Painting with the River (original) (raw)

Doris Slater Titus: The Bathwater Menagerie

Doris Slater Titus - Retrospective, 1941-1964, 2021

Doris Mildred Titus (nee Slater) was born outside Chatham, Ontario in 1917. She attended the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) on scholarship and focused on commercial art, later graduating in 1939. In 1941, she began illustrating comic books for Anglo-American Publications. The drawings for her first comic, “Penny’s Diary,” made her the first woman comic book artist in Canada. In 1954, Titus moved to Brantford, Ontario and was hired as an art teacher at Brantford Collegiate Institute. During this time, she founded the Sketch Club at Glenhyrst Gardens (now Glenhyrst Art Gallery), participated in exhibitions, and befriended artist Toni Onley. Her experiments with abstract painting led to the use of unconventional mediums like her own bathwater. Titus left Brantford for Ottawa in 1960 to teach at the Ottawa High School of Commerce. Tragically, she died in an automobile accident in June, 1964 at the age of 47. For her contributions to the Canadian comic book industry, she was inducted into the Shuster Awards Hall of Fame for Canadian comic book creators in 2015. Her work resides in several private collections in Canada and England, and in the permanent collection of Glenhyrst Art Gallery.

CAN DO: Photographs and other material from the Women's Art Library Magazine Archive

2015

Curated by Mo Throp and Maria Walsh, this collection of mainly black and white photographs from the Women’s Art Library Magazine archive has rarely been seen outside the confines of its black boxes in the Special Collections at Goldsmiths University library. The photographs are one of the material remains of a dynamic independent art publication dedicated to the debates and documentation of women’s art from 1983 to 2002. The magazine began life in 1983 as the Women Artists Slide Library Newsletter, acquiring, over the course of its 20-year run, the titles: Women Artists Slide Library Journal (1986); Women's Art Magazine (1990); and make: the magazine of women’s art (1996). Artists submitted photographs of their work for publication, some images were printed in the magazine, most were not, but all were carefully stored in the library stacks at Goldsmiths where the curators were (re)introduced to them by Althea Greenan, curator of the Women's Art Library in Special Collections...

Finding Lily F. Whaite: Exploring Victorian Women Artists’ Experiences through Practice-Led Research

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2018

Henry Clarence Whaite (1828-1912) was an English artist, drawn to North Wales by his desire to paint the landscape, becoming part of a burgeoning arts scene based around Betws-y-Coed. Lily F. Whaite (1876-1959), his daughter, was an artist in her own right and one of the founding members of the first women's arts group in Wales, the Gwynedd Ladies’ Arts Society. The archive of H. Clarence and Lily F. Whaite, located at the National Library of Wales, is extensive in nature and includes a number of photographs, sketches, personal papers, and, crucially, personal letters among father, daughter, and Jane Alice Whaite (1836-1906), Lily's mother. Of particular interest for this examination are Lily Whaite's letters, spanning her preteens until her 30s, which pay heed to the life of a female artist in Wales. The letters (and the wider archive) form an impression of the life of a woman artist active in both local and national artist circles, her experiences living in Wales and o...

A Review of Hillary Chute's Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

Over the past few years, Hillary Chute has become one of the best-known authors of academic articles on “graphic narratives” (a term she rightfully prefers to the famous misnomer, “graphic novel,” as first pointed out in the special issue of Modern Fiction Studies she co-edited with Marianne DeKoven in 2006). Graphic Women is her first collection of essays on the topic. Her volume is most welcome, as there are currently very few studies on the prolific but little-discussed production of contemporary comics by women. It is a book written with enthusiasm, clarity and the ability to condense an obviously exhaustive body of literature that the author has gone through and considered before putting pen to paper.

Women in Canadian Art Museums: 1995-2000

A critical look at the presence of women artists in five Canadian art museums in the second half of the 1990s: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The National Gallery, the Glenbow Museum and the Vancouver Art Gallery.