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File includes party invitations and Christmas cards, Panton

Series contains posthumous and other material that does not fit into Panton’s file categories. Files relate to exhibitions of his work, including posthumous exhibitions, personal material including party invitations and home-made Christmas cards, qualifications certificates relating to his teaching career and his RCA induction certificate, obituaries and other material collected around the time of his death, his passport, four small caricatures, and the layout for an unpublished book.

Notebook is bound in worn limp red leather and contains lined pages. Many of the entries are dated. Contains summaries of books on aesthetics, with occasional quick pencil sketches. Books read include Burnett on painting; Design, the making of patterns; Paul Cezanne his life and art by Vollard; The painter’s palette by Denman Ross; Clive Bell’s Art; Sir Joshua Reynold’s Discourses with Roger Fry’s introduction, and entries on ‘negro art’, theosophy and a number of artists including Brancusi, Seurat and others. Two leaves have been fully removed and one sheet has been partially removed.

File contains 3 magazine covers by John Held Jr (1889-1958) that include 2 covers not mounted in mats from Vanity fair, Oct. 1919 and June 1920 and 1 matted cover from Vanity fair, Nov. 1919.

File contains 5 magazine covers by Harriet A. Meserole (1893-1989) from Vogue, 1919-1924.

Fonds consists of Art Directors Club, Toronto official records, correspondence, records of club meetings, committee reports, membership records, exhibitions and awards dinner records, and other material.

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

Fonds consists of drawings and sketchbooks, working notes and storyboards for Chambers’ films, aesthetic and philosophical writings, source photographs for artworks, personal photographs and objects, professional correspondence, transcriptions of interviews with the artist, critical reviews, material relating to posthumous exhibitions, financial records, personal correspondence on the artist’s health problems, files relating to Canadian Artists’ Representation, works by other artists, and a collection of books. Fonds consists of the following series: Correspondence Interview transcriptions Publicity material Critical articles Exhibition files Grant applications Canadian Artists’ Representation files Financial records Jack Chambers Memorial Foundation files Signatures of the artist Film projects Writings “Red and Green” manuscript Miscellaneous Personal effects Secondary school records Honours Drawings and sketchbooks Works by other artists Photographs and secondary images Secondary publications

Series contains preparatory pencil drawings for ‘The Passion’ series. Munn commonly used both sides of her sheets of paper and the numbers given are for the number of pages. Some contain a brief notation or number. She apparently combined and rearranged the small drawings; some are pasted composites, and others contain pin-holes. Most sheets contain a single figure with variations in stance, usually involving points or dots, suggesting that she was using an angle to work out geometrical structure. The sheer quantity indicates the extraordinary effort involved in the creation of her final drawings. Series also contains 1 ink and brush drawing, and one charcoal drawing. None are dated.

File contains 2 magazine covers by Nicolai Remisoff (1877-1975), 1 not mounted in a mat from Vanity fair, June 1922 and 1 matted cover from Vanity fair, Mar. 1923.