Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
Language: English
Published by University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1990
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xlvi, [20], 436pp w appendix and index. Textured grey boards w crisp white lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ is clean showing light bumping to top corners, preserved now in archival cover. Octavo.
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- Title
- Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
- Author
- Walker, Doreen (ed)
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Dust jacket
- Very Good +
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0774803487
- ISBN 13
- 9780774803489
- Edition
- First Canadian Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Biography and Memoirs
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.
Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms shared Emily Carr's interest in art. Carr's relationship with Cheney dated back to 1930 but did not flourish until 1937 when Cheney moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to become the first full-time medical artist at UBC. Humphrey Toms was only twenty years old when he first met Emily Carr, having asked to visit her after seeing some of her paintings, following which a warm friendship developed.
The correspondence between Cheney and Toms reveals how Carr was regarded at the time and attests to their mutual interest in the Vancouver art scene. As an active member Cheney relates gossip about the local art community, providing a very personal and often exceedingly critical view of the Vancouver art milieu of the time.
Doreen Walker has chosen not to change the original text of the letters and includes Carr's misspellings and grammatical irregularities, which give a feeling of immediacy to the writing. There are numerous examples of her talent for graphic description, how she felt "rag rug level" when depressed and how she "was sat down with a spank" when ill. Perhaps most significant are the many revelations of her deep commitment to her work and of her industry and perseverance despite her failing health. "Queer how we go on," she wrote to Cheney, "luck there is so much rubber in human composition."
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