AR6. PAINTING

Painting: Class Reunion of 1932 Meds.

Description: A light wood-framed photograph of the May 30^th 1954 reunion of Dr. Abram Froese’s class of 1932 from Medical School. Black & white photo. Dr. Froese can easily be seen in the top left-hand corner.

Year: 1954

Date Donated: Oct./05

Donor: Carol Froese

Location: On Display

Accession Number: 005.444.1

Painting: Concept drawing of Leamington Mennonite Home

Description: Framed Concept drawing of the LM Home as designed by architects J.P. Thompson Associates in 1963.  Home built to this design in 1964, and opened 1965. 

Year: 1963

Donation Date: May 24, 1993

Donor: Leamington Mennonite Home

Location: Storage area

Accession Number: 993.47.1

Painting:(Print)"Der Breite Und Schmale Weg"

Description: A framed print, which hung in the Konrad/Wiebe home on Parson Road on Pelee Island. It was the site of Mennonite worship services from the time the Bernard Konrad family moved there in 1929 until their departure for the mainland in 1937, and from 1937, when John G. Wiebe purchased the farm, until July of 1950. The print hung on the south wall of the large front room where the church services were held.

Bernard and Helena Konrad ordered the print from a Mennonite Book source in Winnipeg in the early 1930s. The frame, originally made by Bernard Konrad, was later repaired by son Abram B. Konrad. The Konrad family eventually donated the print to the North Leamington United Mennonite Church where it hung in the senior Sunday School singing room.

Year: 1937

Donation Date: Oct.6 1998

Donor: Abram B. and George Konrad

Location: On Display

Accession Number: 998.127.6

Painting: Doopsgezind Friesland, het Land van Menno Simons (poster)

Description: Picture of monument van de Maand. List on reverse of 1996 Menno Simons 500th Anniversary celebrations (Dutch).

Donation Date: July 24, 1996

Donor: Alfred Willms

Location: On display

Accession Number: 996.42.3

Painting: Early Mennonite home in Manitoba

Description: Print of sketch by Victor Friesen of an early Manitoba Mennonite home.

Donation Date: November 2, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Location: Book shelf

Accession  Number: 993.11.4

Painting: Early Mennonite Church - print of sketch

Description: Victor Friesen sketch of early Mennonite Church building in Manitoba, Canada.

Donation Date: November 22, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Location: book shelves

Accession Number: 993.11.2

Painting: Fall scene

Description: Fall landscape scene by Henry D. Krueger, in gilt frame.

Donation Date: August 13, 1992

Donor: John H. and Helen Dyck

Located: On display

Accession Number: 992.100.1

Painting: Farm in Russia and Manitoba

Description: Print of Victor Friesen sketch; typical farmstead in Russia and later Manitoba.

Donation Date:

Donor: Irma Mathies

Location: book shelves

Accession Number: 993.11.3

Print: Fractur – Ronald J. Ruth

Descrition: 500’th anniversary of Menno Simon’s birth

Donation Date: April 1, 2003

Donor: John Sharp (Goshen)(Mar.23/03)

Location: On display

Accession Number: 003.424.2

Photograph: Heritage Gardens

Description: Photo of the construction of Heritage Gardens and Centre. Abe Klassen worked on the project together with Jake Harder, contractor.

Year:

Date Donated: Dec./06

Donor: Abe & Margaret Klassen

Location: Cabinet C

Accession Number: 006.453.1

Painting: History of the Mennonites

Description: History of the Mennonites "The People of the Book" in five paintings by Henry B. Pauls.

a)   "Our People - the People of the Book."

     From the Netherland-Prussia, to Russia and Canada."

b)   "Für die Ersten - der Tod.

     Für die Zweiten - die Roth.

     Für die Dritten - das Brot." - gothic script

c)     "Gott der Herr nahm den Menschen

     und setzte ihn in den Garten Eden

     das er ihn bebauete und bewahrete.

     Ers. Mose. Kapitel 2, vers 15."

d)     "Selig sind die Barmherzigen,

     denn sie werden Barmherzigkeit erlangen."

     Christmas in Saskatchewan, dust storm in Saskatchewan, North      Ontario bush, Leamington, Ontario.

e)   "Die Buch-Leute/The Book People"

     "At a time when most people could not read

     They studied the Bible.

     They did not destroy, they built.

     Generations come and go - like a long chain.

     Each link - a generation apart - and yet connected."

     "It is good to know - where you come from.

     It is good to know - where you go.

     The Book is there - to help you

     To find for you - the right way."

Prussia "It was water and swamp. They made it a very productive

farmland, fine homes, beautiful gardens."

Russia "The Mennonite villages looked like green gardens in a dry

land, among the very poor, local people."

Canada "With the Bible and a songbook and not much more, they

     came to Canada. We were a people in need - others helped us.

     Now we can help people in need. It is done mostly in MCC

work, Et Cetera Shops, Disaster service."

Painted on plywood.  Includes cards with English translation of inscriptions.

Year: 1989

Donation Date: August 7, 1992

Donor: Henry Pauls

Located: In pine trunk (994.316.13) on display.

Accession Number: 992.82.1a-e

Painting: Island of Chortitza

Description: "Our homeland in Russia" along with story.  Oil painting showing the view of the island from the mainland.  By Henry B. Pauls, with a frame.

Year: 1987

Donation Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Location: On display

Accession Number: 993.46.1

Painting: Mennonite Service- Manitoba prairies.

Description: Framed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls shows Mennonite church service on the Prairies in Manitoba. Part of a set of paintings. Copied from a photo from Frank Leslies Illustrierte Zeitung, ca. 1875.

Year: 1993

Donation Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Location: On display

Accession Number: 993.46.4

Painting: Neuenburg/Mexico church

Description: Framed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls shows the first church in Neuenburg, Mexico, Campo 26.  It was built of wood within a few months of the arrival of the first Mennonites there. Painted from a photograph. Part of a set of paintings.

Year: 1993

Donation Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Location: On display

Accession Number: 993.46.2

Painting: Harbour Scene

Description: Oil painting of the Kingsville dock, depicting a fishing boat and fish nets drying on reels. Painting by Rev. Herman P. Lepp, pastor of the Harrow Mennonite Church.

Donation Date: Nov./05

Donor: Hedy Klassen

Location: On display

Accession Number: 005.81.38

Painting: South American Scene

Description: Oil Painting – by Helene Thiessen (mother of Helmut

Thiessen) of sunset, palm trees, and ocean. Helmut’s parents, Willy & Helen, lived in the Friesland settlement in Paraguay from 1947 until 1952, then moved to Canada.

Date Donation: Jan./04

Donor: Helmut Thiessen

Location: On display

Accession Number: 004.429.1

Painting: Biblical Motto

Description: The verse, in gothic script, was created in charcoal in 1940 by Rudolph Jacob Dyck. It hung at the front of the Essex County United Mennonite Church (Later renamed the Leamington United Mennonite Church) at 78 Oak Street East in Leamington, until the new building was constructed in 1984. The verse is also etched into the concrete wall at the front of the new sanctuary. Copies of the original German verse, as well as an English translation hang in the North Leamington United Mennonite Church.

Translation:

“Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away” Mathew 24:35

      The following information was provided by his brother, Dr. Victor J. Dyck of Leamington, Ontario  

Rudolf Jacob Dyck, 1911-1982, was born in Blumenort, Ukraine in 1911. In 1926, after the Russian Revolution, he, along with his family immigrated to Canada.

     The Dycks lived in the Kitchener-Waterloo area for several years before moving to Essex County during the first years of the Great Depression. Rudy’s creative artistic ability manifested itself during the 1930s and, as a result, he enrolled in correspondence art courses from Switzerland.

     He was active in the local Leamington Mennonite church-especially the choir. Before leaving for Toronto in 1940, he created this German Bible verse in charcoal. It enhanced the pulpit wall of his white frame church on Oak Street in Leamington.

     Rudy pursued his career as artist, which included landscapes, seascapes, portraits and commercial art for many years in Canada and the USA. He died suddenly in 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Year: 1940

Donation Date: May 24, 1993

Donor: Peter Warkentin

Location: On display

Accession Number: 993.48.1

Painting: Prints of Conrad Grebel, Felix Mantz, Georg Blaurock. Description:

a) Grebel, Conrad, (ca. 1498-1526) can be considered the chief founder of Swiss-South German Anabaptism. “---as a result of his own devout reading of the New Testament, we have not only the founder of the Swiss Brethren movement and the later Mennonite Church, but also one of the prophetic spirits of Christiandom in its great and insistent tradition of reform and revival.” (Mennonite Encyclopedia)

b) Manz, Felix, one of the founders and first martyr of the original Swiss Brethren congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, was born about 1498, the son of a Zurich canon, acquired a thorough knowledge of  Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. When Zwingli came to Zürich in 1519, Manz joined him enthusiastically and became a regular attendant at Zwingli’s Bible classes.” (Mennonite Encyclopedia)

c) “Blaurock, Georg, one of the founders of the first Swiss Brethren congregation was born ca.1492---“    “Georg Blaurock was one of the noblest martyrs (1529) of the Christian Church. For the brotherhood he helped found he cheerfully sacrificed everything, honor and respect, freedom and comfort, property and goods, wife and child, body and life for the sake of his Lord and Saviour. Under the sign of adult baptism he gave the brotherhood its actual reason for existence in the world.” (Mennonite Encyclopedia)

Donation Date: September 30, 1996

Donor: Menno Epp

Location: On display

Accession Number: 998.378.13

Painting: Poor Mennonite farm

Description: Unframed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls showing the unlucky, the poor Mennonites in Russia with a small farmstead and only a few acres of land.  Part of a set of paintings.

Year: 1993

Donation Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Location: In pine trunk (994.316.13) on display.

Accession Number: 993.46.6

Painting: Sarai

Description: Print of sketch, by Victor Peters, a sarai used by some of the early settlers in Western Canada.

Donation Date: November 22, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Location: Bookshelves

Accession Number: 993.11.6

Painting: Silkscreen Print of Menno Simon 500

Description: Commissioned by the Mennonite Church in the Netherlands; artist is Aizo Betten of Groningen; colour blue stands for purity and the colour red for warmth that Menno Simons faith propagated.

Donation Date: August 23, 1996

Donor: Betty Janzen Lavooij

Location: On display

Accession Number: 996.376.1

Painting: Old Colony Mennonite School

Description: Framed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls showing the school in Kronsgart, Chihuahua, Mexico.  Part of a set of paintings. Painted from a photograph.

Year: 1993

Donation Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Location: On display

Accession Number: 993.46.3

Painting: Simlin

Description: Print of sketch by Victor Peters of simlin used by early Mennonite settlers.

Donation Date: November 22, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Location: Book shelves

Accession Number: 993.11.5

Painting: Successful Mennonite farm

Description: Framed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls showing a successful Mennonite farm, the rich farm as Johann Cornies' farm was in Russia. Part of a set of paintings.

Year: 1993

Donation Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Location: In pine trunk (994.316.13) on display.

Accession Number: 993.46.5

Painting: Threshing time

Description: Framed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls, showing threshing time in the Old Colony, Ukraine, circa 1910-1916.

Year: 1993

Donation Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Location: On display

Accession Number: 993.46.7

Painting: Mountain Scene

Description: Oil painting by Helen Thiessen (wife of Willy Thiessen, mother of Helmut

Donation Date: Sept./05

Donor: Abram Mathies

Location: Above bookshelves

Accession Number: 005.45.14

Photograph: Leamington & Mersea Historical Society

Description: Photos of awards  banquet in Sept./06

a)  Walter & Hilda Enns, Henry, Helga, & Marvin Dueck,

Eleanor Mathies

      b) Bruno & Freda Penner, Katie & Henry Brown, Bill & Henry

         Neufeld

      c) Walter & Astrid Koop, Harry & Mary Thiessen, John &

         Helga Dick, George & Giesela Schartner

      d) Robert Epp & Herb Enns accepts plaque for Peter & Helen

         Epp

e)  Robert, Allison, Kyle & Debbie Epp display plaque

 f) The plaque, a posthumous award honouring Peter and

Helen (nee Tiessen) Epp for their contribution to the community.

Year: September, 2006

Donation Date: Feb./07

Donor: Karl & Marlene Epp

Location: On display

Accession Number : 007.14.4