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Art Advisory Committee fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR226
  • Fonds
  • 1962; 1981

The fonds consists of brochures listing a brief history, paintings, chalk drawings, graphics and other works; draft of the brochure listing the Victoria College Art Collection, oil paintings, water colors, chalk drawings and graphics, and sculpture; letter sent on October 26, 1981 by Dr. G.V. Downes in reference to the Art Exhibition records.

Victoria College (B.C.). Art Advisory Committee

George and Anne Piternick collection

  • CA UVICARCH SC698
  • Collection
  • 1967 - 1968

The collection consists of correspondence with, and relating to, Margaret Peterson regarding paintings purchased by George Piternick. Correspondents include Peterson, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and a film production company making a documentary about the artist, and others, dating from 1967-1968. The four paintings by Peterson owned by Piternick were donated to the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery by Anne Piternick.

Herbert Siebner fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR402
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1943-2010

Fonds reflects Siebner’s intellectual and philosophical interests and ideas on art and life; his interactions with galleries, friends, family and patrons; travels; involvement in the Limners; pre-publication work for his monographs and other books; promotion and sale of art; and public art commissions.
The fonds consists of personal writing and poetry, correspondence, sales lists, inventories, exhibition announcements, sketches, clippings, photographs, film and video, prints and drawings.

Siebner, Herbert, 1925-2003

Jack Wise fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR393
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1998, predominant 1965-1992

Fonds reflects Wise’s artistic inspirations, philosophical development, research interests, interactions with fellow artists and patrons, and relationships with galleries, art dealers, schools and arts organizations. The fonds consists of correspondence, sales lists, exhibition catalogues and lists, photographs, clippings, sketches, poems and calligraphy, scrapbooks and notebooks, teaching materials, curricula vitae and biographical documents, publications, and seals and other objects used by Wise in his art practice. Correspondents include Robert Amos, Pat Martin Bates, Pat Bovey, Brian Brett, Lin Chien-Shih, Stephen Cummings, Fleming Jorgensen, Stephen Gislason, Colin and Sheila Graham, Robin Hopper, Nick and Karin Koerner, Ramon Kubicek, Lobsang Lhalungpa, Chin-Shik Lin, Brian Longworth, Max Maynard, Avon Neal, Gary Lee Nova, Toni Onley, P.K. Page, Syn Richards, Martin Segger, Doris Shadbolt, Madeleine Shields, Robin Skelton, Huston Smith, Pete Trower, George Woodcock, and Myken Woods. The fonds has been arranged into four series: art practice; biographical; publications and essays by others; and teaching. The art practice series consists of five sub-series: photographs; posters; exhibition catalogues; correspondence; prose, poetry and small works; and notebooks, scrapbooks and clippings.

Wise, Jack, 1928-1996

Limners fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR440
  • Fonds
  • 1972-2008

Fonds documents the activities of the Victoria Limners Society from 1972-2008 and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records and society filings. It also contains records related to various group exhibits, including the Limners’ 25th anniversary exhibition in 1996, as well as records related to a book and video produced about the group. A small number of newspaper clippings, exhibition pamphlets, various editions of a booklet on the Limners Society artists and black and white photographs showing Limner members at exhibitions and meetings can be found in this fonds. This fonds has been arranged into into six series: 1) letters; 2) minutes; 3) financial records; 4) society filings; 5) 25th anniversary exhibition; and 6) publications and graphic materials.

Limners (Group of artists)

Margaret Peterson fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR445
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1997

The fonds reflects Margaret Peterson’s artistic processes and practices, research interests, pedagogy, her relationship with Howard O’Hagan, and her relationships with friends, patrons, fellow artists, galleries and various institutions.

The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, biographical documents, diaries and notebooks, financial and business-related documents, grant applications, teaching materials, unpublished poetry and manuscripts, exhibition catalogues, clippings and publications, drawings and small artworks, painting materials, objects collected by Peterson, and various ephemera.

Correspondents include Howard O’Hagan, Elza Mayhew, Glenn Wessels, J. Russell Harper, Jean Varda, Dorothy and John B. Grover, Joy Ling, Walter Askin, Robert and Sarah Amos, Helen Anderson, R.W. Peterson, Ellen Charlotte Peterson, and Jane Hanks.

The fonds has been arranged into five series: Biographical, Art Practice, Publications, clippings and collected ephemera, Teaching, and Howard O’Hagan Materials.

Peterson, Margaret, 1902-1997

President's Committee on the Need for an Art Gallery fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR249
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1973

The fonds consists of Minutes, 1972; Correspondence, 1972-73; and draft final and minority reports, 1973.

University of Victoria (B.C.). President's Committee on the Need for an Art Gallery

Robert Amos collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR461
  • Collection
  • 1976-2014

Collection consists of brochures, catalogues, postcards, and posters amassed by Amos. Also included is scanned compilation of Amos’s Times Colonist articles and research material including handwritten notes, newspaper articles, and more related to the collector’s work in putting together a biography of the local artist, Myfanwy Pavelic (unpublished), and a biography of photographer Henry Mortimer Lamb titled, “Harold Mortimer Lamb: The Art Lover” (2013).

Women Artists of British Columbia collection

  • CA UVICARCH AR560
  • Collection
  • 1985

The collection consists of research materials for British Columbia Women Artists, 1885-1985, an exhibition organized by Nicholas Tuele at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.