Caption
Probably nowhere in Canada is there a greater collection of sculpture in any one sculptor's studio than in the little church inhabited by Frances Loring. There is scarcely a nook or corner where some work of art, either completed or in process of completion, does not reside. As the trend in Canadian architecture is for architects to incorporate more bas relief designs and other forms of sculpture into their plans for new public buildings, Frances Loring faces a busy time in the years ahead. Above, she is working on a life size statue of an Eskimo mother and child.
Release Date
May 12, 1959
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
Lunney, GarCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Your hands are your best tools, says Miss Loring as she thumbs away at one of her recent works. Among her better known busts are those of Sir Frederic Banting and Dr. C. Best, co-discoverers of insulin.
Date
March 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88100
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176977
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
For many years Frances Loring has made her home and studio in an old converted church whose high-ceilinged rafters provide ample room for the heroic scale monuments which she enjoys working on. She has created stirring war memorials for Canada's dead in two world wars.
Date
March 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88103
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176978
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
For more than 30 years Frances Loring has been one of the outstanding figures in the small but growing circle of Canadian sculptors. Born at Wardner, Idaho, in 1887, Miss Loring came to Canada in 1912 and has made her home in Toronto, Ont., ever since. In 1928 she helped to form the Sculptors Society of Canada, and in a struggling young nation, where the way of the artist has not always been easy, Frances Loring has worked with courage and vision to help build those artistic traditions, and especially an interest in sculpture, which would give the vigorous young country of her adoption both a sense of history and an awakening sense of its own destiny. Today, at 72, the Grand Dame of Canadian Sculpture is at the peak of her powers and in recent years she has received a wide variety of honours from distinguished universities for her long and devoted service to the arts in Canada.
Date
March 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88109
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176979
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
With a neighbour (centre) and artist Florence Wyle, Miss Loring takes a few minutes off from her work for a morning cup of coffee. Recently she and Miss Wyle have collaborated on a series of decorative panels illustrating Canadian bird life for the park at Niagara Falls.
Date
March 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB88111
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176980
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #209: Sculptor Frances Loring: Art on a Grand Scale
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
May 12, 1959
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Probably nowhere in Canada is there a greater collection of sculpture in any one sculptor's studio than in the little church inhabited by Frances Loring. There is scarcely a nook or corner where some work of art, either completed or in process of completion, does not reside. As the trend in Canadian architecture is for architects to incorporate more bas relief designs and other forms of sculpture into their plans for new public buildings, Frances Loring faces a busy time in the years ahead. Above, she is working on a life size statue of an Eskimo mother and child.
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