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Series comprises Arthur Lismer’s correspondence, chiefly between the 1920s to 1950s, with officials at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa); the Children’s Art Centre at the Art Gallery of Toronto; Charles S. Band, president of the Art Gallery of Toronto; with miscellaneous active (unsent) and passive correspondence; and typed transcripts of some handwritten letters.

Series contains photographs and negatives relating to the personal and private life of L.A.C. Panton. Material includes photographs of family and friends, photographs of his paintings, and photographs on which he based his paintings. The photographs have been arranged by subject matter and size. Very few of the photographs have been labeled or dated.

Series comprises a sketchbook belonging to Arthur George Marx, Suzy Lake’s grandfather, who took art courses at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sketchbook contains graphite and charcoal drawings, and notes on art classes.

Series comprises F.H. Varley’s calendar-agenda books with notations for appointments, addresses and other memoranda. Pages in some items include graphite sketches. Item titles are chiefly from the title pages or covers of the items.

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.

Series comprises photos of Canadian painter George Agnew Reid (Wingham, Ont. 1860–1947 Toronto) and his paintings; correspondence with Helen Kemp Frye; lists of paintings; an essay by the artist and a programme for the 150th anniversary (1957) of Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Toronto.

Series comprises correspondence, receipts, invoices, floor plans, photographs and lists of artworks related to acquiring, exhibiting, maintaining and lending works from the J.S. McLean Collection (at the McLean residence and the offices of Canada Packers), along with art gallery notices, exhibition catalogues, booklets on art subjects and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include Lawren Harris, A.J. Casson, A.Y. Jackson, Paraskeva Clark, Carl Schaefer, Leonard Brooks, Joe Plaskett and Ada Carmichael (wife of Franklin Carmichael).

Series consists of notebooks and diaries in which Greg Curnoe recorded visual and verbal observations and poetry and prose writings from his art college years to his later professional life.

Series comprises photographs of artworks by Hundertwasser, Emily Carr and Raymond Mason, with a booklet on Hundertwasser and an envelope (sender: J. Plaskett).

Series contains published and unpublished material relating to Panton’s personal and professional life, including correspondence, clippings, lectures, notes, reproductions and photocopies. Correspondence relating to his tenure as President of the Ontario Society of Artists is included, during the controversy involving the secession of the Group of Seven and other matters. Among the papers was a list with file designations (see file 1). The first series follows this arrangement.