One sketchbook with 30 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings are of First Nations designs and landscapes including Alert Bay dating from 1930 to 1939. The drawings are copied from illustrations in Franz Boas, Primitive Art, published in Oslo, Norway, 1927. Carr copied them as a means of familiarizing herself with the forms and artistic conventions of First Nations monumental art of the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. Information matching each sketch to a page in Primitive Art was provided by Carr scholar Dr Gerta Moray and is filed in the documentation file for PDP05647.
Item consists of a three-panel folded booklet with two watercolours and a poem (in two pieces) by Emily Carr, dating from ca. 1902. The booklet describes an adventure she had while sketching in Tregenna Wood at St Ives, Cornwall, England and the images include self portraits. Each aspect of this artwork has been described separately, see: PDP10255; PDP10256; and PDP10257.
One sketchbook PDP08791 originally containing PDP08792 through PDP08820 containing still lifes, geometric studies, coastal and forest, landscapes, monumental poles and canoes.
Item consists of one handwritten poem in two pieces. The poem is affixed to the centre panel of a three-panel booklet (PDP10254), with two paintings on either side which illustrate the contents of the poem. Transcript of original text:
*I am a Colonial and have heard the English say
"Colonials have no manners," your advice then lend me pray
One day my pathway led me into a lonely wood
T'was far away but fine the day and good
And yet your English climate is full of whims and so
Down poured the rain and I must into shelter go
I meet another student in the same plight as I
The nearest refuge that we find is but an old pigsty
A placid Sow lies sleeping upon the scattered straw
We enter, and take shelter within the open door
She shares with us her little pen, hospitable and kind
For full an hour while lasts the shower
We warmth and shelter find
Once more into that wood I wend my lonely way
Once more comes on a heavy shower from the sty I'm far away
But today I need not flee my umbrella is with me
Now while I shelter thus enjoy I hear a grunt close by
Good Mrs. Sow is waddling past the owner of the sty
The rain is pouring down her back and dropping from her ears *And rolling down her fatted cheeks like showers of briny tears
And this is now my question answear Englishman whilt thow?
"Should I share my umbrella with that fat and soaking sow?"
Item consists of one watercolour painting affixed to the third panel of a three-panel booklet (PDP10254). The painting depicts one person (Emily Carr) and a sow walking under an umbrella in the rain, and corresponds to the text of the adjacent poem (PDP10256).
One sketchbook with 33 drawings by Emily Carr within. The images include cartoons with verse, posed models. Pages of poetry includes "The Olsson Student" which refers to a separate series of images (PDP06117 to PDP06124) created by Carr, presumably also in 1904 depicting Carr's life in St Ives 1901-1902. Sketches and cartoons set in both Vancouver and Victoria are also included here.
Item consists of one watercolour painting affixed to the first panel of a three-panel booklet (PDP10254). The painting depicts two people and a sow huddled under a shelter during a downpour, and corresponds to the text of the adjacent poem (PDP10256).
![The White Sow of Tregenna Woods, St. Ives [panel 2]](/uploads/r/null/7/4/6/74681ab04a02b5bf26a60351a0aff9f80a5d0369f3dad4780da46fe3110e904c/pdp10256_142.jpg)
![The White Sow of Tregenna Woods, St. Ives [panel 3]](/uploads/r/null/6/1/6/6163f0ab61ec165d4b70f60bb27270d084ff19c4f0bb63947215644202a3657d/pdp10257_142.jpg)
![The White Sow of Tregenna Woods, St. Ives [panel 1]](/uploads/r/null/6/a/2/6a2667bfeddc20eb87bbadad04d4fd0f7377051ef7450e822cdca29f6df1b8dc/pdp10255_142.jpg)
