Collection glen-24 - Alberta Artists Oral History Project collection

This collection was originally compiled by Helen K. Wright, who was commissioned by the Glenbow Art Department to gather reminiscences of artists and individuals working in the art field, pertaining to the lives and work of artists and the history of art movements in Alberta. Over the course of the project she interviewed over fifty artists and art curators, including Leslie Agghazy, Mary Andrews, Hanna Beeger, Robert Carmichael, Fred Carney, Anne Clark-Darrah, Lucien Compernol, Pat Conan, Ted Diakow, David Fisher, Leo Foulem, Francine Gravel, Harlan House, Douglas Haynes, Illingworth Kerr, Pat Kemball (ManWoman), Archibald Key, D. Knowles, Ron Kostyniuk, Kurt Kranz, Roy Leadbeater, Les Manning, W.J. Phillips, Naboru Sawai, Charles Scott James Agrell Smith, Jack Turner, and W.P. Weston. After the completion of the Wright project, Patricia Ainslie, Duncan Cameron, Chris Jackson, Vince Varga, and other staff members of the Glenbow Art Department continued to conduct interviews with members of the art community, including Sybil Andrews, Caven Atkins, Claude Bissell, Stan Blodgett (and others concerning the work of Marion Nicoll and H.G. Glyde), Charles Livingston Bull, Ron Davey, Rosemary Donegan, Jimmy Ernst (son of Max Ernst), John Esler, Terry Fenton, Bruce Ferguson, H.G. Glyde, Les Graf, John Hall, Peter Hassrick, Doug Haynes, MacGregor Hone, Yetsko Ironside, Chris Jackson, Barbara Leighton, Ron Moppett, Doug Morton, Tin Ng, Peter Ohler, Stan Perrott, Clifford Robinson, Drake Shelton (concerning his sister Margaret Shelton), Bob Sinclair, Jeffrey Spalding, Eilleen Taylor, Peter Thielsen, Clarence Tillenius, Nancy Tousley, Vincent Tovell, Karen Wilkin, Liz Willie, George Wood and Norman Yates.