Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1940

Date Range To

1950

Materials

GLASS, WOOD, PAPER

No. Pieces

1

Height

2.0

Length

63.3

Width

49.5

Description

FRAMED PRINT. FRAME IS BLACK PAINTED WOOD, WITH GOLD PAINTED TRIM. FRAME INCLUDES GLASS. PRINT CONSISTS OF A PICTURE OF A YOUNG MAN, WEARING AN ORANGE VEST AND WHITE SHIRT. ONLY THE TOP HALF OF THE BOY IS VISIBLE. ON BOTTOM LEFT OF PICTURE READS "K. FORBES". UNDERNEATH PICTURE READS "DEDICATED TO CANADIAN YOUTH" "CANADA LOOKS TO HER YOUTH". . ."SO MANY OF THEM HAVE FOUGHT FOR IT". BACK OF FRAME IS COVERED WITH BROWN PAPER. THERE IS MASKING TAPE ACROSS PAPER. WRITTEN ON PAPER IN GREEN FELT PEN IS "106" "E. JOHNSON".

Subjects

ART

Historical Association

FINE ARTS

History

BELONGED TO AGNES DAVIDSON. HUNG IN BOWMAN SCHOOL DURING THE 1940S. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHY OF AGNES DAVIDSON, THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS PRINT, WAS DEVELOPED WITH INFORMATION FROM HER LETHBRIDGE HERALD OBITUARY. AGNES DAWN DAVIDSON WAS BORN IN IDAHO AND MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE WITH HER PARENTS AND SIBLINGS IN 1917. HER FATHER, JAMES DAVIDSON, WAS A TEACHER AND SERVED AS THE PRINCIPAL AT LETHBRIDGE' CENTRAL SCHOOL FOR 30 YEARS. AGNES GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA AND BEGAN TEACHING IN COALHURST, THEN LATER AT FLEETWOOD SCHOOL, HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH, AND THE CENTRAL AND BOWMAN SCHOOLS IN LETHBRIDGE, THE LAST AT WHICH SHE WAS VICE-PRINCIPAL. IN 1962 THE AGNES DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS NAMED AFTER HER IN RECOGNITION OF HER EXTENSIVE WORK WITH CHILDREN AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION IN LETHBRIDGE, AND SHE WAS PRESENT AT THE CEREMONIAL LAYING OF THE CORNERSTONE FOR THE BUILDING. AGNES DAVIDSON DIED IN LETHBRIDGE ON MARCH 1, 1975. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPIES OF DAVIDSON'S OBITUARY AND AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE NAMING OF AGNES DAVIDSON SCHOOL. THE FOLLOWING BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BOWMAN SCHOOL BUILDING WAS DEVELOPED WITH INFORMATION FROM THE GALT ARCHIVES. THE MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL BUILDING WAS DESIGNED BY WHIDDINGTON AND WHIDDINGTON ARCHITECTS AND BUILT BY SMITH BROTHERS AND WILSON CONSTRUCTION. IT OPENED FOR CLASSES IN FEBRUARY 1913. BY MARCH 1915 THE BUILDING BECAME HOME TO THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL UNTIL A PURPOSE-BUILT HIGH SCHOOL OPENED IN OCTOBER 1928. THE NEWLY-NAMED BOWMAN SCHOOL (NAMED FOR PROMINENT LETHBRIDGE BUSINESSMAN, SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE, AND POLITICIAN CHARLES BROUGHTON BOWMAN) THEN OPERATED AS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UNTIL 1963, WHEN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD SOLD THE BUILDING TO THE CITY OF LETHBRIDGE. THE BUILDING HOUSED THE CIVIC MUSEUM FROM 1964 UNTIL ITS MOVE INTO THE FORMER GALT HOSPITAL IN 1966, AND THEN THE BOWMAN COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE (MANAGED BY THE ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL) FROM 1966 TO 2013, WHEN THE NEW CASA ARTS CENTRE OPENED ON 3RD AVENUE AND 8TH STREET SOUTH. AT THE TIME OF THIS SURVEY, THE BOWMAN BUILDING WAS UNDER CITY OF LETHBRIDGE OWNERSHIP AND BEING USED TO OPERATE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMMING FOR CHILDREN.

Catalogue Number

P20000025000

Acquisition Date

2001-07

Collection

Museum

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