Doris Shadbolt
| Doris Shadbolt | |
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| Born | November 28, 1918 Preston, Ontario |
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| Awards | Order of Canada, Governor General's Award |
Doris Shadbolt, OC , née Meisel, (November 28, 1918 – December 22, 2003)[1][2] was a Canadian art curator, writer and co-ordinator of exhibitions.
Early life
Born in Preston, Ontario, Shadbolt attended the University of Toronto[3] where she studied Fine Arts as an undergraduate under painter Charles Comfort.[4] After graduating, she worked as a research assistant at the Art Gallery of Ontario (then the Art Gallery of Toronto) and the National Gallery of Canada.[5] She moved to Vancouver, British Columbia with her husband, painter Jack Shadbolt, in 1945.[5]
Career
In Vancouver, Shadbolt started a long career with the Vancouver Art Gallery, starting first as a volunteer, then serving as a docent, curator, and director.[5] She curated several groundbreaking exhibitions, including "Art of the Raven" (1967), which showcased the work of First Nations artists. Her 1970 exhibition "New York 13" introduced Vancouverites to Robert Morris, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.[5]
Shadbolt was also an active art historian and biographer. Her biographies of Bill Reid and Emily Carr remain the authoritative books on the artists. She won several awards for her non-fiction; her Bill Reid won the 1987 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. She was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and Emily Carr College of Art and Design.[6][7] She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1976, and in 2000 received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts for her contributions to literature and the arts.[8][9]
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, British Columbia, is named for the Shadbolts, and the couple also started the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts (which was renamed the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation after their deaths).[8][10]
Longtime residents on Capitol Hill in Burnaby, the Shadbolts also maintained a summer home on Hornby Island[11] where they were active in the artists colony there. A passionate collector of B.C. ceramics, she bequeathed her 170 piece collection of pottery by Wayne Ngan, Glenn Lewis, Tam Irving, and others to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.[12] Beginning in the 1950s, Shadbolt designed silver jewelry, exhibiting at the New Design Gallery in 1961. Her sculptural abstract forms were inspired by natural forms and African art.[13][14]
Selected works
- The Art of Emily Carr . Douglas & McIntyre, 1979
- Bill Reid. Douglas & McIntyre, 1986
- Emily Carr. Douglas & McIntyre, 1990
- Seven Journeys: The Sketchbooks of Emily Carr. Douglas & McIntyre, 2002
References
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Further reading
- Those Days: A Portrait of Doris Shadbolt. [film] Written & Directed by Karen Henry. Produced by the Western Front and the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, 2002. Running time 27 min.
- Doris Shadbolt. Artists' File. Vancouver Art Gallery Library. Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, B.C.
- Doris Shadbolt sous-fonds, 1963-1983: finding aid : prepared by Alix Nay. Vancouver Art Gallery, 2014.
- Doris Shadbolt: the Vancouver Art Gallery years: finder's guide to Vancouver Art Gallery archival resources relevant to Doris Shadbolt. Prepared by Karen Henry. Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002.
- "Lion in Winter: A Governor General's award crowns a lifetime of arts advocacy for Doris Shadbolt" by Robin Laurence. Canadian Art (Summer 2000), p. 40-41.
- "Doris Shadbolt: Quiet Dynamo in the World of Art" (Movers & Shakers) Chatelaine (February 1981), p. 42, 116.
