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Maria Tippett

April 11, 2024

Maria W. Tippett (born 9 December 1944) is a Canadian historian specialising in Canadian art history. Her 1979 biography of Emily Carr won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.

Educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of London, Tippett has gone on to win several awards and has written extensive biographies of Emily Carr, Frederick Varley, Bill Reid, and Yousuf Karsh. Tippett has also written, among others, books on the photography of Charles Gimpel, the parents of the AIDS scientist David Ho, Canadian war art, landscape painting in addition to two collections of short stories. In addition to her writing, Tippett has held positions and fellowships at several universities, including Simon Fraser University, York University, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Cambridge University.

Biography edit

Raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Tippett travelled through Europe and the Middle East for three years following high school before attending Vancouver City College and Simon Fraser University.[1] She received a doctorate in history from the University of London.[2] From 1971 to 1983 she was married to Canadian Historian Douglas Cole. In 1991 she married Professor Peter Clarke, British historian and former Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.

Until 1990, Tippett taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, Emily Carr College of Art and Design and was the Robarts Professor of Canadian Studies at York University, Toronto.

At Cambridge she was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall (1991–1992), then a research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute (1993–95).[3] In 1995 she was appointed a senior research fellow and tutor at Churchill College, Cambridge (1995–2004).[2] Tippett was a member of the Cambridge Faculty of History from 1992 to 2004 and was chair of the Churchill College Art Gallery from 1997 to 2001. In 1997 she and Peter Clarke wrote the libretto for the opera, Churchill's Finest Hour, A Musical Burlesque in four acts, composed by Jeremy Thurlow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

In 2004, Tippett returned to Canada and was an associate research professor at Simon Fraser University from 2006 to 2010.[2][3]

Tippett was a member of the editorial board of The Canadian Historical Review, Canadian Art, Art Focus and an Arts Journalist Fellow at The Banff Centre in 1988. In 1992 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3] She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Windsor in 1994,[4] and from the University of Victoria (2006)[5] as well as from Simon Fraser University (2006).[6][3] In May 2014, Maria Tippett's name was added to Victoria High School's "Wall of Fame".

In the course of her career, Tippett has curated art exhibitions at Simon Fraser University Art Gallery (BC Canada), the London Region Art Gallery (Ontario, Canada), the National Library (Luxembourg), as well as at the Clare Hall Gallery at Cambridge University and the Art Gallery at Churchill College (Cambridge University). She has judged the Governor General's non-fiction Book Award and the BC Book Prize. She has lectured in South America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia in addition to Canada and the United States.

Tippett has also been a consultant and television presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1998, Tippett was appointed to The Canadian Memorial Foundation, Canada House in London, where she was a member of the board until 2005. In 2010 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From 2012 to 2019, she was a member of the Craigdarroch Research Awards Committee at the University of Victoria and also a member of the President's Advisory Committee and the Dean of Fine and Performing Arts' Advisory Committee at the same institution. In 2021 Tippett became a member of the Advisory Board of The British Columbia Review and in 2023 joined the board of the British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes.

Works edit

Books edit

  • From Desolation to Splendour: Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape (1977) [with Douglas Cole][3]
  • Phillips in Print: The Selected Writings of Walter J. Phillips on Canadian Nature and Art (1977) [with Douglas L. Cole][4]
  • Emily Carr, A Biography (1979)[3]
  • Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War (1984)
  • Breaking the Cycle, and Other Stories from a Gulf Island (1989)
  • Making Culture: English-Canadian Institutions and the Arts before the Massey Commission (1990)
  • By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women (1992)
  • Between Two Cultures: A Photographer among the Inuit (1994)
  • Becoming Myself: A Memoir (1996)
  • Stormy Weather: F.H. Varley, A Biography (1998)
  • Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian (2004)
  • Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh (2007)
  • Eating Bitter: A Chinese American Saga (2010)
  • Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture (2015)
  • Sculpture in Canada: A History (2017)
  • Sculpture and its Relation to Writing, Music, Photography and Modernism (editor) (2020)
  • Art for Art's Sake (2022)
  • Canadian Art Matters, New Ways of Seeing (forthcoming)

Papers edit

Selected List

  • "A Life in History: From Making Culture to Making Cultural History" Canadian Historical Review, March (Vol 99 No. 1) 2018
  • "Jeffrey Rubinoff and Canada" James Fox (ed). The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2016)
  • "Art Made for Strangers': Re-Thinking Inuit Art" Sir Roy Calne and William O'Reilly (eds). Scepticism (New York: Nova Publishers, 2012)
  • "Canadian Culture" Irvin Stubin (ed). What is a Canadian? (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2006)
  • "Expressing Identity" Beaver Magazine Vol 86 No 1 (2000)
  • "Cultural History: A Subject in Search of a Agenda" Canadian Historical Review, Volume 5 No 3 (1994)
  • "Canadian Art and the Great War" Franz K. Stanzel (ed)., Intimate Enemies: English-German literary reactions to the Great War (Heidelberg: Universitat verlag C. Winter, 1993)
  • "Sea and Art" L.D. McCann (ed). The Sea and Culture of Atlantic Canada (Sackville: Mount Allison University, 1992)
  • "The Origins of the Canada Council: the most generous sugar daddy art has ever known" in Peter Easingwood et al. Probing Canadian Culture (Augsburg: A-V Verlag, 1991)
  • "Emily Carr" Michael Toobey (ed). True North: Canadian Landscape Painting 1896–1939 (London: Barbican Art Gallery, 1991)
  • "Canadian Art and Propaganda During the Great War" Canadian High Commission, (London) [pamphlet] (1989)
  • "The Making of English-Canadian Culture, 1900–1939: the external influences" [pamphlet] York University, 1988
  • "The writing of English-Canadian cultural history, 1970–85." The Canadian Historical Review Volume 67, Issue 4 (1986).

Exhibitions curated with catalogue edit

  • Selected List
  • "Contemporaries of Emily Carr" Simon Fraser University Art Gallery (1974)
  • "Ingeborg Mohr, selected works" Simon Fraer University Art Gallery (1983)
  • "Lest We Forget" London Regional Art Gallery (1989)
  • "Charles Gimpel, photographer of Arctic Canada and Collector of Inuit Art" National Library, Luxembourg, (1995)
  • "Marcel Barbeau", Churchill College Art Gallery, 2000.

Awards and honours edit

  • Butler Book Prize, 2018, short-listed, "Sculpture in Canada, a history"
  • Melva J Dwyer Award, 2018, short-listed, "Sculpture in Canada, a history"
  • Hubert Evans non-fiction Prize, 2016, short-listed, "Made in British Columbia, Eight Ways of Making Culture"
  • Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize, short-listed, 2016, "Made in British Columbia, Eight Ways of Making Culture"
  • Canadian non-fiction Award, short-listed, 2007, Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh
  • Dafoe Book Prize, short-listed, 2008, "Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh"
  • Honorary doctorate, Simon Fraser University, 2006
  • Honorary doctorate, University of Victoria, 2006
  • Hubert Evans non-fiction Prize, 2004, "Bill Reid, the making of an Indian"
  • Honorary L.L.D., Windsor University, 1994
  • BC Book Prize, short-listed, 1993, "By a Lady, Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women"
  • Van City Book Prize, short-listed, 1993, "By a Lady, Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women"
  • Canada 125 Medal, 1992
  • elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3] in 1992
  • Canadian Studies Writing Award, 1982
  • Governor General's Award for non-fiction, 1979, "Emily Carr: a biography"
  • John A. Macdonald History Prize, 1979, "Emily Carr: a biography"
  • Garneau Medal, short-listed, 1980, "Emily Carr: a biography"
  • Eaton's BC Book Award – now the BC and Yukon Book Prize, 1978, "From Desolation to Splendour: changing perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape" [3]

References edit

  1. ^ Charlotte Gray. "An Author Discovers Herself Maria Tippett: Becoming Myself, A Memoir by Maria Tippett Stoddart" Toronto Star. 30 November 1996
  2. ^ a b c "Hard work wins respect". archive.is. 28 June 2013. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Canadian Who's Who 2012–2013 Volume XLVII, Third Sector Publishing, Orillia, Ontario, Distributed by University of Toronto Press
  4. ^ "Recipients" (PDF). www.uwindsor.ca. U of Windsor. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Recipients". www.uvic.ca. uvic. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Recipients". www.sfu.ca. SFU. Retrieved 27 September 2023.

April 11, 2024
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Maria W Tippett born 9 December 1944 is a Canadian historian specialising in Canadian art history Her 1979 biography of Emily Carr won the Governor General s Award for English language non fiction Educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of London Tippett has gone on to win several awards and has written extensive biographies of Emily Carr Frederick Varley Bill Reid and Yousuf Karsh Tippett has also written among others books on the photography of Charles Gimpel the parents of the AIDS scientist David Ho Canadian war art landscape painting in addition to two collections of short stories In addition to her writing Tippett has held positions and fellowships at several universities including Simon Fraser University York University Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Cambridge University Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2 1 Books 2 2 Papers 2 3 Exhibitions curated with catalogue 3 Awards and honours 4 ReferencesBiography editRaised in Victoria British Columbia Tippett travelled through Europe and the Middle East for three years following high school before attending Vancouver City College and Simon Fraser University 1 She received a doctorate in history from the University of London 2 From 1971 to 1983 she was married to Canadian Historian Douglas Cole In 1991 she married Professor Peter Clarke British historian and former Master of Trinity Hall Cambridge University Until 1990 Tippett taught at Simon Fraser University the University of British Columbia Emily Carr College of Art and Design and was the Robarts Professor of Canadian Studies at York University Toronto At Cambridge she was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall 1991 1992 then a research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute 1993 95 3 In 1995 she was appointed a senior research fellow and tutor at Churchill College Cambridge 1995 2004 2 Tippett was a member of the Cambridge Faculty of History from 1992 to 2004 and was chair of the Churchill College Art Gallery from 1997 to 2001 In 1997 she and Peter Clarke wrote the libretto for the opera Churchill s Finest Hour A Musical Burlesque in four acts composed by Jeremy Thurlow of Churchill College Cambridge In 2004 Tippett returned to Canada and was an associate research professor at Simon Fraser University from 2006 to 2010 2 3 Tippett was a member of the editorial board of The Canadian Historical Review Canadian Art Art Focus and an Arts Journalist Fellow at The Banff Centre in 1988 In 1992 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 3 She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Windsor in 1994 4 and from the University of Victoria 2006 5 as well as from Simon Fraser University 2006 6 3 In May 2014 Maria Tippett s name was added to Victoria High School s Wall of Fame In the course of her career Tippett has curated art exhibitions at Simon Fraser University Art Gallery BC Canada the London Region Art Gallery Ontario Canada the National Library Luxembourg as well as at the Clare Hall Gallery at Cambridge University and the Art Gallery at Churchill College Cambridge University She has judged the Governor General s non fiction Book Award and the BC Book Prize She has lectured in South America Europe Japan New Zealand Australia in addition to Canada and the United States Tippett has also been a consultant and television presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation In 1998 Tippett was appointed to The Canadian Memorial Foundation Canada House in London where she was a member of the board until 2005 In 2010 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton From 2012 to 2019 she was a member of the Craigdarroch Research Awards Committee at the University of Victoria and also a member of the President s Advisory Committee and the Dean of Fine and Performing Arts Advisory Committee at the same institution In 2021 Tippett became a member of the Advisory Board of The British Columbia Review and in 2023 joined the board of the British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes Works editBooks edit From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape 1977 with Douglas Cole 3 Phillips in Print The Selected Writings of Walter J Phillips on Canadian Nature and Art 1977 with Douglas L Cole 4 Emily Carr A Biography 1979 3 Art at the Service of War Canada Art and the Great War 1984 Breaking the Cycle and Other Stories from a Gulf Island 1989 Making Culture English Canadian Institutions and the Arts before the Massey Commission 1990 By a Lady Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women 1992 Between Two Cultures A Photographer among the Inuit 1994 Becoming Myself A Memoir 1996 Stormy Weather F H Varley A Biography 1998 Bill Reid The Making of an Indian 2004 Portrait in Light and Shadow The Life of Yousuf Karsh 2007 Eating Bitter A Chinese American Saga 2010 Made in British Columbia Eight Ways of Making Culture 2015 Sculpture in Canada A History 2017 Sculpture and its Relation to Writing Music Photography and Modernism editor 2020 Art for Art s Sake 2022 Canadian Art Matters New Ways of Seeing forthcoming Papers edit Selected List A Life in History From Making Culture to Making Cultural History Canadian Historical Review March Vol 99 No 1 2018 Jeffrey Rubinoff and Canada James Fox ed The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff Vancouver Douglas amp McIntyre 2016 Art Made for Strangers Re Thinking Inuit Art Sir Roy Calne and William O Reilly eds Scepticism New York Nova Publishers 2012 Canadian Culture Irvin Stubin ed What is a Canadian Toronto McClelland and Stewart 2006 Expressing Identity Beaver Magazine Vol 86 No 1 2000 Cultural History A Subject in Search of a Agenda Canadian Historical Review Volume 5 No 3 1994 Canadian Art and the Great War Franz K Stanzel ed Intimate Enemies English German literary reactions to the Great War Heidelberg Universitat verlag C Winter 1993 Sea and Art L D McCann ed The Sea and Culture of Atlantic Canada Sackville Mount Allison University 1992 The Origins of the Canada Council the most generous sugar daddy art has ever known in Peter Easingwood et al Probing Canadian Culture Augsburg A V Verlag 1991 Emily Carr Michael Toobey ed True North Canadian Landscape Painting 1896 1939 London Barbican Art Gallery 1991 Canadian Art and Propaganda During the Great War Canadian High Commission London pamphlet 1989 The Making of English Canadian Culture 1900 1939 the external influences pamphlet York University 1988 The writing of English Canadian cultural history 1970 85 The Canadian Historical Review Volume 67 Issue 4 1986 Exhibitions curated with catalogue edit Selected List Contemporaries of Emily Carr Simon Fraser University Art Gallery 1974 Ingeborg Mohr selected works Simon Fraer University Art Gallery 1983 Lest We Forget London Regional Art Gallery 1989 Charles Gimpel photographer of Arctic Canada and Collector of Inuit Art National Library Luxembourg 1995 Marcel Barbeau Churchill College Art Gallery 2000 Awards and honours editButler Book Prize 2018 short listed Sculpture in Canada a history Melva J Dwyer Award 2018 short listed Sculpture in Canada a history Hubert Evans non fiction Prize 2016 short listed Made in British Columbia Eight Ways of Making Culture Basil Stuart Stubbs Book Prize short listed 2016 Made in British Columbia Eight Ways of Making Culture Canadian non fiction Award short listed 2007 Portrait in Light and Shadow The Life of Yousuf Karsh Dafoe Book Prize short listed 2008 Portrait in Light and Shadow The Life of Yousuf Karsh Honorary doctorate Simon Fraser University 2006 Honorary doctorate University of Victoria 2006 Hubert Evans non fiction Prize 2004 Bill Reid the making of an Indian Honorary L L D Windsor University 1994 BC Book Prize short listed 1993 By a Lady Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women Van City Book Prize short listed 1993 By a Lady Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women Canada 125 Medal 1992 elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 3 in 1992 Canadian Studies Writing Award 1982 Governor General s Award for non fiction 1979 Emily Carr a biography John A Macdonald History Prize 1979 Emily Carr a biography Garneau Medal short listed 1980 Emily Carr a biography Eaton s BC Book Award now the BC and Yukon Book Prize 1978 From Desolation to Splendour changing perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape 3 References edit Charlotte Gray An Author Discovers Herself Maria Tippett Becoming Myself A Memoir by Maria Tippett Stoddart Toronto Star 30 November 1996 a b c Hard work wins respect archive is 28 June 2013 Archived from the original on 28 June 2013 Retrieved 16 February 2019 a b c d e f g h Canadian Who s Who 2012 2013 Volume XLVII Third Sector Publishing Orillia Ontario Distributed by University of Toronto Press Recipients PDF www uwindsor ca U of Windsor Retrieved 27 September 2023 Recipients www uvic ca uvic Retrieved 27 September 2023 Recipients www sfu ca SFU Retrieved 27 September 2023 Retrieved from 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