FENNER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-24 published
GRACE,
Dorothy
Kathleen (née
GEORGE) 1909-2003
At Cobourg on February 20, 2003. Predeceased by her husband John
A. GRACE, Q.C, her parents Abel and Martha
(McCONNELL)
GEORGE,
her brother William, all of Ottawa. Happy memories of Dorothy
will be cherished by her daughter Patricia and her husband Bob
FENNER of Cobourg and by her granddaughters Louisa (Paul
SAWA)
of Halifax, Kate of Brooklyn, New York and Susannah (Graham
SHAW)
of Toronto. Luke
SAWA and Ethan
SHAW have missed a wonderful
great-grandmother. Friends May call at the Trull 'North Toronto'
Funeral Home and Cremation Centre 2704 Yonge Street (5 blocks south
of Lawrence) on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial
will be celebrated at Our Lady of Assumption Church (Bathurst,
north of Eglinton) on Tuesday Morning at 10 o'clock. Cremation
to follow. If desired, remembrances may be made to the Big Sisters
association of Ontario 2750 Dufferin Street, Toronto, M6B 3R4.
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FENTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-22 published
DE CASTRO,
Mhairi
Angela McLeod (née
FENTON-
McEUEN)
November 30, 1918 - March 19, 2003 Mhairi lived in Ste-Agathe,
Quebec with her parents until she was five, when her mother died.
Her uncle and aunt in Scotland, Dr. and Mrs. Stuart
McEUEN, took
her back with them to St. Andrews, Fife. On the death of her
grandfather Dr.
HUNTINGTON in St. Andrews, the McEuens returned
to Quebec, Montreal, and Lac Ouimet in the Mont Tremlant area.
Mhairi was educated in Montreal and Ottawa, where she was a pupil
at Elmwood School for a while before finishing her education
at a private school in Scotland. She left the United Kingdom
at the outbreak of World War 2, but not before having an adventure
in France driving ambulances. In 1937 Mhairi accompanied the
McEUENs to the Canadian Arctic. Her uncle was conducting research
into the health of the Native people in that area. During World
War 2 Mhairi spent much of her time helping her aunt, Dolly
McEUEN,
run the Ajax Club for British sailors in Halifax. Many comforts,
and brief holiday respites were made available to the sailors
in private homes. As well, the club provided a place to go when
they had leave from their duties on board ship. After the war
the success of this venture produced enough funds to create fifteen
scholarships for young men from the United Kingdom These young
men were unable to attend university because of their service
in the navy during the war. Now, the McEuen Scholarship would
provide them with an opportunity to continue their education
at McGill University. The
McEUENs knew all these scholars well,
meeting them at the dock when they first set foot in Canada.
For many of them the
McEUEN
House became a home away from home.
After the war Mhairi lived at 'Ottir', the house the
McEUENs
built on the side of a mountain overlooking Lac Ouimet, Quebec,
until the late sixties when she and her aunt moved to Ottawa.
Mhairi married her beloved Henry DE
CASTRO in 1976, he died in
1989. Mhairi and her aunt created another scholarship for a Canadian
to attend St. Andrews University in Fife, Scotland, and this
will continue indefinitely. She cared a lot about these students
and loved to hear from them, their progress and successes while
at university and afterwards. Mhairi also maintained her interest
in the Fraser Highlanders of which she was a member. Mhairi will
be remembered for her generosity in providing donations of Canadian
artifacts to Government House and to the Museum of Civilization
in Ottawa, as well as to the Louisburg Fortress and Maritime
Museum of the Atlantic in Nova Scotia. Over the last years after
Alzheimer Disease took away the life she loved, Mhairi has been
cared for by Luci
PEREIRA, her employee, friend, and loving caregiver,
since the seventies. Luci headed the team charged with attending
Mhairi, and deserves our thanks and praise for her devotion.
Also appreciated is the compassion and nurturing of the nurses,
staff, and doctors in the Villa Marguerite. The Funeral Service
will be held at St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church, 125 Mackay
Street, Ottawa, Ontario on Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 11 a.m.
Arrangements in care of the Central Chapel of Hulse, Playfair
& McGarry, Ottawa. In lieu of flowers we request that you may
think of making a donation to the Villa Marguerite or the McEuen
Scholarship Foundation.
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FENTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-04 published
Artist and portraitist refused to compromise
Works in his trademark use of colour hang in the Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and in private collections
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, September
4, 2003 - Page R9
When the director of the University of Toronto's Hart House Gallery
needed a portrait of Hart House warden Dr. Jean
LENGELLÉ, she
called artist Gerald
SCOTT.
"In this case, Gerry was a perfect fit for Jean, because Jean
wanted something that was not staid and traditional, which is
certainly Gerry," said the director, Judi
SCHWARTZ.
"He [Dr. LENGELLÉ] liked the patterning approach that Gerry took,
and the two of them got along very well."
Mr. SCOTT painted the 1977
LENGELLÉ portrait and countless others
in the manner of his friend and mentor, Group of Seven artist Fred
VARLEY.
"Gerry placed colours together that you wouldn't think of, and
when you stand back from the painting, you get the effect of
the work, and when you get closer to it, you start to notice
the colours," Ms.
SCHWARTZ said of the
LENGELLÉ portrait.
One of the foremost Canadian portrait painters, whose works hung
in the inaugural exhibition of Toronto's prominent Greenwich
Gallery along with those of Michael Snow, Graham Coughtry and
William Ronald and are found in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto's
Mount
Sinai
Hospital and numerous private collections, Mr.
SCOTT
died of cancer at the age of 76. Along with Dr.
LENGELLÉ,
Mr.
SCOTT's subjects included a Bermudan prime minister and a Baroness
Rothschild. One of six children, whose father worked as a building
engineer and car salesman, Gerald William
SCOTT was born in Saint
John. Although his birth certificate reads September 30, 1926,
Mr. SCOTT always said it was wrong and he was born in 1925. To
help support his family during the Depression, Mr.
SCOTT danced
on the city's docks, missing school to do so. After service in
the Canadian army during the Second World War, he returned to
Toronto where his family had settled.
There he met and married the Italian countess Josephine Maria
INVIDIATTA. An
English teacher who recognized her husband's gifts,
she taught Mr.
SCOTT to read. Thereafter, he read incessantly,
devouring all types of material. Countess
INVIDIATTA also encouraged
Mr. SCOTT to attend the Ontario College of Art, now named the
Ontario College of Art and Design.
Graduating from the college in 1949, Mr.
SCOTT won the Reeves
Award for all-round technical proficiency in drawing and painting.
After a short career in advertising and turning down an opportunity
to do a cover for Time magazine, he focused on fine art.
Mr. SCOTT taught at his alma mater part-time from 1952 to 1958
and full-time for a period beginning in 1963. And he participated
in shows at both The Roberts Gallery and The Greenwich Gallery,
later renamed The Isaacs Gallery.
While other artistic styles, such as abstract expressionism came
and went, Mr.
SCOTT continued with portraiture. "He didn't want
to compromise his style," said his son Paul
SCOTT. "He didn't
follow trends."
Lacking the time to develop a body of work for a show, and with
a self-effacing temperament which disliked the gallery scene,
by the mid-eighties Mr.
SCOTT no longer exhibited his work, sticking
to commissions and teaching, and writing plays and poetry.
Teaching took up much of Mr.
SCOTT's time, and he was known as
a good one. For 25 years, he taught at the Three Schools of Art
and later at the Forest Hill Art Club, both in Toronto.
"He was an inspirational teacher," said Michael
GERRY, a student
of Mr. SCOTT for six years and now an instructor at Central Technical
High School in Toronto.
"He was one of the few people around who understands the vocabulary.
He really knew his lessons. Not only was he skillful, he was
thoughtful, unusually thoughtful. Colour and temperature were
his specialty."
Said his friend and fellow artist Telford
FENTON, "He had wonderful
use of colour. It spoke to you."
A deliberate, patient and methodical instructor, popular with
Rosedale matrons, Mr.
SCOTT taught his students to observe colour.
"He could see colour everywhere," said Joan
CONOVER, who served
as a portrait model for Mr.
SCOTT. 'They're [the colours] there,
Joanie,' he would say to me. 'All you have to do is stop looking.
Close your eyes and then open them, very quickly. Close them,
open them again, and you'll get a brief glimpse [of the colours].'"
Mr. SCOTT also demonstrated painting for his students. "Most
teachers would not demonstrate," said another
SCOTT student Roger
BABCOCK. "
His demonstrations were like a Polaroid picture. They
would form before your eyes."
When students complained of lack of subjects, Mr.
SCOTT told
them how he stayed up nights painting works of his hand.
As he taught, Mr.
SCOTT discussed the Bible, religion or politics.
But he would not discuss his war experiences, according to Ms.
CONOVER. "It made his stomach hurt," she said.
Mr. SCOTT used his right thumb for certain strokes, and was highly
critical of his work, only signing it with persuasion.
Good
Friends since the fifties with Mr.
FENTON, the pair was
known as the Laurel and Hardy of the art world.
Once, they sold the same painting to three different clients,
eventually making good to all three. Another time while sailing,
Mr. SCOTT's boat crashed into the dock of the Royal Canadian
Yacht
Club.
Always charming Mr.
SCOTT ended up in the club's
bar, along with those of his party, treated to a round of drinks.
Mr. SCOTT continued working until he suffered a heart attack
three years ago.
He died on July 13 and leaves his partner Joyce, two ex-wives,
children Paul, Sarah, Hannah, Rebecca, Aaron, Amelia Jordan,
Jarod and Dana, and five grandchildren. His first wife, Josephine,
and a son, Simon, predeceased him.
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