Jo Manning – CCCA Canadian Art Database

Jo Manning

Joanne Elizabeth Manning was a Canadian etcher, painter and author. Manning studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and graduated in 1945. She married, and became known as Jo Rothfels. Manning returned to the OCA in 1960 to study printmaking as a special student. She took up etching in 1962. After a divorce in 1971 she reverted to her maiden name. In 1971 she studied process camera techniques and color separation at George Brown College, Toronto. Manning taught in a mobile printmaking workshop between 1965 and 1970 for a community program of the Ontario Department of Education. She taught or ran workshops at Centennial College (1967–71) and Sheridan College (1971-74), and in the summer at Hockley Valley School of Art (1970–74), Elliot Lake (1970–72), University of Toronto (1975) and various other places. She became an executive member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art and a member of the Canadian Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. The two organizations merged in 1976 to form the Print and Drawing Council of Canada. Jo Manning was a founding member of the new Council. Around 1980 she became ill from exposure to chemicals and moved away from etching into ink drawing and oil and watercolor painting. After many years of creating works in different media, culminating in watercolour and graphite grasses and black ink tree trunks as detailed as her early etchings, Manning turned to writing, to document both the early print world in Canada, and her own personal journey as a woman artist. Her first book, A Printmaker's Memoir: A Personal History of an Era, was published in 2009. Manning chronicles "the past seventy years of printmaking in Canada" through the eyes of a young woman trying to find her place in the Canadian art world as a skilled artist and printmaker.

Creator Id: 397
Web Site Link: Web Site Link
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: British Columbia
Year of Birth: 1923
City: Victoria
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: drawing, painting, printmaking
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Work by Jo Manning

Empty Shirt 2

Work ID: 60949

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Date Made: 1967

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

B

Work ID: 60947

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Date Made: 1968

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Image 6

Work ID: 60957

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Date Made: 1973

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Prairie 1

Work ID: 60964

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Date Made: 1974

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Portrait of my Mother

Work ID: 60966

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Date Made: 1976

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Woodlot VIII

Work ID: 60960

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Date Made: 1979

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Woodlot VII

Work ID: 60961

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Date Made: 1979

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Woodlot X

Work ID: 60959

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Date Made: 1979

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Woodlot XIV

Work ID: 60965

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Date Made: 1980

Materials: etching on BFK Rives

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Shirt and Red Rag

Work ID: 60963

Measurements: 91.44 x 60.96 cm/po

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: oil on canvas

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Shirtseries 7

Work ID: 60962

Measurements: 91.44 x 60.96 cm/po

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Date Made: 1998

Materials: oil on canvas

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Forest 2

Work ID: 60950

Measurements: 101.6 x 76.2 cm/po

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: oil on canvas

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Forest 5

Work ID: 60951

Measurements: 76.2 x 60.96 cm/po

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Date Made: 2000

Materials: oil on canvas

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Mt. Tolmie

Work ID: 60958

Measurements: 101.6 x 76.2 cm/po

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Date Made: 2002

Materials: oil on canvas

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Grass 12

Work ID: 60956

Measurements: 35.56 x 35.56 cm/po

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Date Made: 2004

Materials: watercolour on Strathmore board

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Grass 2

Work ID: 60953

Measurements: 35.56 x 35.56 cm/po

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Date Made: 2004

Materials: watercolour on Strathmore board

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Grass 6

Work ID: 60954

Measurements: 35.56 x 35.56 cm/po

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Date Made: 2004

Materials: watercolour on Strathmore board

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Grass 11

Work ID: 60955

Measurements: 35.56 x 35.56 cm/po

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Date Made: 2004

Materials: watercolour on Strathmore board

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Grass

Work ID: 60948

Measurements: 35.56 x 35.56 cm/po

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Date Made: 2004

Materials: watercolour on Strathmore board

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Grass 1

Work ID: 60952

Measurements: 35.56 x 35.56 cm/po

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Date Made: 2005

Materials: watercolour on Strathmore board

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA