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L.A.C. Panton fonds
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L.A.C. Panton’s file arrangement

Series contains published and unpublished material relating to Panton’s personal and professional life, including correspondence, clippings, lectures, notes, reproductions and photocopies. Correspondence relating to his tenure as President of the Ontario Society of Artists is included, during the controversy involving the secession of the Group of Seven and other matters. Among the papers was a list with file designations (see file 1). The first series follows this arrangement.

Panton, L.A.C. (Lawrence Arthur Colley)

A - OSA

File contains material other than correspondence relating to the OSA: memos, reports, published Constitution and Annual Report, and material related to annual exhibitions

E - General Correspondence

File contains correspondence relating to a number of topics, including letters to newspapers and magazines, problems with the neighbours, slights from Arthur [Heming?], correspondence with Kenneth Wells regarding art reviews, letters from Bill Palmer, art instructor at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute School of Art, and others

M - Clippings - Art

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings relating to exhibitions, artists, and views on modern art.

A - OSA [Correspondence]

Letters include congratulations on Panton's election as President, correspondence with Lawren Harris regarding the formation of the Canadian Group of Painters, letters from Fred Brigden, Thoreau MacDonald, C.W. Jefferys, Franz Johnston, letters to the editors of the Canadian Forum and The Globe and Empire, correspondence with G.A. Reid, the Ontario Department of Education, Frank Carmichael, Eric Brown, Florence Wyle and others.

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