Fonds MG 445 - Terry Fenton fonds

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Terry Fenton fonds

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MG 445

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  • 1940-2013 (inclusive); 1970-2013 (predominant) (Creation)

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~9 cm audio/video materials; ~ 85 cm photographic material; ~ 4.7 m textual material, 41,823 digital images; 2346 photographs; 1,560 35mm slides; 1,215 negatives

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(1940-)

Biographical history

Terry Fenton was born July 1, 1940 in Regina, Saskatchewan,Canada.He was educated at Regina College in fine art from 1958-60 and at the University of Saskatchewan in English Literature from 1960-62. Terry married Sheila Cowie in 1962 and their son Mark was born in 1963.Terry Fenton became a self-employed painter and writer based in Saskatoon. His landscape and still life paintings are displayed in national and international collections. Fenton has also been deeply involved in the art world, acting as critic, curator, and author of articles and books on Canadian and international artists. His well-known books on Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland are available around the world. He has authored several guides to the appreciation of art for the interested public.In 1982 at the request of Sir Anthony Caro and Hon. Robert Loder, Terry helped found the Triangle Artists Workshop in New York State, a facility devised to bring together ambitious artists from around the world at no cost to government. Aside from his work with the Triangle Artists Workshop, Fenton has served as a frequent guest critic at artists’ workshops in Canada, America, and England as well as an in-studio critic and coach to painters and sculptors in America, England, and Canada. Fenton has been an advisor to collectors both corporate and private, specializing in contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography. He served as the director of The Edmonton Art Gallery from 1972-1988 and during this time helped make Edmonton a center for both the collection and creation of art. Terry Fenton then acted as the artistic Director of the Leighton Foundation in Calgary from 1988-93. He developed programs for landscape painters, was the director of the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon from 1993-97 and was the President of the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance from 1997-2000.

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This collection contains correspondence relating to Fenton’s professional and private life—including a great deal of correspondence with notable artists, art dealers, and galleries. The fonds also contains working and completed drafts of his writing, and research notes, clippings, and photocopies related thereto. Working files from his periods of directorship, and from his time running Terry Fenton Art Services are also present. News clippings and articles about Fenton are dispersed throughout.
Art / travel journals are also included, as is an extensive collection of photographs and slides both documenting Fenton’s inventory of his own work, and also showing a range of art by others encountered over his career. A number of more personal photographs, slides and videos show artists at work and at play at a variety of workshops, and in a variety of settings. Digital and physical landscape photographs used for inspiration in Fenton’s painting are also present.
A large portion of the collection is comprised of Fenton’s library, which includes publications from the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Mendel Art Gallery, and the Leighton Foundation, as well as more general collected texts, works by Fenton, and an extensive collection of exhibition catalogues.

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Due to a lack of original order, materials have been re-organized according to the following series:
I. Personal/Biographical
II. Art
a.) Works by Fenton
b.) Works by Others
III. Writing, Research, Lecturing
IV. Career
a. General
b. Edmonton Art Gallery
c. Mendel Art Gallery
V. Correspondence
VI. Library
a.) Edmonton Art Gallery Publications
b.) Leighton Foundation Publications
c.) Mendel Art Gallery Publications
d.) Collection
e.) Books by Fenton
f.) Collected exhibition Catalogues alphabetical by artist

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Files containing personal information have been marked as RESTRICTED as per Saskatchewan privacy legislation. Please see archivist for details.

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