Beckett, Ancaster, Ontario, the former owner of Beckett Gallery Limited in Hamilton, Ontario Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired from Thomas L. The contact prints are individual images. Physical description: Photographs include 223 b&w contact prints and 663 b&w negatives.
Source of title proper: Title based on contents of fonds. Photographs from some of the negatives were shown in exhibitions in Canada and abroad, and were reproduced in exhibition catalogues and books such as Ossip Zadkine (National Gallery of Canada, 1956) and A Nostalgic View of Canada (McClelland & Stewart, 1962).
The fonds consists of black-and-white contact prints and negatives produced by Buchanan during his travels throughout Canada and during trips to countries including France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and Tunisia from the late 1950s until the early 1960s. Buchanan died after being struck by a van on an Ottawa bridge in 1966. Buchanan's career as a photographer was put on hold in December 1963, when he was appointed director of the International Fine Arts Exhibition Man and His World at Expo '67. He also published two books of his photographs, A Nostalgic View of Canada (1962) and Sausages and Roses (1963). Buchanan continued his career in photography after he retired from the National Gallery, exhibiting his work at the Here and Now Gallery, Toronto, in 1960 La Galleria George Lester, Rome, in 1962 and The Blue Barn Gallery, Ottawa, in 1964. Buchanan (1959), organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The photographs produced by Buchanan during this trip led to an exhibition entitled entitled A Not Always Reverent Journey: Photographs by Donald W. In 1958, after developing an interest in photography, Buchanan took a six-month leave of absence from his job at the National Gallery to photograph areas of France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Jordan. Buchanan returned to the Gallery in 1963 as a member of its Board of Trustees.īuchanan wrote several books on art and design during his career, including James Wilson Morrice: A Biography (1936), Canadian Painting from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven (1945), Design for Use (1947), The Growth of Canadian Painting (1950), and Alfred Pellan (1962). After leaving the Canadian Radio Commission, Buchanan worked for the National Film Board, where he established the stills division from 1947 until 1960 he was employed by the National Gallery of Canada, serving as director of the Industrial Design Division (1947-1953) and later as the Gallery's Associate Director (1955-1960). The following year Buchanan founded the National Film Society of Canada (known as the Canadian Film Institute since 1950), and from 1937 until 1940, he worked at the Canadian Radio Commission (now the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). In 1934 he received a fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation to train in museum administration and to complete a biography on the Canadian artist James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924). Buchanan studied modern history at the University of Toronto and also attended the University of Oxford. Donald William Buchanan, art historian, arts administrator, and author, was born in 1908 in Lethbridge, Alberta, the son of Senator William Ashbury Buchanan (1876-1954), publisher of the Lethbridge Herald, and Alma Maud Buchanan (née Freeman) (1877-1956).
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