THE COLLECTIONS AT 50: Building The University of Victoria Art Collections by Martin Segger and Caroline Riedel (2012 1st Ed.)
THE COLLECTIONS AT 50: Building The University of Victoria Art Collections by Martin Segger and Caroline Riedel (2012 1st Ed.)
Author: Martin Segger and Caroline Riedel. Published by Martin Segger and the Legacy Art Gallery, Victoria, BC., 2012, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 8.5 inch, 93 pages including index.
THE COLLECTIONS AT 50: was exhibition produced in conjunction with UVic’s 50th anniversary, guest curated by former director Martin Segger, and celebrates more than five decades of art at the University of Victoria.
"The three founding components that underpin today’s University of Victoria Art Collection mark the stages in the institutional establishment of he University itself. The formal development of the Victoria College Art Collection was prompted by the amalgamation of the Victoria Normal School of Victoria College at the Lansdowne campus in 196. The commissioning of public art to enhance new buildings essentially began with construction on the Gordon Head Campus in 1961. The death of Katherine Emma Maltwood in 1961, just two years before issue of the University of Victoria’s letter patent, prompted her husband John to act on her wishes quickly and the Maltwood Art Gallery at Royal Oak passed into the hands of the University in 1964. Each initiative was to determine in its own way the future development of the University’s now 27,000 item art collection." – Martin Segger (Director and Curator 1973-2011)
For more info on the University of Victoria Art Collection, please see: Legacy Art Galleries - University of Victoria (uvic.ca)
ISBN: 9781550584820
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