September 1998 Volume 22.2,22.3 Canadian Art Libraries Newsletter EDITORIAL J ARLIS/NA Vancouver in We hope that you enjoyed the last issue of the CARLIS Newsletter. Cheryl The Conference Committee for the worked out the new format that is much ARLIS/NA conference has been meeting easier to read and also has a nicer regularly since April to workout all the appearance. The computer allows much ARLIS/NA details for the conference more variety of format, as you know. here in Vancouver next March. Needless to say, there is a great deal of Both Cheryl and have been extremely I work to be done between now and then. busy planning for the ARLIS/NA Conference here in March 1999. The Conference Planning Advisory Unfortunately, the Newsletter has had to Committee was in Vancouver, June 25 - take second place at this time. For this 27 to hear reports from the members of reason, we are producing a double issue. the local committee. The arrangements In this way, we are actually incorporating met with their approval, for the most all the news that has been collected since We part. Everyone is enthusiastic about the previous issue. hope that this coming to Vancouver. That meeting solution is acceptable to everyone. also established the basic schedule for the various meetings, workshops, tours, etc. I want to thank Jill Patrick, Librarian and There has been a great deal of fiddling & Archivist of the Ontario College of Art and fussing with this schedule since Design for sending information about then, but a final schedule seems to be activities at the College. It is greatly very close at hand. appreciated. Marilyn Berger also sent a news note for inclusion. Thanks The Executive Board of ARLIS/NA met Marilyn. All items are gratefully at the beginning of August to give final received since it does add scope to the approval to the program. Our next most news that is collected here. important project is to prepare the material for the Preliminary Program. Melva Dwyer J. Editor Canadian members will be pleased to note that payment for the conference will be accepted in Canadian dollars this year. This is due to the concerted work of our Canadian representatives who have consistently pointed out the problems Canadian Art Libraries Newsletter that we experience with the low (and Canada. Another session looks at the fluctuating) Canadian dollar. At this history of art libraries in Canada. CHIN particular time, it is very necessary that will be hosting a session to keep us up to the devalued dollar is recognized as a date on their latest initiatives. real problem for all Canadians who would have to pay in American dollars. A special plenary session will examine issues of the repatriation of cultural Cheryl Siegel, local organizer and Co- artifacts and how this affects Northwest chair of the Program Committee, has Coast Art. There will also be a plenary been doing a marvelous job of session that focuses on library organizing every detail for the architecture in Vancouver. conference. Those of us who are working with her admire her Canadian speakers of note will include organizational ability. Moshe Safdie, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Trevor Boddy, Gloria We are looking forward to having a large Cranmer Webster, Rhodri Windsor number of Canadian delegates at the Liscombe and Elizabeth Johnson. conference. The program looks as if it will be very interesting, the tours are Your preliminary program will be good and we hope that the weather will arriving soon, and I hope that you'll all cooperate. There is much to do and see be able to give strong consideration to in Vancouver, even in March. Of course, attending this landmark conference. there are also the conference sessions to attend! Cheryl See you all then!! ititiCtititttltttikikitIk Melva CAMADIAM APT LIBPAPIES MEWSLfTTEP Canadian Sessions at VCLUME33,MOs:2&3 ARLIS/NA June/oepfembep 1998 ISSM 0702-7249 As one of the Co-Chairs of Programs for CAMADIAM ART LIBPARIES MEWSLEHER ARLIS/NA the conference in Vancouver, have been exceedingly is publisned Toup limes each qear 1 MELVA D>X^ER, EDITOR J. pleased to see so many proposals for CHERYL SIEGEL, PRODUCTIOM EDITOR sessions with important, timely and interesting Canadian content. These 2976MCBRIDEAVEMUE proposals came from Canadians and SURRREY, B.C. Americans and help to emphasize the V4A 3G6 concerns that we have in common. casicqel®vanapfqallep4.be.CO There will be a session that examines [email protected] censorship and the movement of sensitive materials between the U. S. and Canadian Art Libraries Newsletter News Notes Noel Harding, Robert Fones, Martha Fleming, Murray Favro, Christos Dikeakos, Chris Cram, Carl Beam, ARLIS/MOQ held their spring meeting Mowry Baden and Kim Adams. on May 29, 1998 at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. They met jointly with IFLA Section of Art Libraries Special the ARLIS/Ontario Chapter. From all Libraries Division, Newsletter 42:1, 1998, reports it was a great success. includes an article by Renata Guttman on Art and Architecture Librarianship in The Blackader-Lauterman Library, Canada, the Recent Past and the Present, McGill University, received a four pp. 2-4. Reports are also in the same month grant from Young Canada Works issue from Denmark, France, Germany in Science and Technology to create an and the Netherlands. on-line version of the index to the Canadian Architect and Builder, 1908- The Inuit Gallery, Vancouver, held a sale 1988. of native masks by Northwest Coast artists. Some of the proceeds of the sale Trevor Boddy does not like the went to replace the Alert Bay Big House, renovations to Canada House in London. which was destroyed by fire on August He expresses his views in an article in 11, 1997. the Globe and Mail July 4, 1998 (p.C6) On October 24, 1998, the Glenbow Canadian Tournal of Civil Engineering Museum will hold its second annual has devoted the December 1997 issue to ''Glenbow Exposed" fund raiser. This Confederation Bridge, spanning the year's theme 'Tiger Exposed" highlights Northumberland Channel between P.E.L New the Museum's Chinese treasures. and Brunswick. Louise Hawley Stone left a bequest of $45 Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps million to the Royal Ontario Museum. will give $10 millions to the Canada Council for the Arts to encourage special Murals by Vancouver artists Alan Wylie projects for the millennium. and Mike Svab which were in the domestic terminal of the Vancouver The eight paintings depicting First World International Airport were destroyed by War scenes which have hung in the workers doing renovations. Senate since 1921 are being restored. The Coalition to Save the Ontario Arts The last case Robert and Signe McMichael wished to launch against the Council was formed by a group of artists McMichael Gallery of Canadian Art was opposed to recent changes proposed for denied by the Supreme Court of Canada juries to give grants. The proposal in June 1998. allows non-artists to be appointed to the granting committee. Jill Patrick, librarian at the Ontario College of Art and Design, has produced Canada Council's Established Artist a four page history of the college. The Awards were given to Martha OCA was founded in 1876 as the Ontario Townsend, Joey Morgan, Arnaud Maggs, Canadian Art Libraries Newsletter School of Art by the Ontario Society of designated a national historic site by the Artists. Federal Government in February 1998. The National Gallery of Canada received After considerable controversy, works by Camille Pissaro and Picasso as a Vancouver City Council approved the gift from Sheila and Nahum Gilber of monument to AIDS victims. Artists Montreal. Bruce Wilson, Susanne Barrett and Marc Tessler will work on the eight by sixty- The Royal B.C. Museum, Victoria, now foot steel work. has an Imax theatre. The National Geographic Society is one of the sponsors for the theatre which opened June 26, People News 1998. Artist Joe Average received a Governor The Royal B.C. Museum, Victoria, will be General's Caring Canadian Award for his the only Canadian venue for a show of work supporting AIDS walks. 230 works by Leonardo da Vinci. The exhibition will run from October 1, 1998 - Ken Chan, a Toronto artist, received a February 28, 1999. Jean A. Chalmers award of $25,000 for 1998. The Smithsonian Institution has the world's largest collection of original Inuit Pierre Coupey, Capilano College artifacts. Most of the material has never instructor, has had an exhibition of been exhibited. paintings and prints at the Canadian Embassy, Tokyo —September 8 - October The murals in the interior of St. Anne's 27, 1998. Church, Toronto, are the work of members of the Group of Seven; Fred Haida native carver, Robert Davidson, Varley, Franklin Carmichael and J.E.W. has been commissioned by the White MacDonald. They are in great need of Rock, B.C. RCMP to commemorate the restoration, but funds for the restoration 125-year anniversary of the force in are not currently available. Canada. Joey Tannenbaum gave a bust of Pope Diane Ferland and Sylvie Belanger, two Gregory XV by Bernini to the Art Gallery Montreal artists, are pouring and of Ontario in April 1998. moulding glass to produce their art works. This is a revival of an ancient The University of British Columbia craft. School of Architecture has opened a gallery in downtown Vancouver. The Jonathan Franklin, formerly head of the School wishes to be able to interact with Heinz Archives and Library at the various activist groups working in the National Portrait Gallery, London, has downtown area. been appointed Head of Collections and Data Base Management at the National The Winnipeg Exchange District with Gallery of Canada Library, Ottawa. over 60 buildings of historic interest, was Canadian Art Libraries Newsletter Bill Gates purchased Winslow Homer's 15 members to administer $11.7 million painting "Lost on the Grand Banks" for to the B. C. arts community. $30 million. Burnaby painter Irene McCutcheon Jack Granatstein is the new director of launched a suit in February against the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. His North Vancouver artist Lutz Haufschild. plans call for developing a higher profile McCutcheon accuses Haufschild of for the museum. reproducing some of her work without permission. The trial date is set for Gilles Hebert was appointed to succeed spring 1999. Terry Fenton as director of the Mendel Art Gallery as of September 1, 1998. John Neilson, a Victoria architect, was Hebert is the founder of the St. Norbert elected President of the Architectural Arts and Cultural Centre housed in a Institute of British Columbia in May former monastery near Winnipeg. 1998. Toronto photographer, GeoffreyJames., Barbara Paterson, Edmonton artist, has known for his studies of villas and been commissioned to produce a gardens, has produced a photographic sculptural work of the five women essay called "The Running Fence." The responsible for obtaining equal rights for fence in question was built on the U. S. women in 1929. The bronze statue will border to prevent illegal immigration. be erected in Calgary in October 1999 and Ottawa a year later. Toronto conceptual artist Micah Lexier had an exhibition of his work at the Sculptor Evan Penny was named winner ~ Musee d'art Contemporain, Montreal of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Stanton July 3 - September 20, 1998. award of $38,000. Lee-Ann Martin was appointed head Michele Picard was elected vice president curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, of SSAC at the May meeting. Picard is Regina, earlier this year. head of research in the archives of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Eva Matsuzaki, Vancouver architect, was New elected president of the Royal Artist Joseph Plaskett, a Architectural Institute of Canada in July, Westminster native who has lived in 1998. Matsuzaki is the first woman to Paris and England for most of his life, hold this position. celebrated his eightieth birthday this summer. Marc Mayer was appointed director of Toronto's Power Plant Gallery in March Roland Poulin, Montreal artist, received 1998. Mayer came from the Albright- the Jean A. Chalmers award of $25,000 in Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York. 1998. Ann Mortifee has been named as head of Artist Mary Pratt was awarded the $50,000 the B. C. Arts Council, formerly chaired Molson Prize in the Arts. It is by Mavor Moore. The Council consists of Canadian Art Libraries Newsletter administered by the Canada Council and recognizes lifetime achievement. Kenneally, Rhona Richman. "Depictions of Progress: Images of Montreal in Jean-Louis Roux was appointed Contemporary Guidebooks, 1839-1907." chairman of the Canada Council for the Journal of the Society for the Study of Arts in May 1998. Architecture in Canada 23:1 (1998): 7-13. Thecia Schiphorst, media artist and Leila, Matthew C. "Ottawa's Path is & instructor at Emily Carr Institute of Art Clear." Globe Mail July 6 (1998): A9. and Design, has been awarded the $10,000 (Parliament Buildings) Petro-Canada Award. Morisset, Lucie K. "La semiogenese de la Ron Shuebrook is the new Vice- forme urbaine, de I'image a la realite: president/ Academic at the Ontario Haute-Ville/ Basse-Ville, ou la College of Art and Design. Mr. diffamation du quartier Saint-Roch Shuebrook has been at the University of (Quebec) 1690-1990." Journal of the Guelph where he held various Society for the Study of Architecture in appointments associated with Fine Arts Canada 23:1 (1998): 14-22. programs. Rosen, Taffi. "Guggenheim Bilbao- Matthew Teitelbaum, who was chief Museum of the Century Opens in curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, was Spain." Artfocus 6:1 (1998): 14-16. appointed director when Maxwell Anderson resigned to take up a position Vattay, Sharon. "Visions of Toronto: with the Whitney Museum of American Urbanity versus Industry." Journal of New Art in York this July. the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada 23:1 (1998): 23-29. Cornelia Wyngaarden, media artist, won a 1998 VIVA award of $10,000 in Weder, Adele. "Highrises Hit New Vancouver in April, 1998. Lows." Globe & Mail May 2 (1998): CI, C9. (Canadian architects working abroad Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, native design offbeat buildings) was awarded VIVA award artist, a for 1998 worth $10,000. Weder, Adele. "Speaking a Universal & Language of Worship." Globe Mail Articles-Architecture August 8 (1998): C9. (Har-El Synagogue, West Vancouver) Argyle, Graham, 'The Mountain of God." Arts Alive 4:1(1998): 21-22 (the Har-El Synagogue, West Vancouver) Articles Art - Boddy, Trevor, "Fear and Post- Anderson, Mary Ann "From Sulphur & S. Modernism in Vancouver." Globe Piles to Social Statements" Arts Alive Mail July 27(1998): A9. (Vancouver's 4:2(1998):17. (Profile of Sherrill Hardy, leaky condo problems threaten cultural Deep Cove artist) roots.) Call for Papers Section of Art Libraries IFLA Bangkok, August 20 1999 - 28, The sessions for the Section for Art Libraries are planned under the general conference theme, Libraries as Gateways to an Enlightened World. The Art Libraries will focus on topics dealing with the impact oftechnology on art libraries today. More specifically, the sessions will deal with the following: Open Session - formal papers • Electronic art information - creating it, disseminating it, archiving it - is it wordi the cost? sub-topics: The demand for images on the Web - cost, quality, rights and access. Archiving exhibition Websites Librarians as Webmasters Web Cataloging the Computerised indexes in art - easy access vs. difficult technical support Workshop — interactive, short presentation • Blurring the boundaries: Should art librarians work with archivists, curators, educators, or become more specialized? sub-topics: Changing role ofart librarians in the electronic age Teamwork: creating Websites in art organizations The art bibliographer - a creature ofthe past? The art librarian as mediator The format of the workshop will be interactive. The papers will not be read, but the main points will be presented by the speakers. A moderator will comment on the paper, asking provocative questions to stimulate group participation. The pro))osals for papers are due on December 1, 1998. You must include the title plus a 100 - 200 word abstract, to give a briefdescrij)tion ofthe paj)er. You will be notified by January 1, 1999 regarding the acceptance ofyour paper. You will then have until April 1, 1999 to complete the paper and send it in lo ihe (^hair of lh(* Seclion ofAr( Libraries. The pajjer for the Open Session should be no more than 8 pages on A4 paper, double s|)aced. The Workshop presentation papers should be no longer than 4 pages on A4, double spaced. Send your j)roj)osal to: jeannette Dixon Chair, IFItV Section ofArt Libraries c/o Hirsch Library, Museum of line Arts, Houston P.O. Box 6826 TX Houston, 77265 USA Trl: 12 713 639 7326 Kax: 12 713 639 7399 email: [email protected] Digitized by the Internet Archive 2011 with funding from in The Ontario College of Art & Design http://www.archive.org/details/canadianartlibra2202cana