Framed faded print of etched drawing by Samuel Herbert Maw of the Canadian Nurses' War Memorial installed in 1926 at the Hall of Honour in the Centre Block of the Canadian Parliament Buildings; frame with clear glass and tan matboard surrounding print in brown plain wood frame; back has tan paper g…
Framed faded print of etched drawing by Samuel Herbert Maw of the Canadian Nurses' War Memorial installed in 1926 at the Hall of Honour in the Centre Block of the Canadian Parliament Buildings; frame with clear glass and tan matboard surrounding print in brown plain wood frame; back has tan paper glued around edges and blue paper label with illegible text glued to bottom of lining; hand written title under image; print number 24 of unknown total.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Deaccessioned from the Archives at Stratford General Hospital.
Based on creation of the sculpture and Fred Curry Picture Framing, which closed its framing department after World War Two.
Material
paper: white
ink: black
matboard: yellow
Inscriptions
Hand written on print: "Canadian Nurses' War Memorial Ottawa No 24 S. H. Maw"; written on back of print: "Samuel Herbert Maw // 1881-1952"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-1-1
Length
34.8 cm
Width
25.7 cm
Depth
0.9 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 34.8 cm X Width 25.7 cm X Depth 0.9 cm
Condition Remarks
Matboard yellowed, deges of frame show minor wear, paper backing with several minor losses, brittle and heavily watermarked; paper label missing most of lettering and about half of blue portion
Copy Type
reproduction
Reference Types
Articles
Biography
Reference Comments
Article available on-line: 'Carving out a Past: The Canadian Nurses' Association War Memorial' by Kathryn McPherson
Available on-line: Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada 1800-1950: Maw, Samuel Herbert
BlogTO, Amy Grief, April 5, 2017, "Curry's endures after more than a century in Toronto." https://www.blogto.com/arts/2017/04/curry-artist-materials-toronto/
Research Facts
From the Archives at the Stratford General Hospital; they have a second copy. The Canadian War Museum also holds a copy.
The memorial was commissioned by the Canadian Association of Trained Nurses (now the Canadian Nurses Association) to honour the Canadian Nursing Sisters who served during World War I. The memorial was created by the well-known sculptor George William Hill and was unveiled in 1926. Sadly, it sustained a bit of damage during the shootout in the terrorist attack in 2014.
This print of the memorial was created by Samuel Herbert Maw (1881-1952).
The sticker on the back of the picture originally read "Fred Curry Picture Framing, Yonge St., Toronto." Curry's closed its framing department after the Second World War because most of the framers never returned home from serving in Europe.