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AR6. PAINTING

Painting:Class Reunion of 1932 Meds.

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

Year:1954

Date Donated:Oc./05

Donor:Carol Froese

Location:On Display

Accession Number:005.444.1

Painting: Concept of LM Home

Description: Concept of the LM Home as designed by architects J.P

Thompson Associates in 1963. Home built to this design in 1964

and opened 1965. With frame.

Year: 1963

Donated Date: May 24, 1993

Donor: Leamington Mennonite Home

Located: storage area

Accession Number: 993.47.1

PaintingL(Print)"Der Breite Und Schmale Weg"

Description: A framed print which hung in the Konrad home on Pelee

Island where the Sunday worship was also held until they moved to

the mainland in 1937

Year: 1937

Donated 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).

Year:

Donated Date: July 24, 1996

Donor: Alfred Willms

Located: hanging on wall

Accession Number: 996.42.3

Painting: Early Mennonite home in Manitoba

Description: print of sketch by Victor Friesen of early Manitoba

Mennonite home.

Year:

Donated Date: November 2, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Located: 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.

Year:

Donated Date: November 22, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Located: book shelves

Accession Number: 993.11.2

Painting: Fall scene

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

frame.

Year: 1992

Donated Date: August 13, 1992

Donor: John H. and Helen Dyck

Located: wall

Accession Number: 992.100.1

Painting: Farm in Russia and Manitoba

Description: print of Victor Friesen sketch; typical farmstead in

Russia and later Manitoba.

Year:

Donor: Irma Mathies

Located: book shelves

Accession Number: 993.11.3

Print: Fractur – Ronald J. Ruth

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

Year: 2003-04-01

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

Location: on display

Accession No. 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,

Etcetera Shops, Disaster service."

Painted on plywood. Includes cards with English translation of

inscriptions.

Year: 1989

Donated Date: August 7, 1992

Donor: Henry Pauls

Located: display shelf/archival box

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

Donated Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Located: wall

Accession Number: 993.46.1

Painting: Mennonite Service in Manitoba

Description: Unframed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls shows

Mennonite church service on the Prairies in Manitoba. Part of a

set of paintings.

Year: 1993

Donated Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Located: display case

Accession Number: 993.46.4

Painting: Neuenburg/Mexico church

Description: Unframed 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.

Part of a set of paintings.

Year: 1993

Donated Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: display case

Located: on display

Accession Number: 993.46.2

Painting: Oil Painting – by Helene Thiessen (mother of Helmu

Thiessen)

Description:sunset, palm trees, and ocean – South American scene

Year:

Date Donated:Jan./04

Donor:Helmut Thiessen

Location:on display on the wall near duplicator

Accession Number:004.429.1

Painting: Original Scripture LUMC

Description: Painting of the original Scripture verse hanging in

front of the LUMC (circa 1940). Painted in 1940 by Rudy Dyck.

The verse in gothic script reads "Himmel und Erde warden

vergehen, aber meine Worte werden nicht vergeh'n". (The copies of

this verse in both English and German hang on display in Heritage

Centre, other copies of these presently hang in the NLUMC, and the

verse is etched into the stone wall behind the pulpit in the LUMC.)

Year: 1940

Donated Date: May 24, 1993

Donor: Peter Warkentin

Located: display

Accession Number: 993.48.1

Painting: (Prints) 3: Conrad Grebel, Felix Mantz, George Blaurock

hanging above the window next to the door

Donated Date:

Donor: Menno Epp

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

Donated Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Located: display case

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.

Year:

Donated Date: November 22, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Located: book shelves

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

Year:

Donated Date: August 23, 1996

Donor: Betty Janzen Lavooij

Located: display

Accession Number: 996.376.1

Painting: School in Kronsgart

Description: Unframed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls showing the

school in Kronsgart, Chihuahua, Mexico. Part of a set of

paintings.

Year: 1993

Donated Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Located: display case

Accession Number: 993.46.3

Painting: Simlin

Description: print of sketch by Victor Peters of simlin used by

early Mennonited settlers.

Year:

Donated Date: November 22, 1993

Donor: Irma Mathies

Located: book shelves

Accession Number: 993.11.5

Painting: Successful Mennonite farm

Description: Unframed oil painting by Henry B. Pauls showing a

successful Mennonite, the rich farm as Johann Cornies' farm was in

Russia. Part of a set of paintings.

Year: 1993

Donated Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Located: display case

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

Donated Date: May 18, 1993

Donor: Henry B. Pauls

Located: wall

Accession Number: 993.46.7

Painting: Oil painting

Artist: Helen Thiessen (wife of Willy Thiessen, mother of

Helmut

Year:

Date Donated: Sept./05

Donor: Abram Mathies

Location: On display

Accession Number: 005.45.14

Description: mountain scene

Photograph:Mersia Township Historical Society

Year:September, 2006

Date Donated:Feb./07

Donor:Karl & Marlene Epp

Location:On display

Accession Number:007.14.4

Description:Phtos of awards & banquet in Sept./06

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

Mathies

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

Neufeld

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.