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Betty Madsen, 65, left, and her daughter Annelis, 24, work in the studio at their home, Cherry Hill Farm, located on Highway 7 in Unionville. The stud(...)
Betty Madsen, 65, left, and her daughter Annelis, 24, work in the studio at their home, Cherry Hill Farm, located on Highway 7 in Unionville. The stud(...)

Betty Madsen, 65, left, and her daughter Annelis, 24, work in the studio at their home, Cherry Hill Farm, located on Highway 7 in Unionville. The stud(...)

Date7/25/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Betty Madsen; 65; left; and her daughter Annelis; 24; work in the studio at their home; Cherry Hill Farm; located on Highway 7 in Unionville. The studio is a portable schoolhouse which the Madsens erected near the barn on the 100-acre farm. Mrs. Madsen and h er late husband; John Madsen; bought the farm in 1945 on which to found Canada's first folk school; modelled on those in their native Denmark. The farm is now a retreat house for women.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0104023F
An old chicken coop became the family chapel for the Madsens, who bought Cherry Hill Farm, in Unionville, remodelled the coop as a reverednd setting f(...)
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Prize winner: Betty Goodwin, right, receives one of Harold Town's works, and a cheque for $25,000, from Town's daughters Shelley, left and Heather
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Artist Robert Bateman at work in his studio surrounded by a clutter of books, papers and sketches, above
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Building an image: Portrait artist Brenda Bury works on her first public 'performance', painting of Arlene Perly Rae and her eldest daughter, Judith, 9
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Studio of Dingle home boasts a cathedral ceiling, adjustable hanging lights, plenty of storage space and a trap door on the floor leading to a downsta(...)
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Larger than life self-portrait of Lynn Donaghue frames the artist herself in her Toronto studio
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Artist gets rolling on work. Getting into gear for sculpture contest next month, artist Mike Frankland, 24, wheels away his material from Hamilton Gea(...)
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Final polish is applied by sculptor Anne Harris to her latest work, an alabaster abstract called Victoria, as she works in backyard of Downsview home.(...)
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