Fonds - Newfoundland Society of Art fonds

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Newfoundland Society of Art fonds

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  • Textual record

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  • 1938-1939, 1953 (Creation)
    Creator
    Newfoundland Society of Art

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1 v. of textual records

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Name of creator

(1925-1937)

Administrative history

The Newfoundland Society of Art was founded in 1925 by Fanny (Hector) McNeil (1869-1928), suffragist, and Albert E. (A.E.) Harris (1900-1933), artist and engineer, as well as other members of the Old Colony Club (a St. John's social group). Members included Agnes Ayre (artist), Millicent King Penney (artist), Elsie Herder, Gwen Mewx (Cubist artist), and Kathleen Kelly (artist).

The Society's mandate was to sponsor annual exhibitions of local and imported art, and to export local art. From 1925-1927, the Society held three exhibitions, which included local art, as well as paintings imported from Canada. The Society folded in 1937, following a series of financial troubles, as well as the deaths of its founders, McNeil (1928) and Harris (1933). The Society was replaced by the existing St. John's Art Students Club.

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Scope and content

The fonds consists of one minute book recording the activities of the Newfoundland Society of Art (1938-39), a membership list (1953), and a clipping (1978) which reprints a 1928 exhibition announcement.

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Acquired from Millicent King Penney, Artist.

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  • English

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    No restrictions

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    No further accruals are expected.

    Physical description

    The bound notebook measures 21 cm x 17 cm.

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    M-111

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    Status

    Draft

    Level of detail

    Partial

    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    Created - May 17, 2013

    Language of description

    • English

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