Maria Tippett

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 David Ho, Canadian war art from World War I, as well as landscape paintings of British Columbia. 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

Raised in Victoria, 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 master's degree from Cambridge University and a doctorate in history from the University of London.[2]

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

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[3]

After her experience in Cambridge, Tippett returned to Canada and was an associate research professor at Simon Fraser University where she continued to work 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 1989, Tippett was a guest curator at the London Regional Art Gallery in London Ontario, and in 1992 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3] She has received honorary doctorates from Windsor University in 1994, and from the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University in 2006.[3]In May 2014,Maria Tippett was inducted into 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 both the Clare Hall, Cambridge Art Gallery and the Churchill College, Cambridge Art Gallery (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 TV Ontario, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1998, Tippett was appointed to The Canadian Memorial Foundation, Canada House 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 2015, she was a member of the Craigdarroch Research Awards Committee at the University of Victoria and is currently a member of the Dean of Fine and Performing Arts' Advisory Committee at the same institution.

Works

Books

  • From Desolation to Splendour: Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape (1977) [with Douglas Cole][3]
  • 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) [3]
  • Sculpture in Canada: A History (2017)

Papers

  • "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 edt. The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff, (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2016)
  • "Art Made for Strangers': Re-Thinking Inuit Art" Sir Roy Calne and William O'Reilly edts. Scepticism (New York: Nova Publishers, 2012)
  • "Canadian Culture" Irvin Stubin edt. What is a Canadian? (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2006)
  • "Expressing Identity" Beaver Magazine Vol 86 No 1 (2000)
  • "Going the Wrong Way" Richard Littleham edt. Howe Sounds: facts, fiction and fantasy from the writers of Bowen Island (Bowen Island: Bowen Island Arts Council, 1994)
  • "Cultural History: A Subject in Search of a Agenda" 'Twentieth Century British History' Volume 5 No 3 (1994)
  • "Canadian Art and the Great War" Franz K. Stanzel edt., Intimate Enemies: English-German literary reactions to the Great War (Heidelberg: Universitat verlag C. Winter, 1993)
  • "Sea and Art" L.D. McCann edt. 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 edt. True North: Canadian Landscape Painting 1896–1939 (London: Barbican Art Gallery, 1991)
  • "Biography of John Koerner" Patricia Bovey edt. John Koerner, past/present" (Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 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).
  • "Emily Carr's 'Klee Wyck'." Canadian Literature Volume 72 (1977).
  • "Emily Carr's Forest" Journal of Forest History Volume 18, Issue 4 (1974).
  • "Art in British Columbia – the Historical Sources." BC Studies Volume 23 (1974). [with Douglas Cole]
  • "Pleasing Diversity and Sublime Desolation: The 18th-Century British Perception of the Northwest Coast." The Pacific Northwest Quarterly Volume 65, Issue 1 (1974) [with Douglas Cole]
  • "Who 'Discovered' Emily Carr?" Journal of Canadian Art History Volume 1, Issue 2 (1974)
  • " 'A Paste Solitaire in a Steel Claw Setting': Emily Carr and Her Public." BC Studies Volume 20 (1973)

Exhibition Catalogues

  • Selected List
  • "Contemporaries of Emily Carr" Simon Fraser University Art Gallery (1974)
  • "Lest We Forget" London Regional Art Gallery (1989)
  • "Charles Gimpel, photographer of Arctic Canada and Collector of Inuit Art" National Library, Luxembourg, (1995)

Editor

  • Phillips in Print: The Selected Writings of Walter J. Phillips on Canadian Nature and Art (1977) [with Douglas L. Cole][4]

Awards and honours

  • 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, "Portrail in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh"
  • Hubert Evans non-fiction Prize, 2004, Bill Reid, the making of an Indian
  • 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
  • Garneau Award 1985, short-listed, Emily Carr: a biography
  • 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
  • Eaton's BC Book Award – now the BC Book Prize, 1978, From Desolation to Splendour: changing perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape [3]

Personal life

In 1971, Tippett married Douglas Lowell Cole, a history professor at Simon Fraser University. Together they wrote the 1977 book From Desolation to Splendour, and co-edited an edition of writings by Walter J. Phillips entitled Phillips in Print: The Selected Writings of Walter J. Phillips on Canadian Nature and Art. They divorced in 1983. In 1991 Tippett married the English historian and former Master of Trinity Hall Cambridge University Peter Frederick Clarke. The couple, now writing full-time, divide their time between Pender Island British Columbia and Cambridge, England.

References

  1. ↑ Charlotte Gray. "An Author Discovers Herself Maria Tippett: Becoming Myself, A Memoir by Maria Tippett Stoddart" Toronto Star. 30 November 1996
  2. 1 2 3 "Hard work wins respect". Times Colonist. November 12, 2006
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Canadian Who's Who 2012–2013 Volume XLVII, Third Sector Publishing, Orillia, Ontario, Distributed by University of Toronto Press
  4. ↑ http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/books/mrs06.pdf
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