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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2013.045.002.005 |
Object Name |
Drawing, Technical |
Title |
[Drawing - Fruit and Floral Decoration] |
Description |
Pencil drawing of a floral element with a tapered column in the centre. On top of the column is an arrangement of fruits and leaves. "No 6" is written in red pencil to the right of the drawing. In the lower right corner, written in pencil is "Gordon F. Becker, 340 Wellington St., Kitchener Ont Can, Advanced Ornament, Plate No. 6, Jan 24 1930". In the upper right corner is a paper sticker with "The Grand Rapids/School of Designing/547 Houseman Building/Grand Rapids, Michigan" and underneath is "Construction, Ornament, Neatness, Lettering" and "Passing Mark" each has "100" written in green ink and "Remarks: AK". 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. |
Search Terms |
Grand Rapids School of Designing |
People |
Becker, Gordon |