“growing maltwood” for probus, september, 2005

“GROWING MALTWOOD” for Probus, September, 2005. Katherine Emma

Maltwood, Artist 1878-1961 An “aesthetic

movement” personality

Portrait of Katharine Maltwood, Nico Jungman

1905, Watercolour, 45.2 X 30.5 cm

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria

GROWING MALTWOOD “Victorian” upbringing Two sisters and

brother … interest in the arts encouraged

Highham Lodge, Woodford Green, London

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD Father: George

Sapsworth Leather merchant and

some time Mayor

GEORGE S. SAPSWORTH

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD Moira House School

for Girls, Eastbourne, Sussex

Moira House, Eastbourne

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD Slade School of Art,

University College, London

Mentor: George Frampton, Sculptor

Arts and Crafts movement backdrop

William Morris and his Oxford circle

“The Studio” Magazine illustration

Detail of Portrait of Katharine Maltwood, Nico Jungman

1905, Watercolour, 45.2 X 30.5 cm


GROWING MALTWOOD Ca: 1900 French Symbolist

Movement Viennese

Secessionists British New Sculpture Art Nouveau

Miss Sapsworth, Mrs. K. Maltwood (early portrait)

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD

Wind, Eric Gill

1929, Sculpture

Courtesy of the London Trasport Authority

GROWING MALTWOOD Marriage to John

Maltwood 1901 Businessman and art

collector OXO Corporation Retirement 1921:

antiquarian research, writing, travel, collecting.

Portrait of John Maltwood, Bertram Park

1921, Photograph, 25.2 X 19 cm


GROWING MALTWOOD Country Home,

Tadworth, Surrey An “arts and crafts”

life Foretaste of “The

Thatch” Royal Oak, Saanich

Maltwoods’ Home, Tadworth, Surrey

Photographs


GROWING MALTWOOD 16th and 17th Century

English Oak furniture collection

Interior of Tadsworth Home

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD Chilton Priory, Chilton

Polden, Somerset The Glastonbury Zodiac

years: research into Arthurian legends; archaeology, eastern mysticism.

Chilton Priory, Somerset

Photograph


Glastonbury Zodiac, Katharine Maltwood


GROWING MALTWOOD Freemasonry Theosophy British Israelite “Thorn of

Glastonbury”

Chilton Priory, home of the Maltwoods

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD Early Training under

George Frampton Influence of Auguste

Rodin Victorian realism Fountain for Tadworth

Boy Tickling Trout, Katharine Maltwood

c. 1900, Lead, height 47 cm


GROWING MALTWOOD Symbolist interests Influence of Jacob

Epstein

Magna Mater at Chilton Priory, Katharine Maltwood

1911


Night, Jacob Epstein

1929, Sculpture

Courtesy of the London Trasport Authority

GROWING MALTWOOD Madam Blavatsky Eastern mysticism and

Buddhism Novel of Lilly Adams

Beck “House of Fulfillment” 1924

Buddha’s Path of Enlightenment, Katharine Maltwood

1929, Metal, Bronze, height 150 cm


GROWING MALTWOOD Travels post War and

the 20s: Egypt, China, Japan, Thailand, India

K. Maltwood, Luxor c. 1919, Photograph

(above)

Travel Trunk

(right)


GROWING MALTWOOD Influences of travels Comparable to work of Ivan

Mestrovic

Priest of Buddha, Katharine Maltwood

1920

Caryatid or Angel, Ivan Mestrovic

Courtesy of the Musee National de Belgrade

GROWING MALTWOOD Exoticism, abstraction,

mysticism and influence of the Near and Far East.

Mirage, Katharine Maltwood

1927, Bronze


GROWING MALTWOOD Combining ancient

mythologies with Celtic legend.

Holy Grail, Katharine Maltwood

c. 1922, Alabaster, height 190.2


GROWING MALTWOOD Stylistic evolution,

comparison with the earlier work

Wounded Centar, Katharine Maltwood

1913, Photographic Print of Sculpture


GROWING MALTWOOD Sketches and notes,

from museums and travels

Grey Linen Notebook Belonging to Katharine Maltwood


GROWING MALTWOOD The South Kensington

Studio: completive shrine

A syncretic formulation for art and religion

Katharine Maltwood’s Studio at Kensington


GROWING MALTWOOD The personal

biography of Katharine Maltwood as a “way” to enlightenment

Album of Katharine Maltwood’s Clippings


The Canadian years 1935-1961

Artist as seer North American

indigenous wisdom as a penultimate

Portrait of Katharine Maltwood, Artist?

Date? Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD

The Victoria museum proposal 1939

Acquisition of “The Thatch” 1944

Portrait of John Maltwood, Artist?

Date? Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD

Collections: documents of Maltwood’s lives, interests and travels

Chair

c. 1540

Chinese Carved Wooden Screen

1736-1795

Eleven Headed Kannon

14th century

Kimona

c. 1930

GROWING MALTWOOD

The University of British Columbia designated; coincidental with founding of University of Victoria, 1963

Carpet

c. 1800

Chinese zoomorphic Figures Untitled Landscape, P. Harris Plate

Ming period

GROWING MALTWOOD

Culmination of a journey which began with her great monumental piece: the war memorial: “Canada Awakening to her Destiny”

Primeval Canada Awakening to Her Destiny, Katharine Maltwood

c. 1912, Sandstone


GROWING MALTWOOD

“The Thatch” Royal Oak, Saanich

The Thatch in Winter, Victoria British Columbia

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD

Museum and shrine

The Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery During the Time of John and Katharine Maltwood

Photograph


GROWING MALTWOOD

Home and studio, New World recreation of the Kensington Studio.

The Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

During the Time of John and Katharine

Maltwood

Photographs


GROWING MALTWOOD

Late works: focus on didactic meaning rather than form or style

Hand of God, Katharine Maltwood


GROWING MALTWOOD

Blending of the “ancient” with the “indigenous”.

Fox Dance, Katharine Maltwood

GROWING MALTWOOD

Return to land and nature

The “treetops” sketch books

Grey Linen Notebook Belonging to Katharine Maltwood


GROWING MALTWOOD

The Treetops property, Saanich

B.C. landscapists: Emily Carr and W.P. Weston

(bottom) November Mists Clothe the Arbutus in Enchantment

November 1939, coloured pencil on paper, 18 x 26 cm

Both by Katharine Maltwood and located at the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria

Discovery Island from 1101 Beach Drive

c. 1939, coloured pencil on paper, 18 x 26.5 cm

GROWING MALTWOOD

Anthropomorphic landscape: lessons from aboriginal totemic traditions

Indian Head with Sketch, Katharine Maltwood

GROWING MALTWOOD

Return, or arrival, at a pantheistic spiritualism

“energy in nature” - the works of Emily Carr

Happiness, Emily Carr

1939, Oil, 84.8 x 54 cm


GROWING MALTWOOD

Patron of local artists: Weston Peggy Walton Packard C. J. Collings Ina Uthoff

Katharine Maltwood, Peggy Packard

Pastel, 163 x 48 cm


GROWING MALTWOOD

Slocan Lake, Cascade Mountains, W.P. Weston

1952, oil on canvas, 32.5 x 40 cm


Patron of local artists: Elizabeth Duer Stella Langdale Carr

GROWING MALTWOOD

Wildflowers, Elizabeth Duer

1941, watercolour, 27.2 x 24 cm


Windswept Trees, Emily Carr

1930’s, oil and gasoline on paper, 85 x 54.5 cm


Nocturne, Stella Langdale

aquatint, 37.5 x 27.5 cm


Maltwood at the Thatch 1964-1977

Death of John Maltwood 1967 and endowment of the museum

Opening of the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery in the University Centre at Gordon Head Campus

The Thatch, 1983 (above) and 2005 (below)

Royal Oak Victoria

GROWING MALTWOOD

GROWING MALTWOOD Expansion of the collections: to

document the British and North American Arts-and-Crafts Movement

Liberty silver Tea Caddy

Ca. 1900

Bowl, A. Beardsly design

Late 19th century

Stained Glass Windows, Martin House, Buffalo, New York. Frank Lloyd Wright

1904

Art Nouveau Ink Pot and Letter Stand

European, ca. 1900

GROWING MALTWOOD Travel journals: the Bayne and Maxwell collections Maltwood Collections underpin ongoing exhibition,

research and teaching programs

White Gold Pendant

c. 1900

Palermo, Richard Bayne

1865

Rome. Dominican Convent of S.M., Richard Bayne

1865/06

Title?

Date?

GROWING MALTWOOD Donations of historic and

contemporary art have grown the collection from 1200 to 17,000 items

20 exhibitions per year 100,000 visitors Lectures and symposia Seminars and student

mentorships Diploma in Cultural

Resources Management Student and Faculty

Research Art Installation


Faculty Installation

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

GROWING MALTWOOD Specialized collecting areas:

Musical instruments Precolumbian ceramics Inuit carvings Contemporary art of Western Canada European 18th-20th Centuries tea

waresMusical Instruments Campus Installation

Title? Pre-Columbian Ceramics Campus Installation Display Case in the Study Gallery

GROWING MALTWOOD Commissioned

works: The UVic

convocation ceremonial furniture

University of Victoria Ceremonial Furniture, Calvin Hunt, Richard Hunt, Tom Hunt, John

Livingston, Roberta Louis, Susan Point, Cheryl Samuel, Ann Smith, Norman Tate, Glen Tallio,

Art Thompson, Don Yeomans


Cheryl Samuel and Susan Point working on their contributions to the ceremonial furniture

GROWING MALTWOOD: end

MacPherson Library & Gallery

Campus buildings enhancement

UVic exhibit stations Dunsmuir Lodge Government House Swans Hotel UVic Special

Collections (Maltwood Papers)

Model of The Thatch, Karen Wonders

1981, Wood, paint, acrylic, 25.9 x 68.4 cm


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Documents

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portrait of john maltwood

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