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Nootka

One sketchbook with 43 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings appear to have been created on her 1929 trip up the west coast of Vancouver Island to Nootka Sound and another in 1930 to Quatsino Sound. They include sketches of landscapes, settlements, beaches, and stylized interpretations of forests and trees, along with a handful of copies she made of First Nations designs on the Captain Jack pole at Yuquot. Several pages have notations about colour, geographical locations or descriptions of scenery.

Indian Designs from Boas

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.

Blank Ontario Drawing Book No. 1.

One sketchbook with 32 drawings by Emily Carr and 6 blank pages. The drawings are all untitled and have no dates applied. They have been dated by Carr scholars as between 1930 to 1939. The sketches include brief unfinished graphite impressions, stylistic landscapes and forest interiors and some First Nations subject matter. At times the pages hold more than one sketch.

Humphrey Toms fonds

  • PR-0163
  • Fonds
  • 1933-1944

The fonds consists of 18 letters written to Humphrey Toms by Emily Carr, as well as 3 photographs taken by Toms.

Toms, Humphrey Nicolas Wolferstan

Books & odments

One sketchbook with 29 pages of drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings are of First Nations subject matter and landscapes.

Sketchbook

One sketchbook with 34 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings are in the main abstract forest and tree designs and dating from 1930 to 1939.

Sketchbook

One sketchbook with 9 pages of drawings both watercolour and graphite. All are untitled so titles are based on subject matter. Originally the sketchbook would have held many more pages. The back cover is not extant.

Kitwancool

One sketchbook containing 54 pages of drawings or sketches by Emily Carr. The drawings and watercolour sketches principally relate to her 1928 trip to the Gitxsan villages of Gitanyow (Kitwancool), Gitwangak (Kitwanga), Kispiox and other locales in the vicinity and include images of totem poles, villages and landscapes, her renditions of First Nations design motifs.

Sketch of Indigenous belongings

This sheet of paper includes several sketches of Indigenous belongings from Northwest Coast nations. It includes a Raven's rattle, a hawk rattle, a mask, a hat, a beaver, and other figures.

Clarke, Irwin & Company collection relating to Emily Carr

  • PR-2408
  • Collection
  • 1930-1979

The majority of the records in PR-2408 were created by Clarke Irwin & Company during the course of business activities. At some point they were separated out from the remainder of the company records by Irene and William (Bill) Clarke Junior before the company went into receivership in 1983 and was bought out by another company. Other material, such as newspaper clippings and reviews, were accumulated by the Clarkes out of their friendship and interest to Emily Carr.

The collection consists of correspondence, draft manuscripts, brochures, newspaper clippings, two photographs, and other textual material that was created or collected by William H. Clarke and his family. The records date from 1930 to about 1979.

Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited

Table lamp and shade

A ceramic table lamp with shade made by Emily Carr based on her understanding of Northwest Coast Indigenous crest designs. The base is a beaver, a bird design is painted on the shade, and ceramic killer whales, or orcas, hang from the rim of the shade.

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