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Ruth Tye McKenzie fonds Series
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Artist

Records include photographs and photocopies of artwork; brochures, correspondence, and news coverage of art exhibitions; records of art sales and donations.

• Publicity and news clippings
• Artist Biographies
• Art Finances - 1977-1983
• Art Sales
• Art Education Information
• Artists North of Superior Curatorial Collective
• Exhibitions 1970-1980
• Exhibitions 1980-1990
• Exhibition - Thunder Bay Art Gallery - 1988
• Exhibition - The Human Landscape, Dundas - 1989
• Exhibition - Artists North of Superior - 1989-1992
• Exhibition - Motions of Matter - 1994
• Exhibitions 1990-2004
• Exhibition - Ultima Thule - 1995
• Exhibition - Atikokan - 1996
• Exhibition - Kenora - 1999
• Applications and Competitions
• Anthropological Artwork
• Cover Designs
• Artwork - Sketches and Photocopies
• Copies for Cards
• Printmaking plates - in small yellow box

Painted Turtle

Records of the Painted Turtle Art Shop, founded May 1983 by Ruth Tye McKenzie, and sold in May 2003. Includes records related to the inception of the shop, advertisements, sales records.

• Painted Turtle - General
• Painted Turtle Start - 1983
• Advertising + Clippings
• Donations + Community Support
• Sales
• Small Business Development 1992
• Window on Art 2000 (2 folders)
• 20th Anniversary Bag
• Thunder Bay Business Women’s Network Awards 1998
• Painted Turtle Weekly Calendar 2000
• Sale 2003
• “Escape of the Painted Turtles”

Personal

Records include personal correspondence, certificates, notes from schooling and continuing education, and art exhibit catalogues featuring Ruth Tye McKenzie’s work.

• Personal - General
• Greeting Cards
• Cards
• Cards and Ceramics Notes - c 1960
• Notebook - Ontario College of Art
• St. Mark’s Church, Dundas - 1961-1962
• Notebook - Lecture Series 1976
• Paid Bills for Construction of Studio - 1976-1977
• Classes at College
• Photograph of Joan Brigden
• Art Catalogues - Publications featuring Ruth Tye McKenzie
• Harkness - Music CD
• Certificates - 1937-1945
• High School Notes
• Sketches - 1946
• Graphic Design Notes
• Colour Charts - Exercises
• 4 small notebooks with daily notes and lists
• Framed picture signed on matting by many friends

Posters

Posters for events kept separately because of size.

• Woodland Indian Art at the McMichael Canadian Collection
• Seven Women at the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre
• Dundas Six and Friends
• Magnus Theatre: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Waiting for Godot
• Art Auction for the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium

Reference Material

Publications and visual reference kept by Ruth Tye McKenzie.

• Postcards
• Bayview Magazine - 2011
• Citizens Commission on Human Rights
• ART-i-culator - 1976-1977
• Catalogues - 1968-1992
• Susan Ross - Thunder Bay Art Gallery - 1994
• The Beaver - 1947-1949
• The Graphic Art of Paul Fournier
• Southwester Indian Arts + Crafts - 1977
• Model Agreements for Visual Artists
• 100 Years Evolution of the Ontario College of Art and Design
• The 39 Women
• The Dolmens of Antequera - 1967
• Van Gogh - 1967
• A Guide to Design - 1976
• A Century of Fashion - 1967
• The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques - 1966

Sketchbooks

• 14” x 17” -- 16 volumes, 1997-2004 and undated
• 11” x 14” -- 18 volumes, 1990-2005 and undated
• 9” x 12” -- 2 volumes, undated
• 8 ½” x 11” -- 8 volumes, 1991-2005 and undated
• 5” x 7” -- 4 voumes, 1996-1998 and undated