From the Author
I would like to thank Katerina Atanassova, Laine Gabel, and Isabel Luce for their intrepid research assistance and the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University for research funding. At the McCord Museum, Nora Hague was generous with her unparalleled knowledge of the collection. Finally, many of the questions explored here were first floated in the Toronto Photography Seminar, and I want to thank my fellow members for a decade of challenging conversations and inspiring collaboration.
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Credit for Cover Image
William Notman, Caribou Hunting, The Chance Shot, Montreal, 1866. (See below for details.)
Key Works: William Notman, Skating Carnival, Victoria Rink, Montreal, 1870. (See below for details.)
Significance & Critical Issues: William Notman, Chaudière Falls, Ottawa, 1870. (See below for details.)
Style & Technique: William Notman, Around the Camp Fire, Caribou Hunting series, Montreal, 1866. (See below for details.)
Sources & Resources: Attributed to William Notman, Still Life with Books, 1870s–80s, albumen silver print from glass negative,
16.8 x 21.6 cm (image); 20.3 x 24.1 cm (mount). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2005, 2005.100.564.
Where to See: Miss H. Frothingham, Montreal, 1871. (See below for details.)
Credits for Photographs and Work by Other Artists/Institutions
The Art Association Conversazione on the Evening of February 15 (The Vice-Regal Visit to Montreal), February 23, 1878, artist unknown. Library and Archives Canada. Pagination: Vol. XVII, no. 8, 121, Subject: Montréal (Quebec), Art Association of Montreal, Record: 3422. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases.
Back of a Notman carte-de-visite, Halifax, 1876. Private collection.
Front of a Notman carte-de-visite, Halifax, 1876. Private collection.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Parsons, Sarah (Sarah Caitlin), 1971-, author
William Notman : life & work / Sarah Parsons.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Biography — Key works — Significance & critical
issues — Style & technique — Where to see — Notes —
Glossary — Sources & resources — About the author —
Credits.
Electronic monograph.
ISBN 978-1-4871-0010-0 (pdf).—ISBN 978-1-4871-0012-4 (epub)
1. Notman, William, 1826-1891. 2. Notman, William, 1826-1891—
Criticism and interpretation. 3. Photographers—Canada—Biography.
4. Businessmen—Canada—Biography. I. Art Canada Institute. issuing
body II. Title.
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