<p><div>Judith Nasby, founding director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, animates the story of the gallery from its humble beginnings in the hallways of a university campus in 1916 to its latest incarnation as the internationally recognized Art Gallery of Guelph. The book is beautifully illustrated with eighty images of artworks in the permanent collection, beginning with the gallery's first acquisition, Tom Thomson's 1917 masterpiece The Drive, the last large canvas he painted before his tragic death. As curator, Nasby oversaw the creation of one of the most comprehensive sculpture parks in Canada and the amassing of a permanent collection of some nine thousand artworks. In The Making of a Museum Nasby reveals how the museum developed its internationally recognized collection of contemporary Inuit drawings and wall hangings that toured four continents. She discusses the development of the collection's specializations in contemporary works by Canadian silversmiths; historical European etchings; Woodland and Northeastern Indigenous beadwork; and others that arose from curatorial collaborations, such as molas by Kuna women artists from Panama and contemporary paintings and indigenous woodcuts from Chongqing, China. Nasby recounts her long career as founding director and curator, peppering the hundred-year history of cultural development on the University of Guelph campus and in the city with humorous anecdotes and personal insights to reveal how arts institutions can be created through dedication, serendipity, and perseverance.</div></p>

The Making of a Museum (Volume 26) (Footprints Series)

Arts & Photography

Nasby, Judith

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

McGill-Queen's University Press

This attractive catalog features the nine textiles and drawings commissioned from Irene Avaalaaquiq by the U. of Guelph (Ontario, Canada where Nasby is curator of the U. Art Gallery) when they awarded her an honorary doctorate for her contribution to contemporary Inuit art. The volume, which includes lengthy excerpts of interviews with the artist, details her life, the history of her home in Baker Lake, and the symbolism of her drawings and tapestries, which depict traditional and personal narratives. Co-published by McGill- Queen's U. Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality

Avaalaaqiaq Tiktaalaaq, Irene

Individual Artists

Univ of Washington Pr

<p>Irene Avaalaaqiaq has received commissions for public buildings from Churchill, Manitoba, to Minneapolis, to Ottawa. She has had solo exhibitions at the Isaacs/Innuit Gallery in Toronto and her work was included in a touring exhibition organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1999 she had a solo exhibition at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from that institute.</p>

History & Criticism

<p>During Rolph Scarlett's remarkable seventy-five year career he was an avant-garde abstract painter, an innovative set designer, an industrial designer and the creator of unique sculptural jewellery in the American modernist tradition. In this beautifully illustrated book, Judith Nasby presents a retrospective of his life and work. Scarlett was born in Guelph, Ontario, in 1889. By the time he moved to the United States in 1918 he had already had some experience with the techniques of painting, jewellery, and designing for the stage which he put to good use in his career in New York. abstraction, with sixty of his paintings in the collection of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). A geometric sensibility also inspired the innovative, constructionist stage designs that he created for plays such as George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman (1929). As an industrial designer during the 1930s, Scarlett produced a remarkable body of design drawings for everything from household objects to New York World's Fair amusement rides and guided missiles. His streamlined modern designs emphasized efficiency, science, and progress. Throughout his life he had made unique sculptural jewellery and after his retirement in the 1960s jewellery increasingly became his focus. He actively made jewellery until a few years before his death at age ninety-five.</p>

Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, and Jeweller

<p>Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form.</p>

The Cultivated Landscape: An Exploration of Art and Agriculture

Pearson, Craig

Kivioq's Journey and Other Revelations in the Donald Forster Sculpture Park at the Art Gallery of Guelph

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The Making of a Museum (Volume 26) (Footprints Series)

Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality

Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality

Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, and Jeweller

The Cultivated Landscape: An Exploration of Art and Agriculture

Kivioq's Journey and Other Revelations in the Donald Forster Sculpture Park at the Art Gallery of Guelph