Campus - Scenic - Murray Memorial Library
- A-9623
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- June 1967
Looking west at the north wing of the Murray Memorial (Main) Library; Arts Building at right.
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Campus - Scenic - Murray Memorial Library
Looking west at the north wing of the Murray Memorial (Main) Library; Arts Building at right.
College of Arts and Science Building - Exterior
View of Arts Building with second classroom wing in background. Students are standing and walking on sidewalk in front; students also sitting on a bench. Trees in foreground.
Campus - Scenic - Students Changing Classes
Note on back: "Enrolment: some 11,650 students and an undetermined number of bicycles". Rows of occupied bike racks in front of Arts Building dominate the photo. Students carrying books and walking on pathway with their bikes.
Statues - Lesya Ukrainka - Dignitaries
Group photo of dignitaries present at the unveiling ceremony of the 10-foot high bronze statue of Lesya Ukrainka, the celebrated Ukrainian poet. Back row from l to r: Tom Gauley, Chairman, Board of Governors; R.W. Begg, University President; V.O. Buyniak, Head, Department of Slavic Studies; and Nina Okhatrina, Ukrainian representative. Front row (l to r): Ukrainian representatives Volodymr F. Skofenko, Mikhalio Stelmakh, and Mikola Manoiolo.
Bio/Historical Note: Lesya Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach-Kvitka) (1871-1913), the celebrated Ukrainian poet, made her mark on Ukrainian and world literature through her diverse writing talents. Her profound knowledge of world history and languages enabled her to write extensively across genres on a variety of subjects. In her lyrical works and dramatic poems, she vividly developed the themes of patriotism, human dignity, and personal integrity. Ukrainka’s work is timeless in its powerful assertion of human rights and freedoms. In 1976, a bronze statue of Lesya Ukrainka, made in Kyiv, Ukraine (USSR) by sculptor Halyna Kal’chenko and architect Anatoliy Ihnashchenko, was unveiled at the University of Saskatchewan. Commissioned by the Association for Cultural Relations with Ukrainians Abroad, the statue was at the time seen by some merely as Soviet propaganda designed to rehabilitate their international reputation tarnished, in part, by injustices perpetrated against the people of Ukraine. The gift was initially declined by both the Province of Saskatchewan and the City of Saskatoon before being accepted by the University of Saskatchewan and installed on campus in a grove south of the Arts Tower. Through a generous donation by Dr. Victor O. Buyniak, as well as through the support of alumni and the wider Ukrainian community, the statue was refurbished and unveiled in its present location on 1 August 2013, the centenary of the death of Lesya Ukrainka.
Bio/historical note: A statue of Lesya Ukrainka, the celebrated Ukrainian poet, was presented to the U of S in 1976 by the Association for Cultural Relations with Ukrainians Abroad of the USSR as a gift of friendship from the people of Ukraine to the people of Canada.
College of Arts and Science Building - Interior
A female student sits beside a metal sculpture in Arts Building; possibly in the classroom wing.
Campus - Scenic - Arts Building
Looking east at Arts Building; students walking on pathway. North wing of Murray Memorial (Main) Library visible in background.
College of Arts and Science Building - Exterior
View of the Arts Tower from the Murray Memorial (Main) Library.
Campus - Scenic - Arts Building
Students seated on small stone walls in the sunshine, others walking along pathway in front of Arts Building. Trees and bicycles in background, lamp post at left.
University of Saskatchewan Arts Building Tower
An elevated shot looking northwest [likely taken from the Murray Library]. The Arts and Science Tower is in the centre of the image. City in the background.
Campus - Scenic - Students Changing Classes
Looking northwest at students changing classes in front of Arts Building; Arts Tower at left.
Murray Memorial Library - North Wing - Exterior
Looking north at the Murray Library. Students changing classes in front of a parking lot; Arts Tower at left.
Bio/Historical Note: Though the first recorded withdrawal from the University Library occurred in October 1909, nearly five decades passed before the Library had its own building. The early collection was housed either on the second floor of the College Building (later known as the Administration Building) or was scattered among a number of small departmental libraries. Plans for a new library building in the late 1920s were ended by the start of the Great Depression; but a dramatically reduced acquisitions budget was offset by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation in 1933. In 1943 the University hired its first professional Librarian. A combination of provincial grants and University fundraising financed the construction of the Murray Memorial Library. The library was named after the University’s first President, Walter C. Murray. Designed by noted Regina architect Kioshi Izumi working under H.K. Black, Architect, it marked a change in campus architecture away from the more angular and elaborate Collegiate Gothic style to that of the less expensive cube. Building materials included granite at the entrance and Tyndall stone as a wall cladding and window trim. In addition to the library, the building housed the College of Law, an office of the Provincial Archives and a 105-seat lecture theatre equipped with the latest in audiovisual teaching aids. The most dramatic transformation took place between 1970 and 1976 when a six floor south wing was added along with an extensive renovation of the 1956 structure. Designed by BLM, Regina, the south wing was unlike any other building on campus. Clad in Tyndall stone panels made to look like concrete (through a "bush hammered" finish), the grey almost windowless building is industrial and utilitarian in appearance. The University's master plan required buildings in the core of campus to be clad in stone. However, the "bush hammered" finish was used since the Library addition was built during a period that saw the flowering of "Brutalist" Architecture, so called because of the wide use of exposed concrete. The new (south) wing, originally called the Main Library, was officially opened on 17 May 1974, and also became the home of the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Graduate Studies and the University Archives.
Front entrance Arts Tower and Place Riel Theatre
Part of John G. Diefenbaker fonds
Theatre and side of Arts tower.
Part of John G. Diefenbaker fonds
Arts Tower and front view of classroom wing addition.
Front entrance Arts Tower and Place Riel Theatre
Part of John G. Diefenbaker fonds
Arts Tower at seven stories on the University of Saskatchewan campus.
Front entrance Arts Tower and Place Riel Theatre
Part of John G. Diefenbaker fonds
Arts Tower at seven stories on the University of Saskatchewan campus.