Series contains published and textual materials including one published book written and illustrated by Selwyn Dewdney, an art exhibition catalogue, and an art exhibition pamphlet. The exhibition catalogue for “Signed and Dated” describes the three artists whose works were featured (Selwyn Dewdney, Clare Bice and Jim Kemp) as being moving forces in the London, Ontario art scene in the 1950s and 1960s. The catalogue details Bice, Kemp and Dewdney’s roles as active members of the Western Art League and their contributions to the London art scene including Bice’s thirty-two year tenure as curator at the London Public Library and Art Museum. The exhibition pamphlet is related to Selwyn and Irene Dewdney’s research in the field of art therapy, their collaborative artistic practices, and their collection of artworks related to art therapy.

Series primarily contains professional and personal correspondence to and from Selwyn Dewdney. The files include business correspondence related to Dewdney’s position as a teacher, artist and illustrator, as well as an author. Other types of correspondence consist of holiday cards, invitations to events, and a postcard. Also included are mailing lists containing business cards. Additionally, the series includes invoices, mortgage information, notes, a pencil drawing and 2 b&w photographs. The majority of the files are located in Box 3, and are organized in no discernable order. See Series 1 for correspondence related to Dewdney’s written works.

Series contains textual files related to Dewdney’s teaching career in the Department of Liberal Arts Studies at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Files include outlines for courses taught by Dewdney, department timetables, notes on assignments issued, session outlines for material covered during his courses, and an outline for a course taught by Jane Castel titled “Canadian Art History” for which he was a guest lecturer. Content covered includes “the wide range of Aboriginal cultures and languages in Canada”, the prehistoric art of five continents, pictography as communication, Norval Morriesseau and the Woodlands school, shield rock paintings, rock art and petroglyphs throughout Canada.

Series consists of materials related to Dewdney’s undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, including essays, notebooks and lab books. Also includes one copy of University of Toronto’s May 1932 Cap and Gown magazine, scripts from plays, sonnets and doodles, as well as the minutes of a student group called “The Three Musketeers”. Essays are in no discernable order, notebooks ordered by subject/course.

Series documents the activities that were taken during the hosting of the UCM’s annual convention. Administrative files contain records spanning many years. The series includes a scrapbook, the attendance log for the annual conventions, an account book, and a folder holding UCM journals, interim report, convention programs, memos, publicity, petition to the House of Commons, bulletins, memorials and newspaper clippings. The series is arranged chronologically.

Series contains UCM publications for their annual conventions from 1901-1919. These publications were programmes of their annual conventions and included articles discussing the activities and achievements of the year. The series is arranged chronologically and includes duplicates.

Series documents the administrative and financial activities of the UCM from 1901-1919. Chronological files include a constitution, meeting minutes, correspondences, memorandums, convention publications, circulars, cheques and invoices, and financial reports. The series is organized and arranged chronologically, with each file contains records documenting the activities of the UCM of a particular year.

The series consists of 121 watercolour paintings of birds, created by Elizabeth Gwillim while she was living in Chennai, India (then Madras). The birds were painted from life rather than from the skins or stuffed specimens used by many artists of her day. Many paintings feature their avian subjects within a full landscape. Some paintings contain inscriptions with species identifications and, occasionally, additional observations about the birds.

Series consists of 12 watercolour paintings of flowers by Elizabeth Gwillim, created while Gwillim was living in Chennai, India (then Madras). The paintings are preceded by pages of brief notes by Casey A. Wood. The flowers are identified by small caption titles written in pencil on each painting.

Series consists of four contains of audio-visual materials and microfilms. here are four boxes. The first container contains microfilm and audiocassettes, for which a full list of items descriptions is found. The second container contains unsorted and uncounted personal photographs of Edel and his friends. The third container contains design and layout materials for some of Edel’s books. The fourth container contains oversized materials from other series.