Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [188-]–1987 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
83 photographs
6 postcards
1 sketchbook
1 folder of textual records
1 album
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
(Marie) Illy Gepe (1903-) was a ceramic artist born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the area that later became Czechoslovakia. She and her husband, Herbert Gepe, immigrated to Canada in 1935. Illy Gepe was an honourary member of the Women’s Art Association of Canada in Toronto, offering pottery classes there in 1952, and a friend of Florence Wyle and Frances Loring’s.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Collection consists of an album of photographs of Florence Wyle’s sculptures; photos of Wyle, Illy Gepe, Frances Loring, and others; unattached photos and postcards of sculptures; a sketchbook; newspaper articles about Loring & Wyle; and other material.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open. Access to Special Collections is by appointment only. Please contact the reference desk for more information.
Conditions governing reproduction
Various copyright holders. It is the researcher’s responsibility to obtain permission to publish any part of the collection
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Fonds includes 78 photographic prints and 4 negatives (photographic).
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Associated material: In 2017 an autographed copy of Florence Wyle’s Poems (Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1959) was withdrawn from the fonds and transferred to the AGO Library collection, as was a copy of Frances Loring, Florence Wyle [1969?] produced by Pollock Gallery, Toronto.
Notes area
Note
Source of title proper:Title of the fonds is based on provenance.
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Wyle, Florence (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Prepared by Gary Fitzgibbon, 2017. Uploaded and adapted by Nirvana Chainani, 2019