Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:James Fenwick Lansdowne fonds
  
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• Published/Created:[after 1931]-2019
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1818
    
  • Number of Items:26
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1, 3-15, 21-29, 35, 28-39
    
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1818
    
  • Number of Items:6
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:OS-01 to 12
    
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1818
    
  • Number of Items:15
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 2, 16-20, 30-34, 36-37, 40-41
    
    

   
• Description:2.885 m of photographic material
  
• Summary:This fonds consists predominantly of photographs and other reproductions of Lansdowne's work which were created over the course of his career. Artwork contained in the fonds include unfinished drawings and sketches, reproductions and prints, as well as art inventory files which provide details of works that were sold, and for specific named projects. The fonds also includes business and personal correspondence, as well as financial records pertaining to the sale of artwork, Lansdowne's services as a commercial painter, and his business relationship with M.F. Feheley Arts Company Limited and TDF Artists Limited. Records also include biographical information, awards and ephemera, along with publications containing his work, and newspaper clippings about his work and career. Photographs depict family and friends, Lansdowne at work, as well as publicity photographs.
  
• Biography/history note:James Fenwick Lansdowne was a Canadian wildlife artist whose work focused on birds and was frequently compared to that of renowned nineteenth century naturalist and painter John James Audubon. Lansdowne was born in Hong Kong and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, where he lived for most of life and where he had a studio. He was bedridden or in a wheelchair for long portions of his childhood due to polio, and it was during this time he taught himself to paint. Despite having receiving no formal training in art, by the time he was 20 his work had been exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum and he had been profiled by MacLean's magazine as one of Canada's foremost bird artists. In addition to his paintings, his work was featured in advertisements, books, and even presented to the British Royal Family. Lansdowne was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1974), made an Officer of the Order of Canada (1976), and awarded the Order of British Columbia (1995).
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on contents of fonds.