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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
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- 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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Land, spirit, power : First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25118
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Nemiroff, Diana
- Houle, Robert
- Townsend-Gault, Charlotte
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
1 website
- Responsibility
- Diana Nemiroff
- Robert Houle
- Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Publisher
- [Ottawa] : The Gallery
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 231 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada that focussed on art by Indigenous Peoples
- Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- Land, Spirit, Power
- Modernism, Nationalism, and Beyond - a critical history of exhibitions of First Nations art - Diana Nemiroff
- The Spiritual Legacy of the Ancient Ones - Robert Houle
- Kinds of Knowing - Charlotte Townsend-Gault
- Notes
- Carl Beam
- Rebecca Belmore
- Dempsey Bob
- Domingo Cisneros
- Robert Davidson
- Jimmie Durham
- Dorothy Grant
- Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds
- Faye HeavyShield
- Alex Janvier
- Zacharias Kunuk
- James Lavadour
- Truman Lowe
- James Luna
- Teresa Marshall
- Alanis Obomsawin
- Kay WalkingStick
- Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
- ISBN
- 0888846509
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 06.1 N34l
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Gallery of Canada information on exhibition
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