Object Record
Images
Metadata
Accession # |
AC1994.3.20 |
Item Name |
Ink Drawing Pencil Drawing |
Description |
An untitled black ink over pencil drawing on paper (.20) of houses in Elora, Ontario, by Canadian artist Ellen Stone Beeken (1921-2009); the page has been roughly divided into two halves; on the left side is a drawing of the facade from the left of a one and a half storey brick house with gabel at 22 Metcalfe Street at Carlton Place; it has shutters and four chimneys and surrounded by gardens and foliage; inscribed beneath drawing in ink and pencil, "Geddes house -- then Dr. Paget / (architecutrally twin of Smithhurst house -- kitchen / & fire place on ground level --> [pencil sketch of side elevation of house] / (Norah Webster) / early split level with / kitchen & fireplace / on Basement level / Geddes -- / Metcalfe -- S. -- / 1852 / Webster"; on the right side of the paper is a drawing of the facade of the stone house at 53 Victoria Street at Carlton Place; it is a two-storey house with porch and balcony and a single-storey frame addition at left, with a large tree out front; inscribed in pencil beneath image, "Harness Maker -- / Marston / 1867" and in pen "Victoria &". ART BOX 2 |
Date |
Circa 1977 |
Provenance |
Ellen Stone Beeken (1921-2009) was an Elora-based artist. Her obituary, as published by the Graham Giddy Funeral Home, reads in part: "Artist, lab technician, matriarch. Died peacefully March 10, 2009 at Groves Memorial Hospital in Fergus, Ontario. Ellen was born in Huntingdon, West Virginia on November 30, 1921, and grew up in Hamilton, Ohio. After graduating with a BA from Miami University in Ohio, she moved to New York City and worked as a lab technician during the war. Later, she moved to Canada, and earned a specialist degree in art as applied to medicine (now "Master of Science in Biomedical Communications (MScBMC)"), at the University of Toronto. She married Philip Harold Melville in 1952, after he finished training as a physician. She lived with her family in Toronto, Elora, Timmins, Fergus, and then finally, by 1976, again in Elora. She and Phil were divorced in 1975. Ellen remained in the Elora area, where she continued to follow her passion for family, painting, sketching, nature, learning, community theatre, and books. She had an enquiring, generous, and critical nature, and she vigorously contributed to the local arts community for the rest of her days." |
Person \ Organization |
Beeken, Ellen Geddes Marston Paget, Arthur Henry (Dr.) Smithurst, John (Rev.) Webster |
Place |
Canada Carlton Place Elora Metcalfe Street Ontario Victoria Street |
Year Range from |
1972 |
Year Range to |
1982 |
Art number |
Art 581 |
Creator \ Maker |
Beeken, Ellen S. |
Subjects |
Architecture Streetscape |
Title (art only) |
Untitled |
Art Image size |
14.2 (h) x 5.6 (w) cm. |