Visual & Textual Documents on Art and Architecture in Canada
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Eleanor Milne: The Making of an Artist in Canada
Principal Investigators: Dr. Catherine MacKenzie, Linda Bien
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/milne/ 

Proficient in many media, Eleanor Milne (b.1925) continues to play an active role in the Canadian art world. She was Canada's Dominion Sculptor from 1961 to 1993, contributing many elements to the Centre Block of Parliament. She created stone carvings of the History of Canada, the British North America Act and the Origin of Life in Canada. She also designed stained glass windows for the House of Commons, and oversaw the restoration of the linen ceiling of the House. 

The Art of Guido Nincheri/l'Art de Guido Nincheri
Principal Investigator: Linda Bien
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/nincheri

Guido Nincheri (1885-1973), one of Canada's most important stained glass masters also introduced the technique of true fresco to North America. This bilingual website results from the collaboration between the Atelier d'histoire Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and the Research Collections of the Slide Library at Concordia University.It documents some of Nincheri's religious and secular works of ornamentation, stained glass, fresco and other mural painting in Montreal.

Anne Savage
Principal Investigator: Linda Bien
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/savage/

Anne (Annie) Douglas Savage was a Canadian artist and teacher who made a significant impact on Canadian art and education. She was one of the first women to participate actively in the creation of a Canadian school of painting, and an early exponent of child art and creative teaching. Trained as a painter, and a self taught teacher, her success as an educator and her development as a painter were concurrent.

Canadian Artists of Eastern European Origin
Principal Investigator: Dr. Loren Lerner
http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/index.htm

This website/project aims to provide information in the form of a biographical dictionary of over seventy selected living artists in Canada, of mainly eastern European origin. Spanning the period from the 1930s to the present, its focus encompasses both artists who came to Canada in the last seventy years, and first and second generation artists reconnecting with their eastern European heritage.

Canadian Sculpture: Coming of Age
Principal Investigator: Linda Bien
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sculpture

The site documents 15 male and female founders and early members of the Sculptors' Society of Canada (SSC, f.1928). It is linked to a database of over 1000 images of the artists' works from the Research Collections of the Slide Library. The website includes a printable 30 page bibliography on the SSC by Concordia PhD student, Joyce Millar, an authority on Canadian sculpture who acted as consultant for the project.

Canadian Sculpture from the Hayward and Brault Collections
Principal Investigator: Linda Bien
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/brault

Conceived as a pilot project to use the World Wide Web to increase awareness and expand interest in Canadian sculpture, a searchable bilingual database on this site makes thousands of images of traditional Canadian art and information about historical Canadian sculptors available over the Internet.

Diving for a Sunken Canadian Treasure: Rediscovering the P.S. Lady Sherbrooke
Principal Investigator: Jean Belisle
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/lady

The P.S. Lady Sherbrooke, a vessel used to navigate the waters of a newly discovered land, is an essential element in Canadian history. The two basic purposes to this website are to describe the P.S. Lady Sherbrooke and then to outline the complexities involved in what was the largest, privately supported, underwater archeological dive in Canadian history.

First Nations Art: An Introduction to Contemporary Native Artists in Canada
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joan Acland
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/artists/

This Introductory Guide is intended to facilitate access to relevant biographical and bibliographic information pertaining to contemporary First Nations artists and includes the artist's full name, date and place of birth, as well as First Nations affiliation, followed by a short biographical description. We have produced a bibliography of the most recent and/or important writings on each artist, which is meant to introduce the reader to that artist's work. A recent exhibition history is provided with an emphasis on Canadian venues. We also list selected collections containing the artist's work, to enable you to see the original art.

Researching the Visual Arts in Canada
http://art-history.concordia.ca/RVACanada/index.html

This Website is an ongoing project of the Art History Department at Concordia University, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Compiled by graduate students, it is meant to be a used as a tool for sharing resources for studying the visual arts in Canada.

 

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