Maria Torrence Wishart (1893-1982) was a Canadian medical illustrator and the founder of the University of Toronto's Art as Applied to Medicine program. She was educated at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine under Max Brödel, and in 1925 returned to Canada to found the Department of Medical Art Service in the Faculty of Medicine.
Early life and education
Wishart was born in 1893 to an affluent family in Edwardian Toronto.[1] After travelling in Europe, she returned to North America with the outbreak of WWI, and studied art in Massachusetts.[1] In 1922 she moved to Baltimore to study with the renowned German medical illustrator Max Brödel in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[1] The training in Baltimore emphasized anatomical, pathological, and surgical illustration.[2]
Career
In 1925 after moving back to Toronto, Wishart was appointed as an "artiste" in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.[3][4] She founded, and was the first director of,[5] the Department of Medical Art Service at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.[6][7] Following her retirement from the University of Toronto in 1962, she pursued continuing education courses and was a sculptor. She died in 1982, at the age of 90.[1]
Further reading
Sawchuk, Kim (2017). "Animating the Anatomical Specimen". In Wils, Kaat; de Bont, Raf; Au, Sokhieng (eds.). Bodies Beyond Borders: Moving Anatomies, 1750–1950. Leuven University Press. pp. 276–278. ISBN 9789462700949. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
References
- ^ a b c d Taylor, Alice (June 17, 2015). "Anatomy of an Illustrator". University of Toronto Magazine. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Art as Applied to Medicine History and Archives".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Shorter, Edward (2013). Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals. University of Toronto Press. p. 644. ISBN 9781442645950. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- ^ Oglov, Linda (15 June 1983). "Medical illustration: from Da Vinci to Telidon". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 128: 1479. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- ^ "Medical Artists Discuss Teaching". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. 27 March 1955. p. 7B. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ "Women Prove Experts As Medical Artists". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. CP. 13 December 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ Robinson, Martha (26 March 1980). "Training a tough grind for medical illustrators". The Vancouver Sun. p. B6. Retrieved 24 March 2019.