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The fonds consists of exhibition lists; manuscripts of articles, lectures, radio broadcasts, and a book; correspondence; art education pamphlets; materials related to a National Film Board production about the artist; papers about other artists; memorabilia from the Arts and Letters Club, Toronto; photographs and papers relating to Tom Thomson; and a source book on Arthur Lismer prepared by Marjorie Lismer Bridges.

Item is a manuscript essay by Lismer about Canadian painter and associate of the Group of Seven Tom Thomson (1877-
1917), probably written shortly after Thomson’s death. Title taken from cover of item.

File contains two versions of the story outline for the documentary film Lismer (National Film Board, 1951) by Allan Wargon and a mimeograph copy of the shooting script. The file also includes photocopies of National Film Board correspondence to Lismer from Allan Wargon and others, possibly made in the 1970s.

File contains an offprint of an article in Canadian Affairs (1944) by Canadian painter Barker Fairley; and other material.

Item is a copy of Hokusai by C.J. Holmes (London: Unicorn Press, 1899) inscribed "A. Lismer," with pen sketches by Lismer on the title page and back endpaper.

Item is a commonplace book inscribed on the front endpaper "Notes: various / C.M. Manly, Toronto" (British Canadian artist Charles MacDonald Manly, 1855

File contains correspondence to Arthur Lismer in Toronto and elsewhere from the Director of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Eric Brown, his assistant H.O. (Harry Orr) McCurry and others between 1920 and 1956. The letters, some including pencil sketches, discuss Lismer

File contains manuscript correspondence of Lismer to Eric Brown, officials at the Ontario College of Art, and others, largely unfinished and unsent, on art education and other subjects.

Series comprises lists of Arthur Lismer’s paintings exhibited in commercial galleries in Canada in the 1930s to 1950s, and the Art Gallery of Toronto Lismer retrospective of 1950; with correspondence regarding a planned exhibition of the work of British art students in 1922, a show of Lismer’s paintings in the Eaton’s department store in Toronto in 1946, and the 1950 Lismer retrospective.

File contains correspondence between Lismer, art consultant Robert Martin (London, England) and representatives of art schools and institutions in Canada regarding a proposed travelling exhibition of artworks by students in art schools in Britain in 1922.