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.
Tom Thomson clippings and photographs
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.
Bridges, Marjorie Lismer
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.
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.
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.
Lismer, Arthur
File contains largely unfinished manuscript notes by Lismer on various art subjects, including “Calder” and ‘The meaning of beauty.”
File contains a manuscript essay (3 leaves) by Lismer entitled “A memorable meal,” with a small pen sketch. The file also includes photocopies (probably made in the 1970s or ‘80s) of typescripts of Lismer’s lectures and radio talks.
File contains galley sheets for an article by Lismer entitled “Canadian painting of today” dated 1929. The file also includes photocopies (probably made in the 1970s or ‘80s) of typed transcripts of Lismer’s lectures and articles chiefly from the 1920s and ‘30s.
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 a manuscript essay by Arthur Lismer entitled "The appreciation of pictures"; typescript or carbon copies of "Letters to African teachers of Bechuanaland," and "Suggestions for a proposed syllabus for the teaching of art in [South African] native schools"; and a mimeograph copy of five chapters of "The teaching of art in normal primary & secondary schools [in the Transvaal]."