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Title
Date(s)
- [189-?]–[191-?] (Creation)
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Series
Extent and medium
30 photographs : b&w prints
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Gordon Conn (ca.1888-1977) was an art collector and supporter of visual art in Toronto. He studied to be a musician and worked as a painter in his youth. Although he did not pursue a career as an artist, he maintained connections with many artists. He was a friend of the painter Kenneth Forbes (1892-1980) who painted Conn’s portrait in 1935. Together with Forbes, Gordon Conn founded the Ontario Institute of Painters devoted to the display of painting based on what Forbes called “traditional” art values. Conn turned over his studio in Wychwood Park in Toronto—The Little Gallery—to a series of one-man shows of its members. Near the end of his life, he donated paintings by artists represented in this collection to public art galleries in Ontario.
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Scope and content
Series comprises photographs of Canadian painter Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles (Ottawa 1866–1928 Riverton, N.H.) and her paintings taken around the turn of the 20th century at an unidentified location.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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No further accruals at this time
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Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
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Notes area
Note
Elizabeth Annie Beach was known as Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles after her marriage to Farquhar McGillivray Knowles in 1890.
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Name access points
- Knowles, Elizabeth McGillivray (Subject)
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Originally Prepared in 2003
Language(s)
- English