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Institutional and business correspondence

Series comprises correspondence and other records dating from between 1936 and 1971 pertaining to F.H. Varley’s career as an artist, to awards and exhibitions and to his involvement with the book Eskimo by Edmund Carpenter (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1959). Included are extensive financial records (1954–1971) of sales of Varley’s works from Roberts Gallery in Toronto.

Tom Thomson sketches correspondence

Series comprises photocopies of correspondence between Mrs Frank Cooper and the Art Gallery of Toronto regarding the purchase by J.S. McLean of the painting Round Lake, Mud Bay (1915) by Tom Thomson.

McLean, James Stanley

Page layouts for Maria Chapdelaine

Series comprises a volume (booklet) of page layouts made in Toronto in 1937 by Thoreau MacDonald for his illustrated edition of an English translation of Louis Hémon’s Maria Chapdelaine: récit du Canada français (Paris : Bernard Grasset, 1921). On p. [2] of the booklet is a note written by MacDonald describing his concept for the illustrations and the planned number of drawings.

Macdonald, Thoreau

Series 1: Career scrapbooks and publicity material

Series consists of scrapbooks and photo albums created by K.M. Graham between 1967 and 1990 that document her career. The majority of scrapbooks in this series are organized chronologically and by exhibition. Series also comprises additional publicity material related to K.M. Graham, including further newspaper clippings, magazine articles, exhibition invitations, interview transcripts, photographs, CVs, and her published works.

Kathleen McKay correspondence

Series comprises personal correspondence to F.H. Varley’s companion Kathleen McKay from his friends and family as well as business correspondence from public and private art galleries, law firms and others, largely dealing with Varley and his works. Also included are letters from her to Varley early in their friendship. File titles are from original folders.

Scrapbooks

Series comprises newspaper and magazine clippings on Jack Bush and his paintings assembled by the artist throughout his career and supplemented by his family following his death in 1977, with handwritten notebook pages of lists of Bush’s paintings, some with thumbnail sketches.

Bush, Jack

Series 11: Posters

Series comprises 5 posters and one watercolour drawing by Blanche Howitt, K.M. Graham’s mother.

Research files

Series comprises of research material compiled by Ron Graham in preparation for the biographical essay “Twenty-Four Sketches for a Portrait of Paterson Ewen.” The essay was published in the catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition Paterson Ewen: Earthly Weather/Heavenly Skies, ed. by Matthew Teitelbaum and co-published by the AGO and Douglas & McIntyre in 1996. Series consists of photographs and photocopies of photographs, interview transcripts, essays, newspaper articles, exhibition related files, and other miscellaneous research material.

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