Born in the Ukraine, Andrei Zadorozny came to Canada with his parents in 1939. He studied at the School of Art and Design of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts under Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) and Goodridge Roberts (1904-1974). Andrei Zadorozny received his diploma of teaching from St.-Joseph Teachers College and went on to teach art at Father McDonald High School in Montréal. He also taught adult art classes part-time in Montréal and surrounding area, primarily in drawing painting, watercolour and sculpture. Mr. Zadorozny has participated in numerous solos and group shows such as at the arts Club of Montréal (1992) the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts ( 1957-58, 1966) and at Maison des Arts in Granby (1961). His works can be found in many corporate and public collections including the Montreal Museum of Fines Arts, The Winnipeg Art Gallery and McGill University.
Professor and historian, Peter J. Yearwood was born in London, England on May 8, 1948. After graduating from Bishop's University in 1968, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he got a second BA in 1970 (which more or less automatically became an MA a few years later) and then went to the University Of Sussex, where he studied under Christopher Thorne, and eventually gained a PhD in History in 1980. After several years in part-time adult education in London, in 1979 he took up a post in the Department of History at the University of Jos in Nigeria, where he reached the level of Senior Lecturer. In 1996 he returned to England to seek employment and push on with writing a book. In 2000, he took up a post as Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea. He has several publications on British policy in the era of the First World War, on imperial rivalries in Africa, and on the expatriate firms and the Nigerian colonial economy in World War I. He has also worked with colleagues in Jos to develop the historiography of the Central Nigerian area. Author of Nigeria and the Death of Liberal England Palm Nuts and Prime Ministers, 1914-1916. Author note reads: Peter J. Yearwood is Leader of the History, Gender Studies, and Philosophy Strand at the University of Papua New Guinea, and Joint Editor of the South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture. He is the author of Guarantee of Peace, The League of Nations in British Politics 1914-1925 (2009).
Eric Herbert Yarrill was born in Brentford, Isleworth, England on December 28th, 1914, the son of Herbert G. Yarrill and Amelia Louise Blackford, who emigated to Ontario when Eric was a young boy. He became a Canadian citizen on October 2nd 1947. Educated at Toronto, the Sorbonne, and Chicago, he brought superior linguistic talents to naval wartime intelligence as a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy. A highlight of this time came to light in a Radio-Canada broadcast, an historical documentary on German operations in Canada during the Second World War. Part of these operations included dropping off two spies on Canada’s east coast, one of whom surrendered to Eric Yarrill. On July 24th, 1945, he married Edith Marguerite Oedelshoff in Newport, Vermont, who predeceased him on May 9th 2004. Eric Yarrill taught Modern Languages at Bishop's from 1938 to 1977 - a distinguished career teaching French, German, and some Spanish, after which he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus in 1978. Professor Yarrill passed away in his 91st year, peacefully at his home in Lennoxville, Qc, on January 2nd, 2005. He left to mourn his two sisters: Stella Anthes of Niagara Falls, Ont, and Mary Foster of Quispamsis, NB. Their years at Bishop’s were rewarding for both the Yarrills and Bishop’s modern languages students. Their house on campus, which for many years was known as Yarrill House (now Morris House), was many a student’s home away from home. In 1989 Bishop's University has established the Professor E.H. Yarrill Prize, awarded anually at Convocation to a graduating student for proficiency in French and at least one additional modern language other than English.
Josef Wolf was born in the Eifel, Germany, on 22 January 1820 on a farm in Mörz in Münstermaifeld. As a child he was known for his artistic talent. After finishing school in Metternich he was trained in Koblenz from 1836 to 1839 as a lithographer.
Through the mediation of the Frankfurter explorer Eduard Rüppel (1794-1884) in 1840 he came into contact with Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) at the Grand Ducal natural history collection in Darmstadt. He promoted the extraordinary talent of the young artist and recommended him to his colleagues Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) in Leiden and John Gould (1804-1881) in London as an illustrator.
From 1848 onward Wolf lived and worked in London, where he quickly became the most important animal painter of the 19th century.
Susan Anglin Winn graduated from Bishop's University in 1961, and later received a M.Ed. from McGill University. In 1996 she retired from the Lester B. Pearson School Board after 32 years as a teacher, consultant and school administrator.
Richard Dinnis Wilson was born in Montréal in 1920. He has traveled across Canada and to most parts of the world, sketching architecture. He is known best for his sketches of Old Montréal, which were published in 1964 in the book called "The Living Past of Montréal", with text by Eric McLean. In the early 1970’s, he visited Bishop’s University, and using the dry-brush illustration technique, he captured fourteen familiar views of Bishop's Campus and Community landmarks. He died in 1994.
American artist James McNeil Whistler was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834. Whistler spent his boyhood in Russia, returning to United States in 1849. He attended West Point, (1851-54) and had drawing lessons from Robert Weir (1803-1889). In 1855 he went to Paris and studied painting under Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) After 1859, Whistler lived chiefly in London although he visited Venice in 1879. He was influenced by Henri Fantin-Latoru (1836-1904), Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), and by Japanese prints. He died in London in 1903.
Orson Wheeler (1902-1990)
Born in the village of Way’s Mills in 1902, Orson Wheeler was a professor in the fine arts department at Concordia University in the Montréal for much of his Professional career. A sculptor by training, he is perhaps best known for his bronze busts of noted Canadians. Wheeler was also a talented designer, however, and produced some 200 architectural models. The McGill School of Architecture owns many of these.
During his lifetime, Orson Wheeler’s work was exhibited at venues around the world, including London’s famous Tate Gallery, the New York World’s Fair in 1939 and the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. His bronzes may be found in collections at Concordia University, Bishop’s University, (Lennoxville), the National Gallery (Ottawa) and the Supreme Court of Canada (Ottawa), among others.
One of Wheeler’s best-known pieces is the bronze relief map that he produced of the Eastern Townships for the Pioneer Monument on Dufferin Heights. Many of the Wheeler’s plaster casts, including one of actor Christopher Plummer as a young boy, as well as the artist’s own personal archives, are in the collection of the Colby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead.
Peter Whalley, the younger brother of George Whalley, was one of the first cartoonists in Canada to display a warped, sardonic sense of humour on the editorial pages of a newspaper when he started drawing for the Montréal Standard in the early 1940s. Whalley, the son of an Anglican clergyman, was born in Brockville, Ontario in 1921. He grew up in Halifax where he attended the Nova Scotia College of Art. He died in St. Jerome, Quebec in 2007.
Source: Excerpted from article" Cartoonist displayed sardonic humour" by Alan Hustak in the Montreal Gazette, 22 September, 2007.
George Whalley (25 July 1915 - 27 May 1983) was a scholar, poet, naval officer and secret intelligence agent during World War II, CBC broadcaster, musician, biographer, and translator.He taught English at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (1950-80) and was twice the head of the department. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1959. He married Elizabeth Watts on July 25, 1944. His brother, Peter Whalley, was a famous artist and cartoonist. Whalley completed his first B.A. at Bishop's University, in Lennoxville, Quebec, graduating in 1935. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed his second B.A. at Oriel College, Oxford, in 1939. He received an M.A. from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1945. He completed his second M.A. degree at Bishop's University in 1948. His thesis was entitled "A Critique of Criticism." He received his Ph.D. from King's College, University of London, in 1950. Whalley was a leading expert on the writings of the poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Whalley served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (1940-56) and was on active duty in the
Royal Navy (1940-45). After the war, Whalley served as the Commander to HMCS Cataraqui in Kingston (1952-56). He retired with the rank of Commander in 1956. Whalley's wartime poetry has been praised as displaying a mature range and scope unique amongst second world war poets. George Whalley died in Kingston, Ontario in 1983.
Henry Wellge was a German born lithographer who immigrated to United States in 1871. His name first appeared in Milwaukee in 1878, and from 1879 to 1884, he worked for Joseph J. Stoner, lithographer and publisher. From 1884 to 1886, Wellge was in a partnership with George E. Norris, and that firm eventually became Norris, Wellge and Company. He was known for his "Bird's Eye View" maps of Québec and many cities in America. In 1886, he formed his own company, Henry Wellge and Company. He died in 1917.
Renowned as a talented portrait painter, Robin Watt ( Henry Robertson) was born in Victoria, British Columbia and studied at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England. During World War I, he served as an officer with the Green Howard Regiment, was wounded in battle and decorated with the Military Cross, and the Croix de Guerre. After the war, he studied for three years at the Slade School of Art, London, with Henry Tonks, Walter Russell, and William Steer; at the St. Martin's School of Art and at the Central School of Art where he learned etching under W.P. Robins. Later, he continued his studies at the Académie Colorossi in Paris and the British School of Art in Rome. An admirer of Augustus John and Edgar Dégas, he worked in oil, watercolour and charcoal, favouring a realist approach, producing portraits, still lifes, and in his later years abstract works.
By the late 1920s, he returned to Canada and settled in Montréal. Around 1932, he returned to England, where he worked for an unknown period with his wife Dodie Watt, as an art teacher in a boy's school. Upon his return to Canada in 1949, he was immediately recognized as a fine portraitist and in the same year, invited to paint the portrait of Earl Wavell, Colonel of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) on the occasion of his visit to Canada. In 1951, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts held a solo exhibition of Watt's portraits and still lifes that art critic Robert Ayre recommended they call "Faces and Flowers".
He died in 1964.
Reverend Benjamin Watkins was a Professor of Classics at Bishop's University from 1880-1895.
Marie Aimeé Warrot was born in France on the 18th of February 1915. She gave her first piano recital at the age of seven. From the age of nine she attended the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris, until the age of fifteen when she was awarded the first prize in piano. She worked with Robert Casadesus and Alfred Cortot, and also studied in Vienna, Austria with the great pianist Emil von Sauer, who had been a student of Franz Liszt and Nicholas Rubinstein. Marie Aimée Warrot's musical tour of Europe was interrupted by World War II, and recommenced in 1944, encompassing North America in 1955. She gave recitals for television and radio, and appeared with many of the great European orchestras playing all over Europe. In 1969 Marie Aimée Warrot came to live in the Eastern Townships with her husband Bishop's University Professor Claude Treil. Marie Aimée Warrot made two critically
acclaimed musical recordings, the first in 1970 and the second in 1971. In March of 1971 she gave a last recital in Centennial Theatre at Bishop's University. She died in September of 1971.
Emily Mary Bibbens Warren was born in England in 1869. She became a British-Canadian artist and illustrator. She worked in ink, watercolour, oil, gouache, and graphite. Her favourite subjects included gardens, landscape, and the interiors and exteriors of buildings. She is well known for sunlight beaming through stained glass windows.
Emily Warren instigated a successful movement to have John Ruskin's home, Brantwood, made into a museum. She lectured before Ruskin Societies.
She took a course in architecture by Sir Bannister Fletcher. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. She took certificates in biology, botany and geology. She moved to Canada in 1919 and lived in Ottawa, Ontario. She lived in Montreal, Quebec from 1928 to 1934. She died in Dunrobin, Ontario in 1956.
She was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Watercolour Society, the Old Dudley Arts Society, the Aberdeen Society of Arts and the Society of Women Artists. She was a member of the Committee for Preservation of Memorials in London.
Critical success
In 1921 she was commissioned by Sir Robert Borden to come to Canada to complete two large canvasses. One, a painting entitled Canada's Tribute, The Great War 1914–1919 and two, Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe's Monument in Westminster Abbey. The Canada Tribute paintings were initially hung in the Parliament Buildings but have been hung in the Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Hall of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario since 1947.
She traveled and painted in British Columbia, Belgium, Scotland and France. She exhibited in England. She illustrated Homes and Haunts of John Ruskin by E.T. Cook. She gave lectures in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s illustrated by 1900 handcoloured glass slides reproducing her own paintings. Half of the 1900 slides are in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, along with an extensive collection of correspondence, lecture notes, and biographical material. Two boxes of slides of drawings of individual generals' faces and of flags, preliminary drawings for her paintings, Canada's Tribute and Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe's Monument in Westminster Abbey, are in the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. She died in 1956.
Beulah Lilian Marlin Walker graduated from Bishop's University in 1938 with a High School Diploma' and her sister Millicent Marlin graduated in the same year. In 1942 Beulah Marlin married Frederick Walker. She was a teacher at Granby High School, 1939-1941; Assistant Principal at the Brownsburg Intermediate School, 1941-1942; and later office clerk Superheater Company, Sherbrooke. Beulah Walker died on June 24, 2004 in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Monique Voyer was born in 1928 in Magog, Eastern Townships. Before going to École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Voyer went to the Montréal School of Fine Arts, having as teachers Stanley Cosgrove (1911-2002), Alfred Pellan (1906-1988), and Irène Sénécal (1901-1978). She began teaching at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal in 1972, before returning permanently Magog in 1979. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She passed away January, 2021 in Magog, Québec.
Monique Voyer est née en 1928 dans les Cantons de l’Est. Elle fait ses études à l’École des beaux-arts de Montréal et à l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, en plus d’effectuer plusieurs stages de perfectionnement en estampes et techniques multiples. Elle fut professeure au collégial de 1972 à 1993. Elle est membre de l’Académie royale des arts du Canada. Elle est décédée en janvier 2021 à Magog, Québec.
"After apprenticing with one of her native Germany’s leading photographers, Joy von Tiedemann immigrated to Canada at the age of twenty, quickly establishing herself as one of the country’s most accomplished freelance photographers with a practice that spans fashion, portraiture, architecture, interior design and, most recently, construction where she brilliantly captures the raw energy and timeless beauty of the “art of building.” Through her lens she masterfully records the process of transforming steel, concrete and rebar into architectural icons for the ages, and nowhere is that more in evidence than in her most recent project: Documenting the creation of Toronto’s The One, soon-to-be Canada’s tallest building. Perhaps the reason why her images so viscerally connect with viewers is because they boldly express her own indelible personality: energetic, endlessly inquisitive and with the empathy necessary to plumb a subject’s essence with absolute honesty and aesthetic acuity."
Adolphe Vogt (1842-1871)
Canadian artist, born in Germany.
Maurice Utrillo, (born December 26, 1883, Paris, France—died November 5, 1955, Le Vésinet), French painter who was noted for his depictions of the houses and streets of the Montmartre district of Paris.
Dr. Claude Treil, Professor of French literature and civilization, taught at Bishop’s University from 1969 to 1989. Born in France in 1921, he joined the resistance shortly after the Nazi occupation of his country in 1940, was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo, escaped through Spain (another seven months in Franco's jails) and joined the Free French Forces in North Africa in 1943. In 1944 he was sent as liaison officer with the British 2nd Army and, after an eventful campaign in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany in 1944-45, he was awarded the croix de guerre avec citation." He went back to civilian life in Paris and, as he put it, “had a taste of liberated life.”
He came to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1949 for two years as lecturer at Victoria College and spent another two years teaching at University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) in Vancouver. Back in France in 1953 , he married concert-pianist Marie-Aimee Varro in Paris, then resumed teaching at U.B.C. from 1955 to 1966 and Dalhousie University in Halifax from 1966 to 1969. His wife made her last public appearance at a memorable recital in Bishop's Centennial Theatre in March 1971. She died of cancer a few months later.
Professor Treil got his French Baccalaureat in Besancon, France, and a license d’anglais at the Sorbonne in Paris. He holds a B.A. from U.B.C., an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Laval University in Quebec. He had worked for the C.B.C. radio and television school broadcasts and had given public lectures in many clubs, schools and universities in Canada, mostly in connection with his book on L’Indifference dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus. (Source: Alumni Newsletter, June 1989, by Howard Brown, Professor of Music)
The Québec painter Fernand Toupin was born in 1930 in Montréal. At the age of 19, he attended evening classes at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal. From 1949 to 1953, he studied painting with Jean-Paul Jerome worked under artist Stanley Cosgrove. He a signatory with Jean-Paul Jerome, Louis Belxile and Jauran of the Plastic Artists manifestation of 1955. Plasticists are opposed to the spontaneous and impulsive spot of the automatists, and for a more rigorous pictorial construction focusing on the sharpness of the line and the purity of colour. Mr. Toupin died in at Terrebonne, Québec in 2009.
Guido Tondino taught Drama at Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec from 1979-1983. He is one of the country's top designers, having worked professionally since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada/NTS. He also studied at Tulane University. For Centaur Theatre , with whom he has had a long relationship, he designed the premieres of Vittorio Rossi's The Chain and Paradise by the River; David Fennario's Moving; Kit Brennan's Having (1999); as well as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, David French's Salt-Water Moon, and Paul Ledoux and David Young's Fire. He has also designed for the Saidye Bronfman Centre (Cold Storage), Neptune Theatre (Les Canadiens) and Tarragon Theatre (Something Red).
From 1986-91 he was the associate director and resident designer for Theatre Calgary where he designed, among other works, Hamlet and Waiting for Godot. He has worked extensively at the Stratford Festival, drawing critical raves in 1997 for his design for the company's Death of a Salesman. For the company he also designed Much Ado About Nothing, The Night of the Iguana, Filumena and The Little Foxes (among others). He designed productions of Present Laughter (Soulpepper Theatre Company 2001); Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and Harold Green Jewish Theatre 2010); La Peau d'Elisa by Carole Fréchette (2011), L'Homme du hasard, Grace & Gloria by Tom Ziegler (trans Michel Tremblay (2011), and Porc-épic by David Paquet (2012) at UniThéâtre. He has also designed in the United States, where he lived from 1980 to 1986, for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and the National Theatre of Romania. From 1998 to 2002, he was the director of design at the National Theatre School of Canada. He is currently in the faculty of the University of Alberta Drama Department.
Ruth Tomlinson graduated from McGill in 1930 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1970. She studied painting, first under A. Sheriff Scott (1887–1980) and later under Arthur Lismer (1885-1969). Her works have been exhibited in shows such as those of the Montréal Arts Club, the Edinburgh Festival, and annually from 1956 at the Chelsea Arts Society. Her works can be found in public and private collections primarily in Canada and England.
Tom Thomson was a Canadian artist born in Ontario in 1877. He was known for his colourful paintings of the Algoma region and he was the inspiration for Group of Seven painters. He died in Algonquin Park in 1917.
Madge Tennent, born Madeline Cook in Dulwich, England, moved with her family to Cape Town, South Africa when she was five. At the age of twelve, she entered an art school in Cape Town and following year her parents, who recognized and encouraged her talent, moved to Paris to enable Madeline to study there. In Paris she studied figure drawing under William Bouguereau, an experience that laid the technical foundation for her later figural drawings and paintings. She and her family subsequently returned to South Africa, and after her marriage in 1915 to Hugh Cowper Tennent, she relocated to his native New Zealand.