Zone d'identification
Cote
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Titre
Date(s)
- 1920-1950 (Production)
Importance matérielle
47 cm of textual records and graphic material Researchers must be accompanied by a staff member when using the scrapbook due to its fragile condition.
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Helen Sanderson Sewell (1905-2001) was a Toronto artist and teacher. She attended the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1928 with the Governor General’s Gold Medal. After graduation, she taught for six years with Arthur Lismer at the Art Gallery of Ontario and in Barrie, London, and her Toronto studio. She traveled to northern Ontario to paint with members of the Group of Seven. In 1934 she married William Sewell and interrupted her career to raise four children, including former Toronto mayor John Sewell. She resumed painting when her children were in high school, specializing in portraiture, and was active in the Toronto Heliconian Club.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The fonds includes correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, drawings, poems, notes and memorabilia relating to Helen Sanderson’s student days at the Ontario College of Art and subsequent teaching career. Many of these were pasted into a scrapbook, entitled ‘Art School Days’, forming a distinctive memoir of student life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The fonds is arranged in a single series.
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Open
Accès physique
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Copyright belonging to other parties, such as that of photographs, may still rest with the creator of these items. It is the researcher’s responsibility to obtain permission to publish any part of the fonds.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Instruments de recherche
A detailed inventory is available for this fonds.
Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Fonds was acquired from the Sewell family July 11, 2002.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
No further accruals are expected.