn Agricultural Society. Avid dancers, George called quadrilles for many years in Arawana and surrounding districts. He also enjoyed curling and playing cards. Due to his arthritis, George was confined to a wheelchair for the last fifteen years of his life. George Grieve died on June 14, 1990 in Virden, MB. He is buried at Virden Cemetery.
Custodial History
As part of the Westman Oral History Collection, this collection was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1998. The original tapes from the Westman Oral History project were deposited in the Brandon Public Library. Copies of these originals were made by Margaret Pollex of the Brandon University Language Lab at the request of Eileen McFadden, University Archivist in the early 1990s. These copies compose the collection held in the McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
Item is an audiocassette tape containing an interview with George Grieve about Scottish immigrants, his life and early road building in Manitoba. Interviewer is Elmer Armstrong.
Notes
History/bio information from the records, the local history "Hometown Virden" and Grieve's obituary. Description by Christy Henry.
Language Note
English
Audio Tracks
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