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The animal kingdom : based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and others
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25070
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1897
- Author
- Craig, Hugh (editor)
- Publisher
- New York : Johnson & Bailey
- Call Number
- 04.2 C84a Volume One
- 04.2 C84a Volume Two
1 website
- Author
- Craig, Hugh (editor)
- Responsibility
- John James Audubon
- Alfred Edmund Brehm
- Publisher
- New York : Johnson & Bailey
- Published Date
- 1897
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes : color illustrations
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Abstract
- Pertains the the animal kingdom as it was known in 1897 and includes stories and summaries and art by several well known wildlife artists and naturalists in two volumes
- Contents
- Contents of Volume One:
- Mammalia
- Quadrumana
- Cheiroptera
- Insectivora
- Carnivora
- Cetacea
- Contents of Volume Two:
- Sirenia
- Ungulata
- Proboscidea
- Hyracoidea
- Rodentia
- Edentata
- Marsupialia
- Montremata
- Notes
- Belonged to Pat Brewster
- Accession Number
- 2926
- Call Number
- 04.2 C84a Volume One
- 04.2 C84a Volume Two
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via Hathi Trust
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Annie Pootoogook: cutting ice
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19837
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Campbell, Nancy
- Publisher
- Fredericton, NB : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, ON : McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Call Number
- 06.1 C14a
1 website
- Author
- Campbell, Nancy
- Responsibility
- Nancy Campbell
- Publisher
- Fredericton, NB : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, ON : McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) : 27 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- First Nations
- Inuit
- Canadian art
- Subjects
- Art
- First nations - Artists
- Abstract
- This exhibition celebrates the strength and contemporaneity of Pootoogook’s work but also uncovers how it has influenced her peers. Alongside works by Pootoogook, this exhibition will include works of art by Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Jutai Toonoo, Ohotaq Mikkigak and Siassie Kenneally, showing how Annie Pootoogook made it possible to begin a different conversation that celebrates Inuit art in new ways in Canada and the world. Bringing these artists’ works and words together in the Cutting Ice exhibition, will celebrate Annie Pootoogook as an important creative catalyst in contemporary art. (Taken from McMichael: Canadian Art Collection)
- Contents
- Director's foreword / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative President's foreword / Pingwartok Ottokie -- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative: a short history / Nancy Campbell, in consultation with West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative -- Dear Annie... / Nancy Campbel.
- ISBN
- 9781773100692
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 C14a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- The URL pertains to the site in which the information for the abstract was drawn from
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Anthropocene : Burtynsky, Baichwal, de Pencier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19825
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Hackett, Sophie (curator), Andrea Kunard (curator), Urs Stahel (curator)
- Publisher
- Toronto : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions
- Call Number
- 06.4 H11a
1 website
- Responsibility
- Curated by Sophie Hackett, Andrea Kunard, Urs Stahel
- Publisher
- Toronto : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Photographers
- Photography
- Photography, Aerial
- Art
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition catalogue
- Environment
- Subjects
- Art - Exhibitions
- Art and photography
- Art and society
- Artists
- Color photography
- Design, Industrial - Pictoral works
- Education
- Photographers
- Photographs - Catalogues
- Photography
- Photography - Collections
- Photography - Exhibitions
- Photography - Landscapes
- Photography, Documentary
- Recycling (Waste), etc.
- Video art - Exhibitions
- Abstract
- "A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Anthropocene, a collaboration by the artists and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier, including film, photography, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Anthropocene is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, in partnership with Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia (Fondazione MAST)."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Foreword / Stephan Jost, Marc Mayer, and Isabella Sera`gnaoli -- Far and near : new views of the anthropocene / Sophie Hackett -- The anthropocene and its "golden spike" / Colin Waters & Jan Zalasiewicz -- "How anthropo-scenic!" : concerns and debates about the age of the human / Karla McManus -- Works -- Life in the anthropocene / Edward Burtynsky -- Our embedded signal / Jennifer Baichwal -- Evidence / Nicholas de Pencier -- Adams, Adams, Baltz, Burtynsky : the role of landscape in North America photography / Urs Stahel -- The art museum and the anthropocene / Andrea Kunard.
- ISBN
- 978-1-988788-04-3
- Accession Number
- 2019.36
- Call Number
- 06.4 H11a
- Collection
- Art Library
- URL Notes
- Website for the Anthropocene multidisciplinary work by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier
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Art inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains 1809-2012
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Townshend, Nancy
- Publisher
- Calgary : Bayeux Arts
- Call Number
- N T69 A78
1 website
- Author
- Townshend, Nancy
- Responsibility
- Nancy Townshend
- Publisher
- Calgary : Bayeux Arts
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- vi, 136p, 40 plates : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- O'Brien, Lucius
- Notman, William & Son
- Thompson, David
- Harmon, Byron
- Harris, Lawren
- MacDonald, J.E.H
- Sargent, John Singer
- Whyte, Peter
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Rocky Mountains
- Purcell Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains
- Abstract
- Nancy Townshend's book on art inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains, and Selkirk Mountains presents these mountains' justifiable prominence in world art. For over two centuries, Canadian artists have admired their magnitude and grandeur, their endlessly changing light and atmospheric conditions, their four distinct seasons, and myriad other aspects. The book is organized chronologically into three eras: traditional (1809 –1899), Modern (1900–1973) and contemporary (1974–2012). From David Thompson's watercolours in the early nineteenth century (c. 1809) of the East Kootenays to Jan Kabatoff's multimedia art of the early twenty-first century that addresses the impact of global warming on glaciers, Townshend's book presents a whole gamut of Canadian art inspired by these great mountains. Featuring three comprehensive overviews and thirteen chapters on both central and western Canadian artists, as well as a chapter on American artist John Singer Sargent, the book offers insights into their art and inspirations. What did two centuries of artistic exploration in the infinitely facetted Canadian Rockies, Purcells and Selkirks yield? How did the resulting works of art serve to build a unique western Canadian identity? How does the West inform Canadians about themselves, about their own place in the world at this critical time in world history? Townshend answers these questions in this significant reference book for decades to come. Over the past two hundred years, a shift from the exploitative view of Canada's mountain West during the traditional era to the contemporary creative genesis of this area has occurred. Because of the contemporary artists' commitment to wildlife conservation and environmental issues, the contemporary era is more outward looking and expansive, concerned about the world's future. Townshend's all-encompassing text and selected stunning images confirm John Ruskin's observation that mountains are "the beginning and end of all natural scenery." That Canada's mountain West is indeed a place to be revered, a place from which we can learn about ourselves now and in the future. (from author's website)
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the Traditional Era (1809-1899):
- Chapter One - Lucius O'Brien (1832-1899)
- Chapter Two - William McFarlane Notman (1857-1913)
- Chapter Three - Frederic Bell-Smith (1846-1923)
- Chapter Four - David Thompson (1770-1857)
- Chapter Five - Richard Henery Trueman (1856-1911)
- Chapter Six - Byron Harmon (1976-1942)
- Introduction to the Modern Era (1900-1971):
- Chapter Seven - Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970)
- Chapter Eight - J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932)
- Chapter Nine - John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
- Chapter Ten - Peter Whyte (1905-1966)
- Chapter Eleven - Catharine Robb Whyte (1906-1979)
- Introduction to the Contemporary Era (1972-2012):
- Chapter Twelve - Kent Monkman (1965-)
- Chapter Thirteen - Jin-Me Yoon (1960-)
- Chapter Fourteen - Jan Kabatoff (1948-)
- Conclusion
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author
- ISBN
- 978-1-897411-37-7
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- N T69 A78
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Author's website
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The artist herself : self-portraits by Canadian historical women artists
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19841
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Boutilier, Alicia and Tobi Bruce
- Publisher
- Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Call Number
- 06.1 B66t
1 website
- Variant Title
- L'artiste elle-me^me : autoportraits de femmes artistes au Canada
- Responsibility
- Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce
- Publisher
- Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 173 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Subjects
- Artists - Canada
- Exhibitions
- Art
- Women artists
- Abstract
- Drawing upon our fascination with self-portraits, The Artist Herself expands the genre’s definition by moving beyond the human face to propose other forms of self-representation, from both settler and Indigenous perspectives. The result is a thought-provoking selection of 55 works by 42 women artists in a range of media, including paintings, textiles, photographs and film. Both renowned and lesser-known artists are featured: Pitseolak Ashoona, Simone Mary Bouchard, Emily Carr, Paraskeva Clark, Martha Eetak, Artis Lane, Caroline Gros Louis, Alice Egan Hagen, Frances Anne Hopkins, E. Pauline Johnson, Maud Lewis, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Hannah Maynard, Daphne Odjig, Princess Louise, Mary Hiester Reid and Marian Dale Scott. From Johnson’s performance costumes representing her dual Mohawk and Euro-Canadian identity to Carr’s painting of herself from the back at her easel, from Maynard’s playful photographs of her multiple selves to Ashoona’s sly comment on her participation in the Inuit art market, these works open up new avenues of inquiry and new understandings of the realities and perspectives of women in Canadian society before 1970. Most important, the exhibition reveals the ways in which women artists have given profound expression to their identities
- Contents
- Foreword / Avant-propos -- Lenders / Pre^teurs -- Acknowledgements / Remerciements -- The artist herself = L'artiste elle-me^me / Alicia Boutilier & Tobi Bruce -- Cree dolls / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Elizabeth Simcoe / Erin Wall -- Katherine Jane Ellice / Arlene Gehmacher -- Shanawdithit / Fiona Polack -- Mary Ann Scrimes & Elizabeth Jane Turner / Janice Helland -- Lady Belleau & Lady Glover / Andrea Kunard -- Frances Anne Hopkins & Princess Louise / Kristina Huneault -- E. Pauline Johnson / Carla Taunton -- E. Pauline Johnson / Paula Whitlow -- Hannah Maynard / Jennifer Salahub -- Maud Darling / Jennifer Salahub -- Bertha May Ingle / Mary Thompson & David Beattie -- Mattie Gunterman / Susan Close -- Caroline Gros Louis / Annette de Stecher -- Emily Carr / Lisa Baldiserra -- Martha (Muqyunnik) Eetak / Maureen Matthews -- Marion Long / Janice Anderson -- Margaret Watkins / Mary O'Connor -- Dorothea Mitchell / Kelly Saxberg -- Sylvia Daoust / Joyce Millar -- Paraskeva Clark / Panya Clark -- Pegi Nicol MacLeod / Laura Brandon -- Simone Mary Bouchard / Laurier Lacroix -- Marian Dale Scott / Esther Tre´panier -- Maud Lewis / Erin Morton -- Elizabeth Harrison / Dorothy Farr -- Suzanne Duquet / Miche`le Grandbois -- Artis Lane / Artis Lane -- Molly Lamb Bobak / Amber Lloydlangston -- Cecil Buller / Sandra Dyck -- Jessie Oonark & Inuit Doll / Heather Igloliorte -- Kenojuak Ashevak / Kenojuak Ashevak -- Christiane Pflug / Georgiana Uhlyarik -- Daphne Odjig / Greg Hill -- Margaret Frank & Marion Wilson / Andy Everson -- Pitseolak Ashoona / Norman Vorano -- Exhibition list = Liste des œuvres -- Contributors = Contributeurs.
- Notes
- Some of the essays are in English, while others are in French
- ISBN
- 9781553394075
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 B66t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Beyond "the artist's wife": women, artist-couple marriage and the exhibition experience in postwar Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19806
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Mastin, Catharine Margaret
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothe`que et Archives Canada
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ma37b
1 website
- Author
- Mastin, Catharine Margaret
- Responsibility
- Catharine Margaret Mastin
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothe`que et Archives Canada
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 358 pages ; PDF format
- Subjects
- Women
- Artists
- Exhibitions
- Thesis
- Abstract
- When art critic Lucy Lippard named "the artist's wife" to be a socially-assigned identity for female artists in the early 1970s, she understood some of the significance of women's companionship status. This dissertation considers how "the artist's wife" was a diverse and hierarchical problem for six female artists during their efforts to access Canada's postwar exhibition market. Joyce Wieland of Toronto, Ontario, Marion Nicoll of Calgary, Alberta, Mary Pratt of St. John's, Newfoundland, and Kenojuak Ashevak of Cape Dorset, Nunavut all experienced this social phenomenon differently. Because the two studios of Wieland and Pratt were combined with domestic life they were also dubbed "kitchen artists." As Marion Nicoll learned, it took much conviction to pursue an art practice focused on abstract painting in traditional institutional and marital contexts. The category "Eskimo" added racial difference to Kenojuak's creative and marital identities. Frances Loring and Florence Wyle of Toronto were persistently called "the Girls," an identity that underscored their non-compliance with heterosexual marriage. Using feminist theories of sexual difference and representation, and intersecting the traditionally distinct fields of history and art history, this study illuminates that the female artist's companionship status mattered much more than has been historically understood. These artists' experiences provide opportunity to reflect on curatorial practice and subject representation and expose that the solo exhibition cannot be fully separated from the artist-couple exhibition when studying the female artist's exhibition history. Their experiences also make visible that gender and female artist identities, including the category "woman artist," are important when studying the female artist in postwar North American art and marriage histories if the social conditions of women's art production are to be fully understood.
- Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter One : introduction : beyond "the artist's wife"
- Chapter Two : socializing women to marriage : the five artist-couple marraiges of Marion Nicholl, Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt, Frances Loring, Florence Wyle and Kenojuak Ashevak
- Chapter Three : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : the experience of abstract painting and the artist-couple marriages of Marion Nicholl and Joyce Wieland, 1959 - 1963
- Chapter Four : two women's "one-man exhibitions" : Joyce Wieland, Mary Pratt and the identity "kitchen artist" 1963 - 1973
- Chapter Five : two more women's "two-man" artist-couple exhibitions : the social emergence of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle as "the girls"
- Chapter Six : one women's "two-man" exhibitions : Kenojuak Ashevak's artist-couple exhibitions with Johnniebo Ashevak, 1967 - 1970
- Chapter Seven : conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1
- Copyright permissions
- ISBN
- 978-0-494-89628-0
- Accession Number
- p2019-26
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ma37b
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online through University of Alberta
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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art 2011-2012 Edition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25130
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011 - 2012
- Author
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2011-2012PAM
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- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Published Date
- 2011 - 2012
- Physical Description
- 48 pages ; illus.
- Series
- 2011-2012
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Art galleries
- Artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Contents
- From Yellowstone to Yukon - the Journey of Wildlife Art
- Above Timberline - the Complete Carl Rungius Drypoint Collection
- A Force of Nature - the Art of George McLean
- The Last Ocean - Weller's Antarctica
- In the Spotlight - Mark Eberhard's "On the Edge"
- Notes
- Article about the exhibition "From Yellowstone to Yukon - the Journey of Wildlife Art" was on display at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in 2012
- Article "Above Timberline - the Complete Carl Rungius Drypoint Collections" pertains the the complete collection of drypoint's at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2011-2012PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art Volume 5, Number 1, 2009
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25122
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
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- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 46 pages ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 5, Number 1
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Art galleries
- Artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Contents
- Patrons without peer: selections from the McCoy Collection
- He speaks for the trees: Dr. Suess and the Lorax
- On the natural world
- Collection spotlight: Dan Ostermiller's "The Emperor"
- Walter Hood to design sculpture trail for museum
- Wildlife in American art
- Community focus committee: engaging the community
- Notes
- Features article on page 18 entitled "Looking at Wildlfe - the maturing Carl Rungius" - the National Museum of Wildlife Art holds the largest collection of Carl Rungius pieces in the United States
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2009 PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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Call of the wild - National Museum of Wildlife Art Volume 6, Number 1, 2010
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25119
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2010 PAM
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- Publisher
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 54 pages ; illus.
- Series
- Volume 6, Number 1
- Subjects
- Wildlife
- Wildlife artists
- Art
- Art galleries
- Artists
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildlife art and wildlife artists at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming
- Contents
- Museum announces inaugural Bull-Bransom award for children's book illustration
- Authentic and artistic: Karl Bodmer's western wildlife
- When two prints are not the same
- Wild at heart, a rich history of fauna in art
- Picture this: a change of seasons
- Exclusive: Maurice Sendak on the wild side of humanity
- Me & Mike : Mike Forsberg's Great Plains
- Secrets of the night - dusk to dawn: nocturnes from the collection
- Incomparable inspiration: African adventures with William R. Leigh and his contemporaries
- Collection spotlight: Rembrandt, Bugatti and the Antwerp School
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19c 2010 PAM
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- Archives Library
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- National Museum of Wildlife Art website
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Dear Nan : letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25081
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
1 website
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (editor)
- Responsibility
- Doreen Walker (editor)
- Publisher
- Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- xlvi, 436 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Carr, Emily
- Abstract
- This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr’s career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting – “the biggest thing in my life.” There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience with critics and poseurs, and they give insights into her various relationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, Jack Shadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and Arthur Lismer. Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms shared Emily Carr’s interest in art. Carr’s relationship with Cheney dated back to 1930 but did not flourish until 1937 when Cheney moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to become the first full-time medical artist at UBC. Humphrey Toms was only twenty years old when he first met Emily Carr, having asked to visit her after seeing some of her paintings, following which a warm friendship developed. The correspondence between Cheney and Toms reveals how Carr was regarded at the time and attests to their mutual interest in the Vancouver art scene. As an active member Cheney relates gossip about the local art community, providing a very personal and often exceedingly critical view of the Vancouver art milieu of the time. Doreen Walker has chosen not to change the original text of the letters and includes Carr’s misspellings and grammatical irregularities, which give a feeling of immediacy to the writing. There are numerous examples of her talent for graphic description, how she felt “rag rug level” when depressed and how she “was sat down with a spank” when ill. Perhaps most significant are the many revelations of her deep commitment to her work and of her industry and perseverance despite her failing health. “Queer how we go on,” she wrote to Cheney, “luck there is so much rubber in human composition.” (from UBC Press website)
- Contents
- Foreward Introduction Note on the text Acknowledgements Abbreviations Colour Plates Chronology Illustrations The Letters Postscript Transcription of the Carr Letters Emily Carr’s “Variations” Index
- ISBN
- 9780774803908
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 06.1 W14d
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on UBC Press website
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