Arquivo F2077 - Isabel McLaughlin fonds

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Isabel McLaughlin fonds

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  • 1903-2002 (Produção)
    Produtor
    McLaughlin, Isabel
  • 1892-2002 (Produção)
    Produtor
    McLaughlin (family)

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Descrição física

6.83 m of textual records and other material

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(1892-2002)

História biográfica

Adelaide Mowbray, school teacher, and Robert Samuel (R.S.) McLaughlin, founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company and the first president of General Motors Canada, married in 1898. They had five daughters: Eileen was born in 1898, followed by Mildred in 1900, Isabel in 1903, Hilda in 1905, and Eleanor in 1908. The sisters grew up at Parkwood, the family's Oshawa estate.

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(1903-2002)

História biográfica

Isabel Grace McLaughlin (1903-2002) was an important Canadian modernist painter. She was born in Oshawa, Ontario, to Adelaide Mowbray and Robert Samuel (R.S.) McLaughlin, the founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company and the first president of General Motors Canada. Isabel grew up with her four sisters at Parkwood, her family's Oshawa estate. For her final year of secondary school, she moved to Montreal. Isabel then went to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne (1920-1924) and received a Diplôme de Civílisation Français and a Certificat d’Études Françaises. After leaving Paris, Isabel moved to Toronto and studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) under Arthur Lismer (1925-1926). After leaving OCA, she joined the Art Students’ League and continued her studies with Lismer and Yvonne McKague. In her late twenties, Isabel traveled to Paris to study at the Scandinavian Academy (1929-1930). She returned to Toronto a year later. In 1933, Isabel helped found the Canadian Group of Painters (CGP); in 1939, she became the group’s first woman president. Isabel was also an active member of the Heliconian Club, a Toronto-based organization for women engaged in arts and letters. She developed friendships with many prominent Canadian artists, such as A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Prudence Heward, Gordon Webber, Alexandra Luke, Rody Kenny Courtice, Bobs Cogill Haworth, and Peter Haworth. She traveled extensively, sojourning with her friends and painting landscapes in the American Southwest, the Carribean, and throughout Canada. Isabel is an important figure in Canadian art not only because of her own painting, but also because she was an avid supporter of her fellow artists, both on the individual level and on the community level. Notable among Isabel’s acts of patronage, are her contributions to the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. The Gallery, which is named after Isabel’s grandfather, now houses the Isabel McLaughlin Gallery, which boasts a collection of over 3,600 works of art. Despite her continued interest in art, Isabel gave up painting in the 1960s for unknown reasons. Isabel was honoured with several awards for her patronage of the arts and her activity within the art community. She was named a Fellow of the Ontario College of Art (1977), and she was a recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal (1990), the Order of Canada for Visual Arts (1998), and the Order of Ontario (1993). Isabel McLaughlin died at her home in Toronto on November 26, 2002.

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Âmbito e conteúdo

The fonds consist predominantly of correspondence, photographs, and educational records from Isabel McLaughlin's late adolescence and adulthood; however, a few letters and educational records are from Isabel's childhood in Oshawa. The collection reflects Isabel's relationship with her family and friends and her involvement in the arts community, both as a patron and as an artist. Isabel's friendship and patronage extended to many well-known Canadian artists, including A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Anne Savage, Arthur Lismer, Prudence Heward, Yvonne McKague Housser, and Timothy Findley. Her involvement in arts organizations, such as the Art Students' League, the Canadian Group of Painters, the Haliconian Club, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, are also reflected in this collection. The fonds consist of the following series: Artistic activities, Cards, Correspondence, Education, Exhibition, Oshawa, Paris, Personal, and Photographs. Also included in this fonds is the sous-fonds of Robert Samuel McLaughlin. This sous-fonds contains material that Isabel had gathered together and seperated from her own records that pertained, or had belonged, to her father, R.S.McLaughlin.

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The R.S. McLaughlin sous-fonds was donated by Miss McLaughlin in 2001

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  • inglês
  • francês

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Localização de originais

2216.1
2303.37
5022.3
5078.1
F3 C1.1.003
F3 D6
F5 E11
F5 E12
SR1069
(302) Map 66.1

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Open

Termos que regulam o uso, reprodução e publicação

Copyright may apply.

Materiais associados

R. S. McLaughlin fonds

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No further accruals are expected

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Partial

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Description created on 2003-08-27. Last updated 19/06/2015.
Archivist(s): Heather Home, Clelia Scala

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  • inglês

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  • Prateleira: 2216.1
  • Prateleira: 2303.37
  • Prateleira: 5022.3
  • Prateleira: 5078.1
  • Prateleira: F3 C1.1.003
  • Prateleira: F5 E11
  • Prateleira: F5 E12
  • Prateleira: SR1069
  • Mapoteca: (302) Map 66.1
  • Prateleira: F3 D6
  • Prateleira: 2213.6 SE
  • Mapoteca: Map 5
  • Prateleira: F5 E10.1