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1962-1980
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1906__________
Biographical Notes unpublished
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The Painter W.L.S.: a Memoir unpublished manuscript
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The Kite Poem. Published in Maxwell Bates, Far-Away Flags, (Victoria: The Seymour Press Ltd., 1964), 2 1928
1931__________
Naive Painting Phoebus Calling (Spring 1934):20-23 1934
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No Man Is Wholly Bad Poem. Published in Maxwell Bates, Far-Away Flags, (Victoria: The Seymour Press Ltd., 1964), 30 1938
1940__________
Prison Notebook unpublished mostly 1940 - 1942
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Barbed Wire Poem, Thuringia, Germany Published in Maxwell Bates, Far-Away Flags, (Victoria: The Seymour Press Ltd., 1964), 42 1943
1946__________
The Aims of the Artist and his Place in Society Unpublished; similar article printed in "The Aims of the Artist and His Place in Society", Highlights, 2, No. 1 (February 1948) 1948
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Graphic Art in Alberta Highlights 2, (March 1948):2-3 1948
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Some Problems of Environment Highlights 2 (December 1948):2-3 1948
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Government and the Arts Highlights 3, No. 4 (September 1949):1-2 1949
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Art and Snobbery Highlights 3, (March 1949):2-3 1949
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A Note on Japanese Colour-Prints November 1950 1950
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Letter to the Massey Report reprinted in Highlights, Vol. 5, #2 (September 1951):3-4 1951
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The Tiger Poem. Published in Maxwell Bates, Far-Away Flags, (Victoria: The Seymour Press Ltd., 1964), 52 1951
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Intimations Poem (likely Calgary). Published in Maxwell Bates, Far-Away Flags, (Victoria: The Seymour Press Ltd., 1964), 55 1953
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The Flight From Meaning in Painting Canadian Art II (Winter 1954):59-61. (on the organization of an artwork) 1954
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Alberta Association of Architects, Excerpts from a letter to the Thoughts on Architecture; December 31, 1955 1955
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Some Reflections on Art in Alberta Canadian Art, 13 (Autumn 1955):183-87 1955
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The Architect and Society A paper given by architect Bates at the inaugural 1956 Banff Session organized by the Alberta Association of Architects and University of Alberta and led by Richard Neutra. 1956
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Method of Painting June 1956 1956
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Divided We Fall Highlights (Summer 1957):7-8 1957
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The Existential Direction in Painting unpublished manuscript 1957
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Jock Macdonald, Painter-Explorer Canadian Art 14 (Summer 1957): 151-54. (excerpted) 1957
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Entries from Bates's "Journal of Thoughts", beginning August 30, 1957 1957
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Letter to the Editor Canadian Art 15 (January 1958) 1958
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Maxwell Bates on Painting Canadian Artists Series I: Bates/Humphrey, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1958; reprinted in Maxwell Bates Retrospective Exhibition, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, November 30, 1960 - January 2, 1961 1960
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Lithography Excerpts from Elizabeth Kilbourn, "18 Print-Makers", Canadian Art, vol. 18 (March-April 1961)" 1961
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Technique of Ink Paintings Done in 1961 1961
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The Tough Dollar Unpublished manuscript, November 1961 1961
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Vermicelli, Foreword excerpts late 1950s, early 1960s
1962__________
Life Work Poem. Published in Maxwell Bates, Far-Away Flags, (Victoria: The Seymour Press Ltd., 1964), 57 1962
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Meaning of Scarecrow Excerpts of a letter by Bates to Kenneth Saltmarche of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor 1966
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Memoranda on Art "Particularly Painting"; No. 1 - March 1969 1969
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Bates's Statement in the Victoria Daily Colonist February 17, 1970 1970
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A Wilderness of Days: An artist's experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany (Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1978):133 (excerpt) 1978
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The Question of Value in Painting unpublished
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A Painter's Aims unpublished
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Constructivism and Biederman's Aesthetics unpublished

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