Illuminated Addresses to Archbishop John Walsh
Description
- Creator
- Alfred Harold Howard, Artist
- Media Type
- Group
- Image
- Item Type
- Documents
- Description
- This group contains illuminated addresses created by hand by British-Canadian artist Alfred Harold Howard'
The addresses were presented to Archbishop John Walsh (1889-1898), on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of his Episcopal Ordination.
The first set of Addresses are from the Catholic Clergy of Toronto.
The second set are from the Catholic Laity of Toronto. - Notes
- Alfred Harold Howard (1854–1916) was a British Canadian graphic artist, calligrapher and decorative designer in Toronto in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born in Liverpool, England, he apprenticed as a lithographer with the Liverpool branch of the firm Maclure, Macdonald and Macgregor. In 1876 he immigrated to Canada and eventually opened an office of graphic design in the Temple Building in downtown Toronto. He received the Marquess of Lorne’s Medal for Design in 1881 and was made an academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1883.
Howard’s commercial design work took the form of illuminated addresses of welcome, certificates and diplomas and addresses of condolence. In 1891 he produced the City of Toronto address of condolence presented to Lady Macdonald on the death of the Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Howard exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists at their Applied Art Exhibition in 1900 and with the Canadian Society of Applied Art in 1905. He was a member of the Toronto Art Students’ League and the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto.
When he died in Toronto in 1916 (26 February), the Art Museum of Toronto held a memorial exhibition of his work."
Howard’s artworks are in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Toronto Reference Library, the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. - Date of Original
- November 10, 1892
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
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