Quebec : Quebec Federation of Regional Unions of Caisses populaires Desjardins
Physical Description
73 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Notes
"This publication is dedicated to the founders and leaders of the Federation of Quebec of Regional Unions of Caisses populaires Desjardins and to all the volunteer workers in the Caisses populaires and Regional Unions who have worked tirelessly for the development of Caisses populaires Desjardins until the Desjardins Cooperative Movement is now the finest economic and social success in French Canada"
Mrs. Perry, wife of Edward Perry, Professor English in Brandon College, began painting about 1940. She studied with professors Eliasson and Ivan Eyre, 1958-1960 on their trips to Brandon from Winnipeg, and continued with teachers at the Brandon Allied Arts Centre, 1960-1965; Ferrer, Strub, Repa and Halliday. 'Miniature Antiques' represents a lifetime interest in antiques on the part of professor and Mrs. Perry. (1969 inventory)
James (Jock) W. G. MacDonald was born in Thurso, Scotland in 1867. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art, and later worked as a fabric designer. He taught at Lincoln School of Art; Vancouver School of Art; School of Decorative and Applied Arts, Vancouver; Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, Calgary; and at Ontario College of Art after 1947. MacDonald was a member of Canadian Group of Painters and Painters Eleven. He died in Toronto in 1960. The artist was conducting independent experiments in Vancouver while the others worked in Winnipeg and Toronto. He had painted 'automatics' by 1934 and completely abstract or non-objective works by 1935 or 1936. (Painting in Canada: A History. Harper J. Russel. U of Toronto Press, 1977. P 327) Jock MacDonald was one of Canada's first painters to explore the relationship between abstraction and landscape. What MacDonald did is take the formal qualities of his subjects and isolate or abstract them form the landscape. (The History of Painting in Canada. Barry Lord. Toronto: NC Press, 1974. P 205-7)
Dimensions
23.5 X 33.5 cm
Size Overall
45 X 52.5 cm
Medium
watercolor
Condition
Slight cockling of surface.
Primary Support
paper
Secondary Support
mat, plexiglass, backing board; frame - wood and plaster with gild
The Grain Growers' record, 1906 to 1943 : an abridged history of Grain Growers' Grain Company, 1906 to 1917, Alberta Farmers Co-operative Elevator Company, 1913 to 1917 [and] United Grain Growers Limited, 1917 to 1943
Contemporary specimens of compositions, accompanied by explanatory or supplementary letters by the authors themselves, describing their methods, habits of writing, revisions, etc. cf. Pref
