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Idea Book.
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Anthony Morse ("Tony") Urquhart, was born at Niagara Falls, Ont., on April 9, 1934. "He studied art at the Albright Art School and U[niversity] of Buffalo. In 1961 he joined a group of London, Ont. artists, including Greg Curnoe and Jack Chambers, who advocated a regional approach to art. Drawing from his own experiences, Urquhart works in a style that makes explicit reference to the underlying complexities and paradoxes he sees in the local landscape. In his boxed landscape sculptures of the 1960's he achieved a surreal juxtaposition of savage and primordial relationships with the actual and familiar. The constructions become at once a personal interior space and a universal collective landscape." [By Kathleen Laverty from Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985.]
Tony Urquhart passed away on January 26, 2022.
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File consists of one commercially produced 11 x 17 cm 200 page ruled lined notebook used by Tony Urquhart as an idea book. The covers are black board and the front cover has a small circle painting. The first two leaves of the book have been taped together to create an envelope which contains various items of ephemera from 1958 to the 2000's.
The idea book includes approximately eighty pages of drawings, approximately forty seven of which are annotated or includes notes. Also includes approximately sixty two pages of handwritten notes and fifty two pages of glued in ephemera. Note that many pages have a combination of media.