- A-10768
- Item
- March 1962
View of interior of the lounge at St. Andrew's College. People seated on couches and chairs are gathered near the fireplace. A grand piano is visible in background; a plant stand is in foreground.
View of interior of the lounge at St. Andrew's College. People seated on couches and chairs are gathered near the fireplace. A grand piano is visible in background; a plant stand is in foreground.
St. Andrew's College - Residence
View of double room St. Andrew's College residence. One male student is working at a desk, and a second student sits in a chair and reads a book. Two couch/beds visible in foreground; shelving, a window, and a dresser are visible in background.
View of St. Andrew's College sign visible from west side of building. St. Andrew's College building and trees visible in background.
St. Andrew's College - [Staff]
Posed group photo of [staff] standing and seated of St. Andrew's College.
St. Andrew's College - Stained Glass Window
View of stained glass window located in St. Andrew's Chapel. Portion of roof visible.
St. Andrew's College - Theatre
View of St. Andrew's College theatre, taken from the back with chairs in foreground and screen in background.
Image of T. Smith, Purchasing Officer, University of Saskatchewan, seated at his desk.
Head and shoulders photo of Thelma Howard, Professor, Extension Division.
Bio/Historical Note: Thelma Howard retired from Extension in 1989.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine - First Class of Students
Image of the first class of students taking instruction in Veterinary Medicine who have started their four-year professional course. At far left is Dr. R.H. Dunlop, head, Department of Veterinary Physiology.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine - First Class of Students
Posed group photo of the first class of students in Veterinary Medicine who have started their four-year professional course.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Exterior
Looking northeast at WCVM; trees in foreground.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Interim Housing Unit
Image of initial housing unit of WCVM.
Artist William Kurelek contemplates his work - a 32 by 36 foot mural on the inside front wall of the St. Thomas More Chapel.
Bio/Historical Note: William Kurelek, CM (1927-1977) was born in a shack near Whitford, Alberta, north of Edmonton. Kurelek spent most of his boyhood on the family farm in Manitoba. He hated the life and grew up with an increasing sense of alienation at home and at school, and decided in his last year at the University of Manitoba to devote his life to the one talent that brought admiration: his ability to draw. It was after reading Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at university that Kurelek decided to find out if he, too, could become an artist. He tested himself in characteristic fashion, by creating a self-portrait that involved 16 hours of frantic, non-stop painting. As the work neared completion, Kurelek recalled years later, he realized 'the painting had taken over and was directing me. I was an artist. I knew I was an artist.' But Kurelek faced a tortured journey before anyone else accepted him as an artist. He travelled to Toronto in search of an art teacher but left the Ontario College of Art after only a few months and began hitchhiking to Mexico. The artist had been plagued as a young boy by a series of frightening visions and hallucinations, all dealing with pain, suffering, cruelty. While resting under a bridge in Arizona he underwent a vision of a different kind. It was a white-robed figure calling him to be a shepherd. That figure is the someone of Kurelek's autobiography, Someone With Me, published in 1974. Kurelek failed to find an art teacher in Mexico. He returned to Canada and worked as a lumberjack to earn the money for passage to England. But his sense of 'depersonalization, of non-existence' had grown intolerable and he turned himself over to the psychiatric hospital at Maudsley. It was here and in other hospitals that Kurelek finally found himself as a painter. Later, he credited electric shock treatment and his conversion to Catholicism for his reclamation. Kurelek died in Toronto in 1977; he was only 50 years old.