Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2013.045.002.011 |
Object Name |
Drawing, Technical |
Title |
Les Sept Peches Capitaux |
Description |
Pencil drawing on heavy beige paper. The drawing is a representation of the seven deadly sins as monsters. They are connected together by a vine of thorns, and several of them appear to be fighting or attacking one another. The title is printed on a ribbon along the lower edge of the drawing. "100" is written in red pencil in the lower right corner. Also printed in the lower right corner is "Gordon F. Becker/340 Wellington St/Kitchener Ont Can/Advanced Ornament/Lesson No. 12 Apr. 19, 1930". The reverse is blank. |
Date |
1930 |
History |
Gordon Frederick Becker (1898-1975) was the son of Frederick Becker (1861-1931) and Wilhelmine Luedke (1860-1930) of Bentinck Township, Grey County. He married Flossie Elizabeth Schmitt (1899-1950) in 1921. Flossie was the daughter of Valentine Schmitt (1871-1937) and Margaret Pflug (1874-1953) of Waterloo County. Many of the family members are buried in Kitchener's Mount Hope Cemetery. Gordon was a wood carver who worked at several local furniture factories beginning in the 1920s. Presumably he moved to Kitchener to find employment. In the mid-1930s, he began working at Dominion Electrohome, and he worked there until he retired. Drawings appear to be from a correspondence course at the Grand Rapids School of Designing that Gordon took in the early 1930s. |
People |
Becker, Gordon |