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(January 11, 2001, Gazette)

Art donation

Photo by Don Meiwald

June-Ray Pulford, the widow of the late Edward (Ted) B. Pulford (1914-1994), recently donated 30 of her husband’s paintings to the Sir Wilfred Grenfell Art Gallery. Here, Principal Adrian Fowler (L) and Dr. Roy Hostetter, head, Fine Arts, present two of the paintings: Curling (left) and Bottle Cove. The watercolours, which depict scenes of western Newfoundland and the Bay of Islands, will be added to the other Pulford works in the art gallery collection. Dr. Pulford taught visual art at Mount Allison University for 30 years, during which time he helped to establish the national reputation of the school of fine arts. Apart from his own respected career as one of Canada’s finest realist painters, Dr. Pulford guided the development of hundreds of students, including Mary West Pratt, Christopher Pratt, Tom Forrestall, and Corner Brook artists Aileen Woolridge and Michael Coyne. Dr. Pulford was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 1985.

Thursday, Jan. 11
Lectures begin, Winter Semester
Deadline for fees payment, Winter Semester
Regular meeting of the Board of Regents

Sunday, Jan. 14
Art workshop — Make Your Own Art Book with artist Tara Bryan, a bookmaking workshop for children ages eight and above, goes ahead at 2 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador. To register call 737-2563.

Thursday, Jan. 18
Film society — Stardom (Canada/France 2000). Directed by Denys Arcand. With Jessica Paré and Dan Ackroyd. All films run in Empire Studio 12, Avalon Mall, Thursday night at 7 p.m. For more information, see www.mun.ca/film

Saturday, Jan. 20
Concert — Jazz at the Woodstock, an evening of dining and dancing with the Avalon Jazz Quartet at the Woodstock Colonial Inn, goes ahead tonight. Part of the proceeds will go towards assisting the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador’s regular programming and art education initiatives. Call the AGNL at 737-2364 to reserve tickets.

Basketball — Memorial’s basketball teams are in action today at the MUN gym with the women taking on UPEI at 6 p.m. followed by the men’s team versus UPEI at 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 21
Basketball — Memorial’s basketball teams are in action today at the MUN gym with the women taking on UPEI at 2 p.m. followed by the men’s team versus UPEI at 4 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 25
Film society — Bamboozled (USA 2000). Directed by Spike Lee. With Daman Wayans, Samion Glover and Jada Pinkett. All films run in Empire Studio 12, Avalon Mall, Thursday night at 7 p.m. For more information, see www.mun.ca/film

Friday, Jan. 19
Reading — Playwright Michael Lewis MacLennan will give a reading at 4 p.m. in room A-3017 of the Arts and Administration Building.

Duo Concertante — Join Duo Concertante for a world premiere performance of a piece written especially for them by Jules Leger Prize Winner, Omar Daniel. Timothy Steeves (piano) and Nancy Dahn (violin) will also perform Beethoven’s Sonata in G Major Op. 96 and the Franck Sonata. D. F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music. 8 p.m. start.

ONGOING
Big North: The Paintings of John Hartman runs at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador until Jan. 21, 2001. Hartman’s large scale landscape paintings of Newfoundland and Georgian Bay are peopled with quirkily drawn references to local history. Organized by London Regional Art and Historical Museums.

Art in the Park runs at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador until Feb. 4, 2001. Selected art work created during the first two years of artist’s residencies at Gros Morne National Park. Participating artists include Anne Meredith Barry, Cecil Day, Christine Koch, William B. Ritchie, Tara Tidwell Bryan, and Barb Daniell.

Photo courtesy Centre for Newfoundland Studies

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from W. Allingham, Day and Night Songs; and the Music-Master (Bell and Daldy, 1860). Rossetti’s illustration of The Maids of Elfen-Mere, engraved on wood by Dalziel, first appeared in Allingham’s The Music-Master (1855). Rossetti published only 10 book illustrations in four volumes, but they ushered in a provocative and intense style of illustration, especially in 19th-century poetry. Pictures and Patterns: Victorian Illustrated Books and Bindings from the Peattie Collection, an exhibition to mark the gift of thousands of rare Victorian books from the Roger and Marlene Peattie Collection to Memorial’s QE II Library, runs Jan. 12 to March 25, 2001, at the Art Gallery ofNewfoundlandand Labrador, located in theArts and
Culture Centre, Allandale Road. The exhibition will focus on four groups of Victorian books: colour-printed books from the 1840s to the beginning of the 20th century; books and magazines with wood-engraved illustrations; examples of the “art of the book” movement; and cloth bindings, most of them signed or attributed to one of the known book cover artists. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. and Friday from 7-10 p.m.