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Helen MacArthur : oil portrait photograph.

File contains one photograph of an oil portrait of Helen MacArthur, painted by John Herbert. Includes a cardboard frame with the author's note on it: "Photograph of oil portrait of Helen MacArthur, Head of Canadian Red Cross in the Nineteen-Fifties and Sixties, painted in 1964 by John H. Brundage. The painting hangs in School of Nursing of Edmonton, Alberta, willed to the Red Cross by Ms. MacArthur. She had served in Korea in the Nineteen-Fifties." Includes author's note on back of the envelope: "Note: The portrait was completed after 4 sittings at Ms. MacArthur's living room in her apartment on Grenville St. in Toronto in 1964. Over the subject's shoulder is seen the Jade vase, given Helen by Korean friends just before she left Korea, after setting up wartime Red Cross program there. Helen told friends over the last years of her life that the Jade vase and the oil portrait were her most prized possessions. J.H.B." Includes author's note on front of the envelope: "Box D: J.H. archives. D6: photograph of an oil portrait of Helen MacArthur, head of Canadian Red Cross in 1950s and '60s: painted by John Herbert Brundage in 1964. The original (18" x 24") hangs in the School of Nursing, Edmonton, Alberta, willed to her school by Helen MacArthur."

Herbert, John