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Unpublished; similar article printed in "The Aims of the Artist and His Place in Society", Highlights, 2, No. 1 (February 1948) |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unpublished |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unpublished |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unpublished manuscript |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