Summaries of significant artefacts held in museum collections across Canada organized by province and territory. Includes the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Contents
Foreward
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Atlantic Provinces
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Indices
Notes
Stoney-Assiniboine beaded moccasins from Morley dated 1895 to 1910 at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies are featured on page 232-233
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
Pertains to early photographers with information compiled in a guide to support historical research
Contents
pt. 1. The experience of regional directory research. 1. Where did you find that one : sources for finding dead photographers / David Haynes. 2. Looking for Lochman : researching a historical photographer / Linda A. Ries. 3. California photographers : a personal account of regionalism in practice / Peter E. Palmquist. 4. Regional photographic history in Europe : a review of methodology and sources / Steven F. Joseph. 5. Combining directory research with demographic analysis / Ron Polito. 6. Ruminations after a bibliography of directory research / Richard Rudisill -- pt. 2. Directories of photographers : an annotated world bibliography / compiled by Richard Rudisill.
"In July 1975 the Alberta and Northwest Conference of the United Church of Canada recognized the Provincial Archives of Alberta as its official repository for its records"--Foreword.