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Collection Summary
 

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Contact Information

Box List
National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives

Philip Clark Collection:

Finding Aid


Collection Summary
Title: Philip Clark Collection. 
Dates: – 1936-1945. 
Quantity:  – 5 cm of textual records and 33 photographs. 

Biographical Sketch

Philip Clark, Canadian chartered accountant, served as Secretary to the Canadian Group of Painters from 1936-1946. The Group was formed in 1933 by Canadian artists A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974), Lawren Harris (1885-1970), Arthur Lismer (1885-1969), Frank Carmichael (1890-1945), Alfred Joseph Casson (1898-1992), Frederick Horsman Varley (1881-1969), Edwin Holgate (1892-1977), and Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald (1890-1956). Its aim was to foster closer co-operation between artists in Canada and to hold exhibitions of artists' works. Clark was well-established in the Toronto arts community through membership in the Arts and Letters Club. In 1931 he married the artist Paraskeva Clark (1898-1986), whom he had met in Paris. His wife exhibited in the first exhibition of the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933. She was elected a member of the Group in 1936.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

Collection consists of photographs that were submitted to Clark by various members of the Canadian Group of Painters in response to a request for photographs, in order to build up a library on members of the Group and to collect illustrations for future publications. Artists represented include Fritz Brandtner (1896-1969), Ethel Seath (1879-1963), and Kathleen M. Morris (1893-1986 ). There are also photographs and negatives of an exhibition opening for the Group (including photographs of Peter Haworth (1889-1986), Kathleen Pepper (1898-1994), Rody Kenny Courtice (1895-1973), Yvonne McKague Housser (1898-1996), A.Y. Jackson, and Emanuel Hahn (1881-1957), and of works that were shown in an exhibition of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild in 1942 (including paintings by Bertram Brooker (1888-1955), Emily Carr (1871-1945) and Yvonne McKague Housser). The collection also includes additional photographs of works by Ethel Seath, Bertram Brooker, William A. Winter (1909-1996), and Isabel McLaughlin (1903-2002 ). Correspondence regarding photographs sent by Brandtner, Seath, and Morris is included with the collection. The collection also includes ten copies of the Canadian Group of Painters Letters Patent and Memorandum of Agreement (1936) and a list of Canadian Group of Painters members (1946).

Source of supplied title proper: Title based on contents of fonds.

Immediate source of acquisition: Donated to the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives by Mary Clark, daughter-in-law of Philip Clark, 1986.

Terms governing use and reproduction: Permission to reproduce or publish material from the Philip Clark Collection must be obtained from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.

Physical description: Photographs includes 28 b&w images and 5 negatives.

Finding aids: Box list available.

General note: See Visual Resources database records for the collection for further information on the photographs.

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Index Terms
Names:
Brooker, Bertram, 1888-1955
Brandtner, Fritz, 1896-1969
Clark, Philip
Courtice, Rody Kenny, 1895-1973
Hahn, Emanuel, 1881-1957
Haworth, Peter, 1889-1986
Jackson, A.Y., 1882-1974
Housser, Yvonne McKague, 1898-1996
McLaughlin, Isabel, 1903-2002
Morris, Kathleen M., 1893-1986
Pepper, Kathleen, 1898-1994
Seath, Ethel, 1879-1963
Winter, William, 1909-1996
Organizations:
Canadian Group of Painters
Canadian Handicrafts Guild
Document Types:
Correspondence.
Negatives.
Photographs.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Title of item], Philip Clark Collection, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.

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Contact Information

Reference Services
Library and Archives 
National Gallery of Canada 
380 Sussex Drive 
Ottawa, Ontario 
K1N 9N4 

T 613-714-6000 ext. 6323 

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Box List

Box Folder
Box 1 File 1 Correspondence regarding donation 
File 2 Correspondence and photographs from Felix Brandtner 
File 3 Canadian Group of Artists. Letter, Patent and Memorandum of Agreement 
File 4 Photograph of "Quebec Impression" by Bertram Brooker 
File 5 Photograph of "British Columbia" by Emily Carr 
File 6 Photographs and negatives of Canadian Group of Painters Opening, "Mayfair" 
File 7 Canadian Group of Painters. Membership list, 1946 
File 8 Letters and photographs from Ethel Seath 
File 9 Letters and photographs from Kathleen M. Morris 
File 10 Photograph of "1937" by Yvonne McKague Housser 
File 11 Miscellaneous photographs 

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