National Gallery of Canada (1977)
1954-1977
File 64
File documents Victor Prus's unrealized project for the National Gallery of Canada second competition in Ottawa, in 1977. Material in this file was produced between 1954 and 1977, but predominantly between 1975 and 1977. The file contains drawings, such as conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings, textual records, such as correspondence and clippings, presentation panels, flats and other photographic materials and periodcal issues with articles about the competition. The file also includes a model of the proposed project.
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
Ottawa Ontario Canada
Documents are in English.
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This group consists of floor plans, elevations, site plans and perspectives for the National Gallery of Canada competition project, in Ottawa.
23 drawing(s)
Black ink, graphite and transfer type on plastic film; graphite and black ink on paper
sheet (smallest): 78.6 × 91.5 cm sheet (largest): 96.8 × 111.9 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
This group consists of site plans, perspectives, floor plans, elevations and sections for the National Gallery of Canada competition project.
25 drawing(s)
Diazotypes; reprographic copy on plastic film
sheet (smallest): 41.6 × 32.7 cm sheet (largest): 45.8 × 53.5 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
This group consist of flats of site plans, perspectives, floor plans, elevations and a section for the National Gallery of Canada competition project.
19 flat(s)
Flats
sheet: 48 × 55.9 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
7 panel(s)
Printed images mounted on board
panels: 91 × 106.7 × 0.6 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
6 panel(s)
Printed images mounted on board
panels: 91.5 × 104.7 × 0.6 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
6 panel(s)
Printed images mounted on board
panels: 91.5 × 104.7 × 0.6 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
Section a, Architecture Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3, June-July 1983 issue with an article about the National Gallery of Canada and the National Museum of Man competition and the different proposals, including the Victor Prus project.
1 serial(s)
serial: 43.2 × 28 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
Section a, Architecture Magazine supplement of August 1984 presenting the twelve proposals for the National Gallery of Canada and the National Museum of Man competition, including a project by Victor Prus (Victor Prus and Maria Prus PLLL Architects).
1 serial(s)
serial: 43.2 × 28 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
Review of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Magazine, Spring 1978 issue, about the proposals for the National Gallery of Canada competition, including the Victor Prus project.
1 serial(s)
serial: 44 × 29.9 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
13 drawing(s)
Ink, coloured felt-tip pen on tracing paper; ink and graphite on paper
sheet (smallest): 28 × 52.6 cm sheet (largest): 45.7 × 111.5 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
7 drawing(s)
Ink, coloured felt-tip pen on tracing paper; ink and graphite on tracing paper; graphite and coloured pencil on tracing paper
sheet (smallest): 45.6 × 50 cm sheet (largest): 45.1 × 126.4 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
This group consists of a program for the competition, correspondence and related documents concerning the 1954 competition for the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario. There are also clippings of the call for submissions and of the jury's comments about the projects presented.
1 textual record(s)
Photocopies; typescript on vellum paper; graphite on paper
records: 0.01 l.m.
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-13 T
This group consists of clippings about the competition, correspondence and related documents concerning the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
1 textual record(s)
Photocopies; typescript on paper; typescript on vellum paper; clippings mounted on paper
records: 0.01 l.m.
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-14 T
This group consists of correspondence with the Department of Public Works of Canada and related documents concerning the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
1 textual record(s)
Photocopies; typescript on paper; typescript on vellum paper
records: 0.03 l.m.
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-15 T
This group consists of correspondence with the Department of Public Works of Canada and related documents concerning the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, including folders, briefing notes and information about the collection. The group also includes a floor plan and copies of photographs showing the interior of the Rideau Street Convent Chapel of the Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Ottawa.
1 textual record(s)
Photocopies; diazotypes
records: 0.01 l.m.
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-16 T
Interior view of the Rideau Street Convent Chapel of the Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Ottawa prior to its reconstruction in the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario.
1 photograph(s)
sheet: 20.1 × 25.4 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
1 negative(s)
negative: 12.5 × 17.5 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
Information for competitors for the design competition of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
1 portfolio(s)
portfolio: 30.7 × 24.5 cm
- 15 leaves.
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The document is in English.
163-21-17 T
This group consists of documents about existing museums and similar projects, serving as reference material for the National Gallery of Canada project, in Ottawa, Ontario, .
9 textual record(s)
Photocopies
sheet (smallest): 28 × 21.7 cm sheet (largest): 29.5 × 21.7 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in French and in English.
163-21-18 T
This group consists of notes, references for design data, correspondence and related documents concerning the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
4 textual record(s)
Graphite on paper; ink on paper; typescript on paper
sheet (smallest): 28 × 21.7 cm sheet (largest): 35.5 × 21.7 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-19 T
This group consists of preliminary concept information documents for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
18 textual record(s)
Photocopies; typescript on paper; ink on paper
sheets: 28 × 21.7 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-20 T
This group consists of photocopies of photographs of the model for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
12 textual record(s)
Photocopies
sheets: 28 × 21.7 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
163-21-21 T
This group consists of correspondence with architectural firms collaborating with Victor Prus in the design project for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
1 textual record(s)
Photocopies; typescript on paper; typescript on vellum paper; graphite on paper; photomechanical prints
records: 0.01 l.m.
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-22 T
This group consists of memorandums, notes, and correspondence with architectural firms collaborating with Victor Prus in the design project for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
1 textual record(s)
Photocopies; typescript on paper; ink on paper; typescript on vellum paper
records: 0.01 l.m.
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents are in English.
163-21-23 T
Copy of an agreement between Victor Prus and the other architectural firms collaborating in the design project for the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario.
1 textual record(s)
Photocopies
sheets: 28 × 21.7 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
- The documents is in French.
163-21-24 T
2 drawing(s)
Graphite, felt-tip pen and transfert type on paper mounted on tracing paper with water colour and felt-tip pen mounted on cardboard with ink and graphite; ink on plastic film
sheet (smallest): 40.7 × 60.5 cm sheet (largest): 58.4 × 72.2 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
163-25-11 M
1 model(s)
model (with plexiglas cover): 90 x 117 x 31,5 cm
Victor Prus fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Gift of Victor Prus/Don de Victor Prus
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