Research

Research on Kilpin, and his work in relation to the broader context of art history, was undertaken as a component of the Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) program between 2001 and 2003. The CURA program encouraged partnerships between Univeristy of Victoria faculty and students, and community museums and art galleries in British Columbia. Focusing on interesting collections, the project helped to enrich community collections by adding to our knowledge about them. The following essays were prepared by students and faculty as part of the project. A catalogue is also available, and can be obtained through contacting salishan Place by the River. Funding for CURA was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Essays may be downloaded for personal and research use only. Click below to open an essay:

• Kilpin Portraits
• Kilpin Training
• Kilpin Printmaking
• Kilpin Landscapes
• Kilpin Symbolist Works

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Kilpin catalogue

Winters, Barbara, ed. Legh Mulhall Kilpin Teacher Painter Printmaker Langley: Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre, 2004. 80 pp, 30 colour plates. ISBN 0-9683675-3. $19.95 + GST.

A joint project with the Community University Research Alliance (University of Victoria), this 80-page publication, edited by art historian Barbara Winters, contains essays by Geoffray Carr, Sonia Lochner, Tusa Shea and Barbara Winters. It explores the various aspects of Kilpin`s career, his training, his artistic practice and his teaching in early 20^th century Montreal, and places his work in the cultural and artistic context of his time. Most of the works illustrated and discussed in the publication are in the collection of salishan Place by the River.