From the Author
I would first like to thank Sara Angel for asking me to write this text, and also express my appreciation to Meg Taylor, Sarah Brohman, Alison Reid, Nathalie de Blois, Gaeby Abrahams, and the other members of the ACI team who have been so enthusiastic, helpful, and professional throughout. While I have benefited from conversations with many of Wieland’s friends and colleagues over the years, during the preparation of this online art book I was fortunate enough to meet with Phyllis Lambert, and I’d like to thank her for so vividly describing Wieland’s lively wit and intelligence and for sharing aspects of their friendship.
—Johanne Sloan
From the Art Canada Institute
This online art book was made possible thanks to the generosity of its lead sponsors: The Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts and Phyllis Lambert.
The ACI also gratefully acknowledges its other sponsors of the 2014–15 season of the Canadian Online Art Book Project: Aimia, BMO Financial Group, Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc., The Hal Jackman Foundation, Harold Town Estate, and the TD Bank Group.
Thanks also to the Art Canada Institute Founding Patrons: Jalynn H. Bennett, The Butterfield Family Foundation, David and Vivian Campbell, Albert E. Cummings, Kiki and Ian Delaney, The Fleck Family, Roger and Kevin Garland, Michelle Koerner and Kevin Doyle, Phil Lind, Sarah and Tom Milroy, Charles Pachter, Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan, Sandra L. Simpson, Robin and David Young, and Sara and Michael Angel; as well as its Founding Partner Patrons: The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and Partners in Art.
For their cooperation in creating this work, the ACI extends gratitude to the following institutions and individuals: Jim Shedden at the Art Gallery of Ontario; Allyson Adley at the Art Gallery of York University; the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University; Martha Young at the Canada Council Art Bank; Library and Archives Canada; Raven Amiro, Emily Antler, and Kristin Rothschild at the National Gallery of Canada; Bruce Anderson at the MacKenzie Art Gallery; the Vancouver Art Gallery; University of Lethbridge Art Gallery; and Dennis Reid, John Reeves, Morden Yolles, and John Geoghegan.
Image Sources
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Credits for Banner Images
Biography: Joyce Wieland in 1961, photographed by Michel Lambeth. Estate of Michel Lambeth.
Key Works: Joyce Wieland, Notice Board, 1961. (See below for details.)
Significance & Critical Issues: Joyce Wieland, Confedspread, 1967. (See below for details.)
Style & Technique: Joyce Wieland, The Far Shore, 1976. (See below for details.)
Sources & Resources: Joyce Wieland, True Patriot Love bookwork, 1971. (See below for details.)
Credits for Photographs and Works by Other Artists
Catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition Joyce Wieland, 1987, edited by Marie Fleming. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario and Key Porter Books, 1987.) Photograph by Kayla Rocca.
Invitation to Joyce Wieland: New Paintings at the Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, 1963. York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, Avrom Isaacs fonds (F0134), Accession 1996-036/033 (10). York University, Toronto, F0445 S00036. Photograph by Kayla Rocca.
Invitation to the opening of Joyce Wieland Retrospective, 1957–67 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, Avrom Isaacs fonds (F0134), Accession 1996-036/033 (10). Photograph by Kayla Rocca.
Wieland working on O Canada in 1970, photographed by Robert Rogers. Photography Credit: Robert Rogers. Courtesy of NSCAD University, Gallery Archives, Lithography Workshop Fonds.
Wieland’s True Patriot Love exhibition opening on July 1, 1971, at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Unknown photographer.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Sloan, Johanne, 1959-, author
Joyce Wieland : life & work / Johanne Sloan.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Biography — Key works — Significance & critical issues — Style &
technique — Sources & resources — Where to see.
Electronic monograph.
ISBN 978-1-4871-0040-7 (pdf).—ISBN 978-1-4871-0042-1 (epub)
1. Wieland, Joyce, 1930-1998. 2. Wieland, Joyce, 1930-1998—
Criticism and interpretation. 3. Women artists—Canada—Biography.
I. Art Canada Institute, issuing body II. Title.
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