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Emily Carr art collection

  • PR-2378
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1893]-1945

The collection consists of artwork created or acquired by Emily Carr between ca. 1893 and 1945. This collection was acquired by the BC Archives over many years through donations and purchases. It includes sketchbooks, paintings and other artworks.

Carr, Emily

Kendall & I [funny book]

MS-3326 consists of one funny book, created by Emily Carr in 1901. The funny book is comprised of seven pairs of works, which consist of graphite and ink drawings with accompanying hand-written verse. The work details the shared adventure of Carr and her friend, Hannah Kendall, as they attempted to view the funeral procession of Queen Victoria in London, February 2, 1901.

Each pair of works has been described at the item level.

At six o'clock (...)

Item consists of 1 drawing and 1 set of verse.

Full text of verse [sic]:
At six o'clock from sleep I wake
By Kendal who my pillows shake,
Will you get up you lazy Carr?
The sun o'er chimney-pots a far
Is rising and tis deep transgression
To sleep and miss todays procession
Oh, slowly out of bed we rise
With woeful, weary, sleepy eyes,
Tis half-way dark and chilly too
And Kendals nose is red and blue.

Dong, Dong goes the deafening gong (...)

Item consists of 1 drawing and 1 set of verse.

Full text of verse [sic]:
Dong, Dong goes the deafening gong
Fixing ties belts and collars we hurry along.
And down the long staircase hurridly flock
Giving poor Mrs. Dodd a considerable shock
For every morning we're always late
For breakfast served at half past eight.

The buss man cast us off (...)

Item consists of 1 drawing and 1 set of verse.

Full text of verse [sic]:
The buss man cast us off the buss
Because we had not change with
Quoth Kendal, "Carr you are a fool
To take with you that stupid stool
I've got a bag of caramels,
To eat when not observed by swells."

Saith Kendal (...)

Item consists of 1 drawing and 1 set of verse.

Full text of verse [sic]:
Saith Kendal "Wont you Bobbey please
Shew us a sport where we can squeeze?"
I stood behind and hid my stool,
Because you know it was the rule,
No chairs or stools should be allowed,
To persons standing in the crowd

Now Kendal and the Bobbey (...)

Item consists of 1 drawing and 1 set of verse.

Full text of verse [sic]:
Now Kendal and the Bobbey had a hot and heavy fight
Kendal pounded the poor Bobbey with all of her puny might,
For the Bobbey pushed her back for some much belated swells
And she struck the sollid Bobbey with her bag of caamels
Mid the scuffle that ensured my stool was borne away
Its services did not avail to raise my height that day
I could not stop to pick it up the crowd was so intense
I only wished I were'nt so short and longed to be immense

On our tippest, tippest, tiptoes (...)

Item consists of 1 drawing and 1 set of verse.

Full text of verse [sic]:
On our tippest, tippest, tiptoes
With our necks stretch nigh to crack,
It is coming, we are watching
Opened eyes and stiffened back

I saw a corner of the pall
And Kendal saw the Kaiser
But what went on before, behind
We both were none the wiser.

The next few days (...)

Item consists of 1 drawing and 1 set of verse.

Full text of verse [sic]:
The next few days were very bad
Both for Kendal and for me
I lay in bed, with an aching head
She wearily brought me tea,
And we talked it over gravely
All the squeezing and the pain,
And we said, mid a crowd in London,
We would never go again.

Skidigate [Sic]

The item consists of an oil on canvas painting set within a wooden frame designed by Lawren Harris affixed by the executors of Carr's estate.

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