RBCM Archives

The Town Clock

PDP05903
Item
1901 - 1902

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in sketchbook. Image depicts female figure with arms stretched out against the wind.

Life drawing of a Male

PDP10332
Item
12 Oct.1893

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

Item consists of a charcoal sketch of the head of an unidentified man dated October 12, 1893 by Sophia Pemberton. This was undertaken in life class while she was attending the Westminster School of Art in England.

Portrait of a Cardinal

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

Item consists of a charcoal portrait of a man wearing clerical garb. Cardinal by Sophia Pemberton, 1890. The sketch was undertaken while she was attending the Cope School of Art, London England.

Black-bound sketchbook "B"

PDP05988
Series
1904

Part of Emily Carr art collection

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.

Boy with Hands in Pockets

PDP05862
Item
1901 - 1902

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in sketchbook.

This is the clock. To tell her the time....

PDP06126
Item
[1901-1904]

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in series.

Olsen's Studio, Wet Day, St. Ives

PDP09017
Item
[1901 or 1902]

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One painting depicting art students, easels, a wood stove and a puppy.

When the world is middling fair; when the world gets one too much

PDP09026
Series
[1899-1902]

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One diptych with captions. Carr has depicted in both as the centre figure alongside two women with whom she must try to get along. This probably dates from her time in England.

Sketch of Beatrice Florence Greenstock and Rose Butcher

PDP10333
Item
22 Jun.1899 and 21 Jul. [1899?]

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

Item consists of two portrait studies on one sheet, of two young girls by Sophia Pemberton. The sketches were undertaken in England and consist of the heads of two people. The upper one is identified as Beatrice Florence Greenstock and dated July 21, ca. 1899, and the lower one is identified as Rose Butcher and dated June 22, 1899.

Sketch of Blind Thomas and Rose Butcher

PDP10334
Item
23 Jun. 1899

Part of Archives paintings, drawings, and prints collection

Item consists of two portrait studies on one sheet, of an old man and a young girl by Sophia Pemberton on June 23,1899. The sketches were undertaken in England and consist of the heads of two people. The upper one is identified as Blind Thomas, and the lower one is identified as Rose Butcher.

Black-bound sketchbook "C"

PDP06128
Series
1902 - 1904

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One sketchbook with 21 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings include figure studies, cartoon drawings and document activities in 1902 at art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. They do not include her 1901 sojourn in Bushey. Some cartoon sketches may convey domestic incidents while boarding in private homes and include incidents concerning her landladies. One sequence appears to date from after her return to Victoria, 1904. There are also a number of poems written by Carr, notes and text that provide context for these and other sketches in the Carr fonds. The sketches include cartoon drafts for other finished works.