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Series comprises a source book on Arthur Lismer written by his daughter Marjorie Lismer Bridges and screenplay materials for a National Film Board of Canada production on Lismer’s work.

Item is a book-length compendium of information about Arthur Lismer assembled by his daughter Marjorie Lismer Bridges, including a biographical recollection, bibliographies and a chronology of his life.

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.

Series comprises photographs of Arthur Lismer's friend and fellow painter Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and places where they sketched landscapes together; clippings from the 1940s and '50s about Thomson; and some Thomson ephemera.

File contains a studio portrait ([1907]) of Tom Thomson; a photo (dated 1914) of Thomson with Lismer in a canoe (4 copies, one a detail); four photos (dated 1923) of lakes in Algonquin Park, Ont.; photos of the Tom Thomson Memorial Cairn (Canoe Lake, Ont.); and other photos. Most are annotated on verso.

File contains a notice of the 1926 unveiling of Tom Thomson's painting The Drive at the Ontario Agricultural College (Guelph, Ont.), at which Arthur Lismer was principal speaker; an annotated picture postcard entitled "The Old School House Leith, Ontario," where Thomson went to school; clippings (1946-1956) from Canadian serials about Tom Thomson; a notice of an exhibition (1969) of Thomson paintings at the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery (Owen Sound, Ont.). The file also includes a photocopy of a letter to Marjorie Lismer Bridges (1973) about a photo of her father with Tom Thomson; and a photocopy of an article in The Studio (1919) about Thomson, both probably made in the 1970s.

Series comprises some of Arthur Lismer’s collection of materials on teaching art to children; memorabilia from his membership in the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto including some pen sketches; offprints of articles by his friend Marius Barbeau; a published book in which Lismer drew sketches; and a commonplace book once apparently belonging to Canadian artist Charles MacDonald Manly.

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

File contains art education booklets from Arthur Lismer's collection entitled Drawing (Toronto : Ontario Dept. of Education, 1927) (Art bulletin ; no 2), and Art Education (London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1946) (Ministry of Education pamphlet ; no. 6).

File contains offprints of articles by Canadian ethnographer and folklorist Marius Barbeau (1883-1969) from The Scientific Monthly (1942), The Geographical Review (1945) and other periodicals, with autograph dedications to Arthur Lismer.