Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms

Walker, Doreen

ISBN 10: 0774803487 / ISBN 13: 9780774803489

Published by UBC Press, 1990

About this Item

Gentle bumps on board corners. Faint soiling on page edge.

Seller Inventory # 001517

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774803487
• ISBN 13: 9780774803489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

About this title

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.