Name/Title
The Clearihue Building, University of VictoriaEntry/Object ID
2023.10.02Description
Drawing
This work depicts an exterior view of the The Clearihue Building at the University of Victoria (UVic). The image is spare and precise presented like an architectural rendering.
UVic is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, some 7 km north of downtown Victoria, B.C. It is the oldest post-secondary institution in the province, established in 1903 as Victoria College, an affiliated college of Montréal's McGill University. UVic gained full autonomy and degree-granting status in 1963.Artwork Details
Medium
Graphite on paperSubject
The Clearihue Building, University of VictoriaSubject Place
Region
Pacific NorthwestContinent
North AmericaContext
The Clearihue Building is named for Judge Joseph Badenoch Clearihue BA, MA, BCL, LLD (1887-1976), a student in the original Victoria College, class of 1903-1904. He was a chairman of the Victoria College Council (1947-1963), and played a major role in creating the University of Victoria, of which he became the first chancellor (1963-1966).
The building is the oldest academic building on campus, built in 1962, with added extensions in 1971, 1976 and 1979. The architect of the original building was Wade Stockdill & Armour with additions by Wagg & Hableton. In 2013, the building underwent a $15 million redevelopment. Recognized across campus for its clock tower, the Clearihue clock is notoriously stuck at 1:55.
"A pillared ground floor supported the classroom floors above but allowed for circulation on the main floor to communicate directly with the landscape on both sides. The end stairwells feature stable/mobile sculptures by artist Bill West [1921-2007]...The first permanent new structure on the Gordon Head Campus, this three-storey reinforced concrete building was designed as a general-purpose classroom block. Its original exterior was exposed concrete and pre-cast concrete panels that were finished with marble aggregate set in coloured cement..."
- Information from University of Victoria. See Weblinks below
For further information see -
Martin Segger, Victoria Modern 3: The Emergence of Architectural Modernism II; UVic and the Victoria Regional Aesthetic in the Late 1950s and 1960s (Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria,2011), available in the UCBC Library.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Edward Goodall (1909-1982)Role
ArtistDate made
1967Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Somerset, England, Edward Goodall was a Canadian artist known for his meticulous drawings, and later his paintings of Vancouver Island, B.C. and beyond. With a natural talent, he came from a family of successful artists (great grandfather, grandfather and more), and he studied art in Wales under the guidance of art master Marcus Holmes (1875-1951) of the Herkomer school. He then traveled, working on a tea plantation in India, later on to China and Japan, and then to Canada earning money for his trips by selling his drawings. He worked at many jobs, cutting ice blocks in Alberta, working on a cattle drive and in Victoria selling stocks and bonds. When World War II broke out, Goodall enlisted with the Royal Canadian Engineers. His art career really started after his discharge from the army, and his purchase of a house in Oak Bay, Victoria with a home studio.
In 1942 he applied for the copyright to “Goodall’s Pencil Postcard Series” and began drawing scenes of Vancouver Island creating more than 500 scenes for postcards. Through the 1950s he drew a series of west coast scenes for a British Columbia calendar, turning to painting later that decade. Other commercial commissions followed, including the Powell River pulp mill, Canadian Pacific Railway ships, the Kitimat smelter, a series on education facilities in Canada, and scenes for British Columbia’s 1958 centennial celebrations. As a member of the Alpine Club of Canada he climbed many mountains and turned his watercolours and sketches into calendars. By the 1960s he started to paint large watercolours on commission, and by the 1970s he was well known. He painted people’s homes, did personal Christmas cards for the Premier, Lieutenant-Governor, and others and also selling his photographs. Goodall rarely exhibited in galleries due to the nature of his production work, but in the early 1980s he had a solo gallery show in Victoria, selling out in an hour. Goodall was a member of the Island Arts and Crafts Society and later the Victoria Sketch Club.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Title, Signature, DateLocation
To be confirmed -
Lower right:
The The Clearihue Building, University of Victoria
Edward Goodall 1967Dimensions
Dimension Description
SupportHeight
33 cmWidth
36.2 cmAcquisition
Acquisition Method
GiftDate
Oct 15, 2023Notes
Donated by the family of Dr. Joyce Clearihue (1927-2023) in her memory