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Nan Cheney fonds
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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)

Miscellany

Sub-series consists of invoices, articles, newspaper clippings, and an obituary notice for John Wilson.

Nan Cheney

Series contains material collected by Cheney about Canadian art and artists other than Emily Carr. It also contains records relating to her medical drawings and the publication of her letters with Humphrey Toms and Emily Carr. Series includes clippings, bulletins, brochures relating to art exhibitions in Vancouver, photographs, letters, memorabilia, drawings, and gallery catalogues.

Nan Cheney fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1121
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1991

The fonds consists of 71 holograph letters from Ethel Wilson to Cheney, as well as correspondence from Wallace Wilson, Mary [Dodds] and Dorothy McNair. There is also correspondence between Nan Cheney and various artists, including Emily Carr, between the years 1938 and 1984. Cheney's subject files on Canadian artists are included in the fonds, along with newspaper and periodical clippings, memorabilia, photographs and manuscripts.

Cheney, Nan

Nan Cheney Photographs

The photographs, negatives, and slides (the slides are duplicate images of the photos, with one or two exceptions) BC1849/1-86 are primarily images of Emily Carr and her artwork.

The slides BC1849/90-158 are primarily informal images taken by Cheney of her numerous Canadian artist friends, as well as slides portraying various U.B.C. dignitaries and other well-known Canadians. These date from 1951-1969 and include a section (numbered BC1849/149(a-f)-158) that is devoted to Dr.’s Ethel and Wallace Wilson.

Photographs numbered BC1849/159-200 are mainly photographs of Nan Cheney’s many friends and acquaintances, as well as photographs of art work, including her own. Also there is a series of photographs which record a sculpture show at U.B.C. in 1956 (BC1849/196a-1).

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.

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.

Notes

Sub-series contains notes taken by Nan Cheney on articles and lectures.

Onley, Toni

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

Pepper, G.D.

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

Photographs

Sub-series consists of photographs and photonegatives of Ethel and Wallace Wilson.

Photographs

Sub-series consists of prints and slides of artists, paintings, Cheney’s work, and her friends.

Photographs

Sub-series consists of prints and slides relating to Emily Carr, her work and house.

Plaskett, Joe

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

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.

Printed Material

Sub-series consists of catalogues, bulletins, and brochures relating to art exhibitions. Sub-series also contains biographical information on Nan Cheney.

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