Dear Nan Letters of Emily Carr Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms

Walker, Doreen (edited By)

ISBN 10: 0774803908 / ISBN 13: 9780774803908

Published by UBC Press, Vancouver, 1991

About this Item

"Here we get the inimitable revelation of the practical everyday and earthy Emily, the naturally domestic woman who loves 'houses and gardens and home things,' the irrepressible comic who sees things naturally in terms of amusing homey metaphor." quote from Doris Shadbolt author of biography of Emily Carr 437 pages; 6 x 9 ".

Seller Inventory # 12026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear Nan Letters of Emily Carr Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms
• Publisher: UBC Press, Vancouver
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774803908
• ISBN 13: 9780774803908
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

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. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr’s career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting – “the biggest thing in my life.” There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience with critics and poseurs, and they give insights into her various relationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, Jack Shadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and Arthur Lismer.

About the Author

Doreen Walker  is a senior instructor emerita of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia.