Title and statement of responsibility area
Titel
Algemene aanduiding van het materiaal
- Multiple media
Parallelle titel
Overige titelinformatie
Title statements of responsibility
Titel aantekeningen
Beschrijvingsniveau
archiefbewaarplaats
referentie code
Editie
Editie
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Datering archiefvorming
Datum(s)
-
1880-1914 (Vervaardig)
- Archiefvormer
- Howard, Alfred Harold, 1854–1916
Fysieke beschrijving
Fysieke beschrijving
15 sketchbooks
85 drawings
2 albums
1 portfolio
11 bookplates
9 die impressions
8 photographs
1 folder of textual records
1 certificate
1 diploma
1 microfilm reel
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archivistische beschrijving
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
Alfred Harold Howard (1854–1916) was a British Canadian graphic artist, calligrapher and decorative designer in Toronto in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Liverpool, England, he apprenticed as a lithographer with the Liverpool branch of the firm Maclure, Macdonald and Macgregor. In 1876 he immigrated to Canada and eventually opened an office of graphic design in the Temple Building in downtown Toronto. He received the Marquess of Lorne’s Medal for Design in 1881 and was made an academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1883.
Howard’s commercial design work took the form of illuminated addresses of welcome, certificates and diplomas and addresses of condolence. In 1891 he produced the City of Toronto address of condolence presented to Lady Macdonald on the death of the Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Howard exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists at their Applied Art Exhibition in 1900 and with the Canadian Society of Applied Art in 1905. He was a member of the Toronto Art Students’ League and the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. When he died in Toronto in 1916 (26 February), the Art Museum of Toronto held a memorial exhibition of his work.
Howard’s artworks are in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Toronto Reference Library, the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Geschiedenis beheer
The materials now constituting the A. H. Howard fonds, apart from the sketchbooks, were left unclaimed with the Art Museum of Toronto following its memorial exhibition for A. H. Howard in 1916. In 1921 they were given to the Museum, along with the sketchbooks, by the artist’s son, C.S. Howard. For several decades the materials were in the Canadian Historical Study Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. They were transferred to the AGO Research Library and Archives in 2007.
Bereik en inhoud
Fonds consists of drawings, watercolours and designs of A. H. Howard produced in Toronto between 1880 and 1914, especially in the sketchbooks in which Howard drew Ontario landscapes and towns, flowers, trees, human figures, factory interiors and other subjects. Similar drawings and watercolours are contained in two albums and a portfolio. Also included are examples of his decorative and calligraphic work from illuminated presentation addresses, certificates, bookplates and other materials.
Contains series:
- Portfolio and albums
- Sketchbooks
- Decorative designs and drawings
Aantekeningen
Materiële staat
Some materials are brittle and fragile.
Directe bron van verwerving
Gift of C.S (Clifford) Howard, the artist’s son, in 1921. — Miscellaneous items in series 5: Decorative designs and drawings were added to the fonds in 2010. — Microfilm reel (series 2 & 4) was deaccessioned from the Archives of Ontario in 2014 and transferred to the AGO.
Ordening
Taal van het materiaal
Schrift van het materiaal
Plaats van originelen
Beschikbaarheid in andere opslagformaten
Restrictions on access
Open. Access to Special Collections is by appointment only. Please contact the reference desk for more information.
Termen voor gebruik, reproductie en publicatie.
Copyright has been transferred to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Material in this fonds is in the public domain. Permission of the Art Gallery of Ontario is required for publication.
Toegangen
A detailed finding aid is available at http://www.ago.net/assets/files/pdf/special_collections/SC115.pdf.
Associated materials
Presentation books designed by A. H. Howard are in the United Church Archives at the University of Toronto and in the City of Toronto Archives.
Bookplates by A. H. Howard are in the Canadian Bookplate Collection (SC020). — Presentation books designed by Howard are in the Grange collection. — Books (2) from the library of A. H. Howard are in the main collection of the AGO Research Library and Archives.
Aanvullingen
Alternative identifier(s)
Standaard nummer
Standaard nummer
Trefwoorden
Onderwerp trefwoord
Geografische trefwoorden
- North America » Canada » Ontario » Toronto
Naam ontsluitingsterm
Genre access points
Beheer
Identificatie van het beschrijvingsrecord
Identificatiecode van de instelling
Regels of conventies
Status
Niveau van detaillering
Datering van aanmaak, herziening of verwijdering
August 9, 2013. Revised August 29, 2014, to reflect accrual of microfilm from Archives of Ontario.
Taal van de beschrijving
- Engels