“growing maltwood” for probus, september, 2005
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“GROWING MALTWOOD” for Probus, September, 2005. Katherine Emma Maltwood, Artist 1878-1961 An “aesthetic movement” personality. Portrait of Katharine Maltwood , Nico Jungman 1905, Watercolour, 45.2 X 30.5 cm Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria. GROWING MALTWOOD. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
“GROWING MALTWOOD” for Probus, September, 2005. Katherine Emma
Maltwood, Artist 1878-1961 An “aesthetic
movement” personality
Portrait of Katharine Maltwood, Nico Jungman
1905, Watercolour, 45.2 X 30.5 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD “Victorian” upbringing Two sisters and
brother … interest in the arts encouraged
Highham Lodge, Woodford Green, London
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Father: George
Sapsworth Leather merchant and
some time Mayor
GEORGE S. SAPSWORTH
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Moira House School
for Girls, Eastbourne, Sussex
Moira House, Eastbourne
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Slade School of Art,
University College, London
Mentor: George Frampton, Sculptor
Arts and Crafts movement backdrop
William Morris and his Oxford circle
“The Studio” Magazine illustration
Detail of Portrait of Katharine Maltwood, Nico Jungman
1905, Watercolour, 45.2 X 30.5 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Ca: 1900 French Symbolist
Movement Viennese
Secessionists British New Sculpture Art Nouveau
Miss Sapsworth, Mrs. K. Maltwood (early portrait)
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Wind, Eric Gill
1929, Sculpture
Courtesy of the London Trasport Authority
GROWING MALTWOOD Marriage to John
Maltwood 1901 Businessman and art
collector OXO Corporation Retirement 1921:
antiquarian research, writing, travel, collecting.
Portrait of John Maltwood, Bertram Park
1921, Photograph, 25.2 X 19 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Country Home,
Tadworth, Surrey An “arts and crafts”
life Foretaste of “The
Thatch” Royal Oak, Saanich
Maltwoods’ Home, Tadworth, Surrey
Photographs
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD 16th and 17th Century
English Oak furniture collection
Interior of Tadsworth Home
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Chilton Priory, Chilton
Polden, Somerset The Glastonbury Zodiac
years: research into Arthurian legends; archaeology, eastern mysticism.
Chilton Priory, Somerset
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Glastonbury Zodiac, Katharine Maltwood
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Freemasonry Theosophy British Israelite “Thorn of
Glastonbury”
Chilton Priory, home of the Maltwoods
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Early Training under
George Frampton Influence of Auguste
Rodin Victorian realism Fountain for Tadworth
Boy Tickling Trout, Katharine Maltwood
c. 1900, Lead, height 47 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Symbolist interests Influence of Jacob
Epstein
Magna Mater at Chilton Priory, Katharine Maltwood
1911
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Night, Jacob Epstein
1929, Sculpture
Courtesy of the London Trasport Authority
GROWING MALTWOOD Madam Blavatsky Eastern mysticism and
Buddhism Novel of Lilly Adams
Beck “House of Fulfillment” 1924
Buddha’s Path of Enlightenment, Katharine Maltwood
1929, Metal, Bronze, height 150 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Travels post War and
the 20s: Egypt, China, Japan, Thailand, India
K. Maltwood, Luxor c. 1919, Photograph
(above)
Travel Trunk
(right)
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Influences of travels Comparable to work of Ivan
Mestrovic
Priest of Buddha, Katharine Maltwood
1920
Caryatid or Angel, Ivan Mestrovic
Courtesy of the Musee National de Belgrade
GROWING MALTWOOD Exoticism, abstraction,
mysticism and influence of the Near and Far East.
Mirage, Katharine Maltwood
1927, Bronze
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Combining ancient
mythologies with Celtic legend.
Holy Grail, Katharine Maltwood
c. 1922, Alabaster, height 190.2
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Stylistic evolution,
comparison with the earlier work
Wounded Centar, Katharine Maltwood
1913, Photographic Print of Sculpture
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD Sketches and notes,
from museums and travels
Grey Linen Notebook Belonging to Katharine Maltwood
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD The South Kensington
Studio: completive shrine
A syncretic formulation for art and religion
Katharine Maltwood’s Studio at Kensington
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD The personal
biography of Katharine Maltwood as a “way” to enlightenment
Album of Katharine Maltwood’s Clippings
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
The Canadian years 1935-1961
Artist as seer North American
indigenous wisdom as a penultimate
Portrait of Katharine Maltwood, Artist?
Date? Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
The Victoria museum proposal 1939
Acquisition of “The Thatch” 1944
Portrait of John Maltwood, Artist?
Date? Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Collections: documents of Maltwood’s lives, interests and travels
Chair
c. 1540
Chinese Carved Wooden Screen
1736-1795
Eleven Headed Kannon
14th century
Kimona
c. 1930
GROWING MALTWOOD
The University of British Columbia designated; coincidental with founding of University of Victoria, 1963
Carpet
c. 1800
Chinese zoomorphic Figures Untitled Landscape, P. Harris Plate
Ming period
GROWING MALTWOOD
Culmination of a journey which began with her great monumental piece: the war memorial: “Canada Awakening to her Destiny”
Primeval Canada Awakening to Her Destiny, Katharine Maltwood
c. 1912, Sandstone
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
“The Thatch” Royal Oak, Saanich
The Thatch in Winter, Victoria British Columbia
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Museum and shrine
The Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery During the Time of John and Katharine Maltwood
Photograph
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Home and studio, New World recreation of the Kensington Studio.
The Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
During the Time of John and Katharine
Maltwood
Photographs
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Late works: focus on didactic meaning rather than form or style
Hand of God, Katharine Maltwood
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Blending of the “ancient” with the “indigenous”.
Fox Dance, Katharine Maltwood
GROWING MALTWOOD
Return to land and nature
The “treetops” sketch books
Grey Linen Notebook Belonging to Katharine Maltwood
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
The Treetops property, Saanich
B.C. landscapists: Emily Carr and W.P. Weston
(bottom) November Mists Clothe the Arbutus in Enchantment
November 1939, coloured pencil on paper, 18 x 26 cm
Both by Katharine Maltwood and located at the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Discovery Island from 1101 Beach Drive
c. 1939, coloured pencil on paper, 18 x 26.5 cm
GROWING MALTWOOD
Anthropomorphic landscape: lessons from aboriginal totemic traditions
Indian Head with Sketch, Katharine Maltwood
GROWING MALTWOOD
Return, or arrival, at a pantheistic spiritualism
“energy in nature” - the works of Emily Carr
Happiness, Emily Carr
1939, Oil, 84.8 x 54 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Patron of local artists: Weston Peggy Walton Packard C. J. Collings Ina Uthoff
Katharine Maltwood, Peggy Packard
Pastel, 163 x 48 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
Slocan Lake, Cascade Mountains, W.P. Weston
1952, oil on canvas, 32.5 x 40 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Patron of local artists: Elizabeth Duer Stella Langdale Carr
GROWING MALTWOOD
Wildflowers, Elizabeth Duer
1941, watercolour, 27.2 x 24 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Windswept Trees, Emily Carr
1930’s, oil and gasoline on paper, 85 x 54.5 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Nocturne, Stella Langdale
aquatint, 37.5 x 27.5 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Maltwood at the Thatch 1964-1977
Death of John Maltwood 1967 and endowment of the museum
Opening of the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery in the University Centre at Gordon Head Campus
The Thatch, 1983 (above) and 2005 (below)
Royal Oak Victoria
GROWING MALTWOOD
GROWING MALTWOOD Expansion of the collections: to
document the British and North American Arts-and-Crafts Movement
Liberty silver Tea Caddy
Ca. 1900
Bowl, A. Beardsly design
Late 19th century
Stained Glass Windows, Martin House, Buffalo, New York. Frank Lloyd Wright
1904
Art Nouveau Ink Pot and Letter Stand
European, ca. 1900
GROWING MALTWOOD Travel journals: the Bayne and Maxwell collections Maltwood Collections underpin ongoing exhibition,
research and teaching programs
White Gold Pendant
c. 1900
Palermo, Richard Bayne
1865
Rome. Dominican Convent of S.M., Richard Bayne
1865/06
Title?
Date?
GROWING MALTWOOD Donations of historic and
contemporary art have grown the collection from 1200 to 17,000 items
20 exhibitions per year 100,000 visitors Lectures and symposia Seminars and student
mentorships Diploma in Cultural
Resources Management Student and Faculty
Research Art Installation
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Faculty Installation
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery
GROWING MALTWOOD Specialized collecting areas:
Musical instruments Precolumbian ceramics Inuit carvings Contemporary art of Western Canada European 18th-20th Centuries tea
waresMusical Instruments Campus Installation
Title? Pre-Columbian Ceramics Campus Installation Display Case in the Study Gallery
GROWING MALTWOOD Commissioned
works: The UVic
convocation ceremonial furniture
University of Victoria Ceremonial Furniture, Calvin Hunt, Richard Hunt, Tom Hunt, John
Livingston, Roberta Louis, Susan Point, Cheryl Samuel, Ann Smith, Norman Tate, Glen Tallio,
Art Thompson, Don Yeomans
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria
Cheryl Samuel and Susan Point working on their contributions to the ceremonial furniture
GROWING MALTWOOD: end
MacPherson Library & Gallery
Campus buildings enhancement
UVic exhibit stations Dunsmuir Lodge Government House Swans Hotel UVic Special
Collections (Maltwood Papers)
Model of The Thatch, Karen Wonders
1981, Wood, paint, acrylic, 25.9 x 68.4 cm
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria