Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:B.C. Binning fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Binning, B. C., 1909-1976.
  
• Published/Created:1947-1976
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:8
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-6.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Nitobe Memorial Garden.
  University of British Columbia. Festival of the Contemporary Arts.
  University of British Columbia. Department of Fine Arts.
  University of British Columbia. Fine Arts Committee.
  
• Description:1. 1 m of textual records
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of material relating to the foundation and early development of the Department of Fine Arts and other university-related committees and activities in which Binning participated including the Fine Arts Committee, the Festival of Contemporary Arts and the development of Nitobe Gardens.
  
• Biography/history note:Bertram Charles Binning was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and grew up in Vancouver where he later attended art school before pursuing his studies in Oregon, Greenwich Village, New York and London. He joined the University of British Columbia School of Architecture in 1949 after many years as instructor at the Vancouver School of Arts. In 1955, he became head of the Department of Fine Arts which he had helped establish. He resigned the position in 1968 to devote more time to teaching and painting. Binning retired from the university in 1973. The list of Binning's direct or indirect creations beyond his artwork include the founding of the Department of Fine Arts, the development of the UBC Fine Arts Gallery, the initiation of the Brock Hall Collection of Canadian Art, the conception and direction of the Festival of Contemporary Arts, and the negotiations for the planning of the Nitobe Memorial Garden.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:File list available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.