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Nan Cheney fonds File
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U.S.A.

Clippings, brochures, and announcements of American art and artists. There is a clipping about photography as well as a 1936-1937 circular from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

U.K.

Clippings relating to Dylan and Caitlin Thomas and to the Mitford family; there is also a leaflet about woodcuts, as well as a booklet “Tank and Tank Folk” by Eric Kennington.

UBC

1957 – Fracture of the Talus [Dr. Storr] [notes, sketches (some part col.), photographic prints]
1957 – Glomus Jugulare Tumor [Dr. R. Taylor] [col. drawings on boards, offprint, sketches]

UBC

Undated – [Hand Studies]
Undated – [Full length body outline, enlarged forearm]
Undated – [Arterial Studies] [on boards]
Undated – [Retina] [col. drawing]
Undated – Deep dissection of forearm [photographic prints]
Undated – [Abdominal surgery on infant] [3 photographic prints; 2 sets]
Undated – Studies of tendons in hands] [on boards]
Undated – [Throat studies]
Undated – [Kidney studies] [1 part col.]
Undated – [Abdominal studies]
Undated – [Back muscles]
Undated – [Bone study] [on board]
Undated – Fibromyomata of uterus [col., on board]

UBC

1952 – [Unititled] [Dr. H.H. Boucher] [on board]
1952 – Thromboendarterectomy [Dr. Alan McKenzie] [sketches & notes; 1 mounted on board]
1953-54 - [Stomach] [Dr. Musgrove]
1953-54 – [Various studies] [Dr. W. Boyd]
1954 – Body Profile Outline Chart [Dr. R.B. Kerr] [with cover letter]
1954? – [Stomach sections] [Dr. F.R.C. Johnstone
1954 – [Brain study]
1955 – [Kidney tumors] [Dr. Taylor] [notes and sketches]
1957 – Gall bladder [Dr. Lesk] [notes & sketches]
1957 – Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis [Dr. Taylor]

UBC

1953 – Aortic Homograft [Dr. Alan McKenzie] [sketches (1 mounted on board), notes, & article with 2 figs. By Cheney] (oversize), 8 items.
1954-55 – Body Profile Charts [Dr. McCreary] [Includes also caricatures of Dr. McCreary] (oversize), 17 items.
1954-56 – Appartatus - - Rats - - Dogs - - Etc. [Dr. H. Copp] [some on boards] (oversize), 26 items.

UBC

1957 – Lung Sections [Dr. Wm. Trapp] (oversize), 17 items.
1957 – Kidneys [Dr. John Balfour] [1 part col.] (oversize), 4 items.
1961 – Diagram [of apparatus] [Dr. J. Henke] (oversize), 9 items.

Three unpublished manuscripts on Emily Carr

“Emily Carr” by Ruth Humphrey, n.d., 8 pages
“Emily Carr Tribute” by Dr. G.G. Sedgwick on the March 9 national network 4:15-4:30pm, 1945
“Emily Carr: An Interpretation” by Jane Covernton, Honours Essay History 498 Simon Fraser University, 1973.

Subject file Max Brodel

Works with Brodel Illustrations and other items, 1924-1941.
1924 – Cullen, Thomas S. “A Progressively Enlarging Ulcer of the Abdominal Wall Involving the Skin and Fat, Following Drainage of an Abdominal Abcess Apparently of Appendiceal Origin.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics May 1924, 579-82.
1939 – [Ear Channel] [1 leaf]
1941 – [Inner ear] [1 leaf; obverse has: Inner ear, by P.D. Malone, 1945, “Based in large part on the preliminary sketches and studies of Max Brodel”]

Caricature of Brodel and Menchen at the piano, 1921-22, [mounted on board], 1 item.

Articles on Brodel’s work:
Brodel, Max. “Medical Illustration.” [typescript] 16 p.
Cullen, Thomas S. “Max Brodel, 1870-1941: Director of the First Department of Art as Applied to Medicine in the World.” [photocopy] 29 p.

Smith, Gordon

  • RBSC-ARC-1121-4-19
  • File
  • November 19, 1957, November 4, 1966
  • Part of Nan Cheney fonds

Clippings, notices of exhibitions, and postcards pertaining to the artist’s activities. In addition, the file contains and extract from “Critics at Large.” C.B.C. November 19, 1957, on Smith and a copy of a letter by Smith to Time Magazine November 4, 1966 pertaining to their story on him.

Smith, Gordon

Clippings relating to his activities as well as notices of exhibitions. There is a booklet put out by the Vancouver Art Gallery on his life and work; also postcards (6) written to Nan Cheney.

Reid, Bill

Newspaper and periodical clippings pertaining to his activities; cards; his forward to Haida Monumental Art.

Profiles of Nan Cheney

Correspondence and memoranda from Cheney’s friends and family, 1985-1990
Clippings and notices, 1961-1986.

Plaskett, Joseph

1 newspaper clipping pertaining to his life and work, announcements of exhibitions, and an announcement of and catalogue for his exhibition at Canada House, London.

Plaskett, Joe

Clipping, notices of exhibitions, postcard, and Christmas card relating to his activities

Pepper, G.D.

Announcement of and catalogue for a memorial exhibition of his war paintings, 1964.

Onley, Toni

Clippings from newspapers and magazines relating to his activities, and announcements of exhibitions of his work.

Newton, Lillias Torrance

  • RBSC-ARC-1121-4-14-16
  • File
  • 1959, September 6, 1946 to September 21, 1971, 1972
  • Part of Nan Cheney fonds

Clippings (17) and biographical information relating to the Montreal artist’s portrait painting as well as postcards, prints of portraits and a photograph of Cheney and Newton, 1959. The file contains letters (12) from Lilias Newton to Nan Cheney September 6, 1946 to September 21, 1971, including 2 letters not dated. A letter from Bobby Dyde (Mrs. A. Palunt) to Cheney pertains to the conferring of an honorary doctorate degree on Lilias Newton at the University of Alberta June 1972.

Newton, Lilias Torrance

1 clipping pertaining to her work, a copy of her portrait of Dr. Sedgewick, 1949, and a photograph of one painting. The folder includes 2 letters from Jo Newton re: Lilias Newton, 1979-1980, as well as an obit appraisal, 1980.

Medical Illustration

Johns Hopkins, 1921-22, 14 items.
1921 - Vocal Cords [sic] of a pig [col. sketch]
1921 - Problem set by Prof. Brodel [Abdominal cavity]
1921 - To demonstrate Ross board technique [on board]
1921 - [Serratus Anterior] [on board]
1922 - Pig’s vocal chords [col. sketch]
1922 - Negro Male [cranial section]
1922 - White Female [cranial section]
1922 - Negro [facial muscles]
1922 - Art. and veins … dissected down to intestine [col. sketch on board]
1922 - [Brain sections]
1922 - [Untitled] [on board]

Publication, 1921, 1 item.
Byers, W. Gordon M. “A Case of Intermittent Exophthalmos.” Archives of Opthamology 1, no. 6, 569-573. Offprint. [presentation copy; 1 plate by Cheney]

Medical Illustration

UBC, 1951-62, 37 items.
1958? – Vaginal hysterectomy [Dr. J. Harrison] [notes & sketches]
1960? – Apparatus [Dr. A. Mackenzie]
1961 – [Untitled] [Dr. K. K. Parnell]

Subject file Max Brodel, Works with Brodel Illustrations, 1912-1941.
1912 – Banquet of the American Gynecological Society, 28 May. Menu. [Cover art by Brodel] [1 folded card, 2 mounted enlargements of the design]
1914 ? – Cullen, Thomas S. “Unusual Cases Illustrating Points in Diagnosis and Treatment.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, n.d., 1-6. [Reprint]
1917 – Cullen, Thomas S. “The Surgical Methods of Dealing with Pelvic Infections.” Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Aug., 134-46. [Reprint]
1921 – Cullen, Thomas S. “Three cases of Subperitoneal, Pedunculated Adenomyoma.” Archives of Surgery 2 (May 1921): 443-454. [Reprint]
1921 – Cullen, Thoman S. “Early Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Cervix.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, Aug., 134-44. [Reprint]
1921? – Cullen, Thomas S. “Further Notes on Diseases of the Umbilicus.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, n.d., 1-27. [Reprint]
1922 – Cullen, Thomas S. “The Uses of Sutures as Tractors in the Vaginal Operation for Prolapsus.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 (Nov. 1922): 1-8. [Reprint]
1923 – Darner, H. Lauran. “The End-Results in Nearly Three Hundered Cases in which the Gall Bladder was Drained – Not Removed.” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, Nov., 579-98. [Reprint]

Medical Illustration

McGill, 1932-36, 7 items.
1932 – Corrected Transposition in Incomplete Heterotaxy – Posterior View [for Dr. Maude
Abbott’s book on congenital Heart Conditions] [photographic print]
1932? – Incomplete Heterotaxy – View of right auricle [Dr. Maude Abbott] [photographic print]
1934 – Congenital Polycystic Kidney [colour transparency]
1934 – Hypoplasia of Kidneys [photographic print]
1934 – Papillary Carcinoma of the Bladder [photographic print] (2 copies)
1935 – [Heart] –Ruptured post. Wall lt. Ventricle [Dr. Maude Abbott] [on board]

Publications, 1934, 6 items
1934 – Birkett, Herbert S. “Lipoma of the Larynx – Intrinsic in Origin.” Reprint from Festschrift fur Prof. Dr. Ino. Kubo. (1 plate only)
1934 – Birkett, Herbert S. “Lipoma of the Laryunx – Intrinsic in Origin.” Offprint from
Journal of Laryngology and Otology 49 (Nov. 1934): 733-740. (2 plates by Cheney; 2 presentation copies, 1 inscribed)

Medical Illustration

Maria Wishart (clippings) [photocopies]
Anna Zinkeisen (article in Studio, Apr. 1954, 114-115)

Clippings file, 1957-1981, 26 items.
Medical Illustration, 1957-1980
UBC personalities, 1965-1981

Medical Illustration

Johns Hopkins, 1921-22, 2 items.
1921 – [Bone fragment], inscribed “1st Medicla Drawing by Nan Cheney” [on board] (oversize)
1922 – [Untitled] [on board] (oversize)

UBC, 1951-62, 30 items
Undated – [Sketches for a crest for the UBC Medical School] [some col.] (oversize)
Undated – [Earthworm studies] (oversize)
Undated – [Brain views] [overlays] (oversize)
Undated – Cardiac Arrest [on board] (oversize)

McGill

1923 – [Chest cavity] [photographic print]
1923 – Cancer of Kidney [photographic print, on board]
1923? – [Abdominal studies] [on board]
1924 – Aplastic Kidney [photographic print] (2 copies)
1924 – Infectious Granuloma (left) [Dr. Mackenzie] [photographic print] (2 copies)
1924 – Hydronephrosis - - Anterior View [photographic print] (2 copies)
1924 – Hydronephrosis - - Posterior View [photographic print] (2 copies)

Macdonald, J.W.G.

  • RBSC-ARC-1121-4-13
  • File
  • March 21, 1939 to June 27, 1974
  • Part of Nan Cheney fonds

Letters (6) from J.W.G. Macdonald to Nan Cheney, March 21, 1939 to June 27, 1974, relating to his painting. Letters (2) from R. Ann Pollock, National Gallery of Canada, to Cheney, 1969, pertaining to the loan of a Macdonald letter for research purposes.

MacDonald, Jock

Clippings pertaining to his activities and an announcement of a lecture and of an exhibition of his work. There are 2 letters from Joyce Zemans of York University to Nan Cheney re: Jock MacDonald.

Livesay, Dorothy

Outgoing letters to Nan Cheney. The file includes newspaper and periodical clippings pertaining to her work and activities (1944-1984) and announcements of her work and lectures.

Knox, Peggy

Her account of her trip to China and 2 copies of remarks made by Pat Horrobin.

Harris, Lawren

Newspaper clippings relating to his activities, 1976-1985, and 2 notices for exhibitions of his work.

Harris, Lawren

Newspaper clippings pertaining to his career and death, a catalogue of a Harris exhibition, 1940, an address delivered by him at the Vancouver Art Gallery entitled “Art as an expression of the values of its day,” notice of another exhibition, n.d., with an introduction by B.C. Binning, and a typescript, author unknown, referring to the opening of another Harris exhibition.
The file contains three letters from Bess Harris to Nan Cheney, 1964, and Ken [Morton] to Cheney, February 1, 1970.

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