SFU AtoM

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing the arm of “Allies’ Food Commission” stopping a bandit aiming a gun labelled “high prices” at a woman and her savings.

Innes, John Clarke

“Twisting the lion’s tail”

MsC-144-0-2-0-0-0-11
Item
1914

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a colour cartoon by Innes showing an “American demagogue” grabbing the tail of a large British lion.

Innes, John Clarke

“The practical view of it”

MsC-144-0-2-0-0-0-14
Item
[1917?]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a cartoon by Innes showing a soldier confronting a man labelled “Bagdad” with the caption “Tommy Atkins (& Harim el Raschid, Bagdad): “‘Arim, old sport. You’re bloomin well pinched!”

Innes, John Clarke

[Christmas card illustrated by Innes]

MsC-144-0-2-0-0-0-18
Item
1937

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a Christmas card illustrated with an image of a cowboy riding in the snow, inscribed “To Douglas & Mrs. Lane & the boys. Every happiness, this Christmas season of 1937. John & Ida Innes.” There is a metal emblem attached to the card.

Innes, John Clarke

“Half a Century of Progress” [colour sketch]

MsC-144-0-2-0-0-0-20
Item
[1940?]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a pen and ink sketch by Innes of small houses and forest with a cityscape in the background. The sketch is mounted on paper with an attached overleaf.

Innes, John Clarke

Publications

MsC-144-0-3
Series
1900-[ca. 1934]

Part of John Innes fonds

Series consists of publications by Innes as well as publications containing his work. Records include a chapbook of poetry written and illustrated by Innes, an issue of The Canadian Magazine containing an article by Innes, newspaper clippings, and layout materials for a short story.

Innes, John Clarke

“The Striker”

MsC-144-0-3-0-0-0-2
Item
[1907]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a card with a title panel, “The Striker by John Innes. Illustrations by the author,” and an illustration by Innes captioned “The strike is hon.” The short story “The Striker” appeared in The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXX, no. 2 (December, 1907).

Innes, John Clarke

[Photograph of Innes walking with another man]

MsC-144-0-4-0-0-0-3
Item
[193-?]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a photograph of Innes walking on a sidewalk next to another man. Inscribed on the back by Innes’ wife Ida is “Look how they starved John Innes - bowed his head and broke his heart.”

Innes, John Clarke

John Innes : Painter of the Canadian West / John Bruce Cowan (Vancouver : Rose, Cowan & Latta Ltd., 1945)

MsC-144-0-6-0-0-3
File
1945

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a book about Innes and his work.

Innes, John Clarke

Stampede of Cattle

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-2
Item
[190-?]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting.

Innes, John Clarke

[Page with 3 pencil sketches]

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-17
Item
[192-?]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a sheet with 3 small pencil sketches. One shows oxen and the other two are rough layout sketches showing trees and mountains with oxen or horses in the foreground.

Innes, John Clarke

“Is Creator of Noted Picture”

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-19
Item
[1923]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a newspaper clipping from The Vancouver Sun featuring a photograph of John Innes and a description of his painting “Harding in Canada.”

Innes, John Clarke

Reproductions of Epoch Making Incidents in the Early History of British Columbia

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-22
Item
1927, 1928

Part of John Innes fonds

File consists of an illustrated pamphlet describing a collection of 8 Innes paintings on loan to the University of British Columbia, as well as an affidavit by Innes regarding the status of these paintings.

Innes, John Clarke

George D. Innes Notes D’ly Representing John Innes

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-28
Item
1935

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a notebook tracking discussions and sales of John Innes paintings, as well as strategies for finding prospective buyers.

Innes, John Clarke

Announcing “From Trail to Rail” The Epic of Transportation : A Story of Great Vision, Heroic Enterprise and Splendid Achievement. Told in Twenty-one Oil Paintings By John Innes

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-30
Item
[1936]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a program for an exhibit of Innes’ paintings held at David Spencer Limited department store in Vancouver.

Innes, John Clarke

[Photograph of “The Builders” painting]

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-31
Item
27 Mar. 1936

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a photograph of Innes’ painting “The Builders,” inscribed on the back “To dear Hoppie from Daddy, being a print of the First City Council of Vancouver - with the Civic officials - meeting in June 1886. With love of Ida May Innes my dear wife. John Innes.”

Innes, John Clarke

Cowboy Race

MsC-144-0-1-0-0-0-32
Item
9 Jan. 1943

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a postcard featuring an image of a John Innes painting, addressed to Mrs. M. Akiyama from Mrs. Innes.

Innes, John Clarke

[Pen and watercolour sketch of canoe]

MsC-144-0-2-0-0-0-3
Item
[between 1880 and 1941]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a pen and watercolour sketch of a First Nations canoe being paddled by two people.

Innes, John Clarke

“Half a Century of Progress” [pencil sketch]

MsC-144-0-2-0-0-0-19
Item
[1940?]

Part of John Innes fonds

Item is a pencil sketch by Innes of a figure sitting next to 2 totem poles with a cityscape in the background. There are notes in the margin about the composition from Innes as well as “George.”

Innes, John Clarke

Patent

MsC-144-0-5
Series
1 Feb. 1919

Part of John Innes fonds

Series consists of a patent agreement filed by Innes and John Linkison King in New York City, for a device to be used in the navigation of ships and airplanes.

Innes, John Clarke

John Innes fonds

MsC-144
Fonds
[after 1880]-1945

The fonds consists of records relating primarily to Innes’ drawing, painting, and writing. Records include original cartoons, publications containing Innes’ work, a chapbook, exhibit programs and reviews, and images of Innes’ paintings, as well as photographs of Innes, biographical material, and a patent agreement.

The fonds has been arranged into six series: Records relating to Innes’ paintings ([190-?]-1943); Illustrations and cartoons ([between 1880 and 1941]); Publications (1900-[ca. 1934]); Photographs of Innes ([192-?-193-?]); Patent (1 Feb. 1919); and Records relating to Innes created after his death ([1941]-1945).

Innes, John Clarke

Roping