Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Architectural Models
- A-9538
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- September 1965
Image of model looking northeast of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Architectural Models
Image of model looking northeast of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Exterior
View looking north of main entrance of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. People walking on sidewalk; trees and landscaping in foreground.
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.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Official Opening
Note on back: "Dean Ole Nielsen chaired the proceedings for the Official Opening of additions and renovations to the main building of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, in the new students' lounge".
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Official Opening
Note on back: "Dr. Lorne Hepworth, MLA, Weyburn Constituency representing Minister of Agriculture, Province of Saskatchewan, brought greetings at the Official Opening of additions and renovations to the main building of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine". Provincial Minister Rick Folk is at far left, holding papers in right hand.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Opening Ceremonies
W. Ross Thatcher, Premier of Saskatchewan, unveils a plaque to officially open the new Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Dignitaries visible behind Mr. Thatcher, with audience members in foreground.
Western College of Veterinary Medicine Building - Opening Ceremonies
Dr. N.O. Nielsen, Head, Department of Veterinary Pathology, gives an address to officially open the new Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Dignitaries visible behind Dr. Nielsen include John G. Diefenbaker, University Chancellor, at far left.
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.