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Item Details
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DEAR NAN
LETTERS OF EMILY CARR, NAN CHENEY, AND HUMPHREY TOMS |
| By: |
Doreen Walker (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£87.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0774803487 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780774803489 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1990 |
| Pages: |
505 |
| Description: |
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 written between 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr's career as both painter and writer. |
| Synopsis: |
This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friendsNan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly toEmily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolificperiod in Carr's career as both painter and writer. In them shewrites in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discussesher painting -- 'the biggest thing in my life.' There areoutbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of hercaring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience withcritics and poseurs, and they give insights into her variousrelationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, JackShadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and ArthurLismer.Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms shared Emily Carr's interest inart. Carr's relationship with Cheney dated back to 1930 but did notflourish until 1937 when Cheney moved from Ottawa to Vancouver tobecome the first full-time medical artist at UBC. Humphrey Toms wasonly twenty years old when he first met Emily Carr, having asked tovisit her after seeing some of her paintings, following which a warmfriendship developed.The correspondence between Cheney and Toms reveals how Carr wasregarded at the time and attests to their mutual interest in theVancouver art scene. As an active member Cheney relates gossip aboutthe local art community, providing a very personal and oftenexceedingly critical view of the Vancouver art milieu of the time.Doreen Walker has chosen not to change the original text of theletters and includes Carr's misspellings and grammaticalirregularities, which give a feeling of immediacy to the writing. Thereare numerous examples of her talent for graphic description, how shefelt 'rag rug level' when depressed and how she 'was satdown with a spank' when ill. Perhaps most significant are the manyrevelations of her deep commitment to her work and of her industry andperseverance despite her failing health. 'Queer how we go on,'she wrote to Cheney, 'luck there is so much rubber in humancomposition.' |
| Illustrations: |
16 b&w photographs and illustrations, 4-page full-colour plate section |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of British Columbia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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