Doris Shadbolt

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Doris Shadbolt OC (born November 28, 1918 in Preston , Ontario , Canada , † December 22, 2003 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) was a Canadian curator , writer and coordinator of art exhibitions.

Life

Doris Shadbolt was born Doris Meisel in Preston, Ontario in 1918. She studied art at Simon Fraser University and the University of Toronto , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1941. She then worked for the Art Gallery of Ontario (1942–1943) and the National Gallery of Canada (1943–1945). In 1945 she married the artist Jack Shadbolt . She worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1948 to 1949. She then moved to Vancouver , British Columbia , at the Vancouver Art Gallery , where she initially worked for museum education, later as curator and finally as deputy director. In 1973 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. Doris Shadbold had an influential role in the development of this largest art museum in the city and organized many meetings of the artistic avant-garde of all styles of the arts during the 1960s and 1970s. Her lifelong interest in Canadian art, especially that of the northwest coast of Canada, manifested itself in various groundbreaking exhibitions, such as B. Arts of the Rave , the first major art exhibition by First Nation artists beyond a mere anthropological aspect, or the exhibitions of the work of Emily Carr and that of Bill Reid . Always open to new things, she has acted as a curator at important modern art exhibitions, including New York 13 and Los Angeles 6 .

In 1987 she won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award for Bill Reid for her work on Bill Reid . So far it is the only time that a book has been successful in two BC Book Prizes categories .

After her husband died in 1998, Doris Shadbold died in 2003. A foundation was established in honor of both of them.

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  • Images for a Canadian heritage; a picture book prepared for the exhibition presented to honor the one-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the Colony of Vancouver Island into the Colony of British Columbia, November 19, 1866; dedicated to the citizens of the great Province of British Columbia by the Vancouver Art Gallery Association. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 1966.
  • The Art of Emily Carr . Clarke, Irwin, et al. a., Vancouver 1979.
  • Bill Reid . Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver / University of Washington Press, Seattle 1986.
  • The Emily Carr omnibus . Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver 1993.
  • Seven journeys. The sketchbooks of Emily Carr . Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver 2002.

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