Colette Whiten (Birmingham, England 1945- ) is a Toronto-based sculptor and educator.
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Art Gallery of Ontario
Fonds also includes maquettes and material samples, as detailed in the series-level descriptions.
Fonds consists of documentation of Colette Whiten’s artistic career, including records of exhibitions, commissions, grants, awards, and experiments with materials. Documentation of Whiten’s public art collaborations with Paul Kipps is included. Fonds also includes records of Whiten’s teaching activity at several different institutions, including the Ontario College of Art.
Contains series:
1. Colette Whiten’s files
2. Teaching files
3. Documentation of art works
4. Project boxes
5. Experimental work and material samples
6. Publicity material
7. Personal / other photo documentation
The contents of this fonds were arranged by Amy Furness to reflect the order in which materials were kept by Colette Whiten as of April 2010. Inevitably there is some overlap among the contents of the series, particularly in the case of series 1, 3, and 4. For details, please see scope and content and arrangement notes for each series.
AGO Credit Line: Gift of Colette Whiten and Paul Kipps, 2011.
Further accruals are expected.
The materials now constituting the Colette Whiten fonds were transferred directly from the artist to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2010.
Prepared by Amy Marshall Furness, 2011.
Uploaded and adapted by Nirvana Chainani, 2019.
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http://ago.ca/sites/default/files/SC120.pdf