Jennifer Dickson fonds [multiple media]
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Jennifer Dickson fonds [multiple media]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:10 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records: (Electronic) The finding aid provides a file list of the textual records. MSS2267 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000785.pdf(Electronic) Art and photographic works for the donation made in 2001 have been listed in a WordPerfect file format, available on file and on shared drives. Material donated in 2004 has been listed on an Excel spreadsheet available on file and shared drives. (90: Open)Moving images (Electronic) See MISACS database for item level description. (90: Open)Graphic material (photo) (Electronic) Item level list relating to material from BAN 2001-00133-9. The barcodes listed in the fnding aid are no longer valid. Finding aid describes material from volumes 640 to 652.. (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002333.pdfBarcode container list (Electronic) A list of art items and their permanent volumes is located on the acquisition files and an electronic version may be found on the shared drive. (90: Open) -
Record information Jennifer Dickson fonds [multiple media]
Date:1881-2005 (predominantly 1940-2003).Reference:R8315-0-2-EType of material:Textual material, Photographs, Art, Moving images, Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:185559Date(s):1881-2005 (predominantly 1940-2003).Place of creation:CanadaAdded country of publication:England, South Africa, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, France, Italy, WalesExtent:10.65 m of textual records.
ca. 4,346 photographs : multiple processes.
469 prints : multiple techniques.
314 reproductions : photomechanical prints.
24 drawings.
2 watercolours.
102 printing plates.
2 mixed media theses
2 mixed media shadow boxes
1 videocassette : U-matic 3/4 inch.
2 .wav files : 994 MB.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:The fonds consists of the personal and professional records of the artist Jennifer Dickson. They include the following series: personal material and correspondence; exhibition and other projects files; professional records; Royal Academy of Arts records; business files; travel records; and publicity and promotional material (including two photographs in a scrapbook).
In addition to the manuscript records, the fonds includes a substantial amount of art and photographic material which have been described in the following series: art records and photographic records.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Dickson, Jennifer, 1936- : Jennifer Dickson was born in South Africa in 1936 and went to England to study art, at Goldsmiths' College, in 1954. After graduating in 1959, she taught first at the Eastbourne School of Art and then, from 1962 to 1968, at the Brighton School of Art, while continuing her own studies in Paris under the renowned printmaker Stanley William Hayter, at Atelier 17, from 1960 to 1965. Dickson emigrated to Canada in 1969, settling initially in Montreal, where her first Canadian solo exhibition was held at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, and then in Ottawa, where she began a long association with Wallack Galleries.
Jennifer Dickson is perhaps best-known as a printmaker, although she is also a painter, photographer, collagist, sculptor, and historian. During the course of her career, she has produced some 31 portfolios or suites of original etchings, often preoccupied with gardens (usually sites in England or Europe but including some Canadian) and largely consisting of hand-coloured etchings based on her own photographic images. She has also worked with images of nudes and has produced three-dimensional "shadow boxes". Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Nickle Arts Museum (Calgary), Ottawa Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston) and Il Centro Culturale Canadese (Rome), and is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, among other institutions. She regularly exhibits with the Royal Academy of Arts in England, to which she was elected an Associate Member in 1970 and an Academician in 1976. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers (1965) and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1978). She lectures widely on the subject of art and gardens, and is an activist for the preservation of historic gardens and archaeological sites.
Dickson has also been an activist promoting the work of Canadian artists in Canada, particularly that of women. She was involved in an exhibition of women artists in Montreal, Artfemme '75, and organized Artfemme 1 in Ottawa in 1982. A founding member of the Print and Drawing Council of Canada, she co-ordinated its Imprint '76 exhibition. She has been associated with the Canadian Artists Representation, a lobby organization which champions the rights of Canadian artists, for which she conducted a study of the acquisitions practices of the National Gallery of Canada in the late 1970s and again in the early 1980s. She is the author of a book of photographs, poems and meditations, "The Hospital for Wounded Angels" (1987).
Dickson has received many honours and awards for her work, among them the Prix des Jeunes Artistes pour Gravure, Paris Biennale (1963); the George A. Reid Award, Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers (1973); a Special Edition Purchase Award, World Print Competition, San Francisco Museum of Art (1973); the Walter Moos Award at the First Canadian Biennale of Prints and Drawings (1978); a Biennale Prize at the 5th Norwegian International Print Biennale (1980); and the Victor Tolgesy Arts Award from the Council for the Arts in Ottawa (2002). She received an honorary degree from the University of Alberta in 1988 and was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1995.
Jennifer Dickson married Ronald Sweetman, an accountant and jazz historian, in 1962 and they had a son, William (Bill), in 1965. Bill Sweetman is a filmmaker, who collaborated with Dickson on her projects "Looking for Bianca Capello", 1989, and "The Last Silence", 1993.Additional information:General note:The records were donated by the artist's husband, Ronald Sweetman, in 2001 and 2005.Source:PrivateOther accession no.:2009-0045 VSA -
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Textual records: Access restrictions.Volume [R8315] 951--962[Consultation Open]Volume [R8315] 984--994[Consultation Restricted]Graphic (photo)[Consultation Open]Volume [R8315][Consultation Open]52--803;[Consultation Open]972--983;[Consultation Open]972 Item no. assigned by LAC 804--813[Consultation Open]973 Item no. assigned by LAC 814--825[Consultation Open]975 Item no. assigned by LAC 826--834[Consultation Open]977 Item no. assigned by LAC 835--840[Consultation Open]979 Item no. assigned by LAC 841--846[Consultation Open]981 Item no. assigned by LAC 847--851[Consultation Open]Graphic (art)[Consultation Open]Moving images (video)[Consultation Open]Sound recordings : electronic[Consultation Closed pending processing]Terms of use:The recipient of copies is responsible for determining whether material is subject to copyright and for ascertaining the name of the person or organization holding copyright. The recipient is also responsible for determining whether any use of copyrighted material does or does not constitute an infringement of copyright under the Copyright Act.
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