{"id":2326,"date":"2011-11-25T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.library.ryerson.ca\/asc\/?p=973"},"modified":"2020-06-04T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:50:26","slug":"feature-from-the-collections-who-is-this-man-in-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asc\/2011\/11\/feature-from-the-collections-who-is-this-man-in-the-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature from the Collections: Who is this man in the Archives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Peter.\u00a0It’s his name.\u00a0An interesting fellow, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\r\n

“The Dream That Fagged Out<\/strong>” is\u00a0Peter\u2019s<\/em> official title. The word fagged<\/em> in its historical usage means completely exhausted, and there certainly seems to be a weight on Peter’s shoulders. \u201cThe work is so successful in its depiction of human despair and misery that no one at Ryerson has been able to keep it for long.\u201d [The Lectern<\/em>, October 1975, Works of Art docfl.]<\/p>\r\n

He was created by artist Julius Damasdy, (1937\/38 \u2013\u00a0 ) in the mid 1960s and was donated to Ryerson in 1967 by a founding member of the Board of Governors, Franc Joubin, who acquired him at an art show of the Ontario Society of Artists at the Toronto Art Gallery (now AGO).\u00a0 Mr. Joubin stated he would purchase whatever statue won in its class at the art show.\u00a0 As it turned out it was Peter<\/em> who won and who became part of the university\u2019s art collection.<\/p>\r\n

He resided in the reception area of President Fred Jorgenson’s office (in Kerr Hall South).\u00a0 After two years of dismally greeting staff and visitors alike, Peter<\/em> was moved to where he could cheer up the students. What better place than the Library (located, then, in the former Business Building, now the Victoria Building).<\/p>\r\n

General feelings were:<\/p>\r\n