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Notebook is bound in black speckled paper- covered boards with cloth backstrip, worn and largely disbound. Addresses on the front free endpaper include that of Albert Barnes. Pages are unlined. A number of rough pencil sketches, most of a cubist nature, are included, and summaries include The aesthetic attitude by Langfeld; the Picabia issue of The little review (Spring 1922); Projective ornament by Claude Bragdon; On a composition by Gauguin by Roger Fry; Dynamic symmetry in composition as used by the artist by Jay Hambidge, etc. Four oiled tracing paper sheets with notes and drawings have been loosely inserted.

Notebook is bound in black speckled paper covered boards with cloth backstrip. A number of notes and printed articles are loosely inserted. The pages are unlined and stitching is loose. Two full-page pencil drawings of a domestic scene and 3 full-page charcoal drawings are included within the book. Inserted items include an article on Georges Seurat by Walter Pach, articles on health and digestion, a list of lectures and demonstrations, brochure for a free concert at the Met. This notebook contains a combination of essay-style reviews and short notes, perhaps from lectures. There are reviews of Modern French painters by Jan Gordon, A primer of modern art by Sheldon Cheney, The science of eating by Alfred W. McCann, and Cezanne by Tristas L. Klingson.

Notebook is bound in black paper-covered boards with a red backstrip. Binding is shaken but intact. The artist’s name and the address 320 Spadina Road, are written onto the front pastedown, along with penciled notes. This notebook contains primarily drawings of patterns and motifs from Indian, Japanese, Greek, Assyrian, Peruvian, Egyptian and primitive art, some drawn on onionskin paper and tipped into the book. Most are pencil drawings with a few in coloured pencil. Decorative borders, flower arrangements, drawings of sculpture and pottery are included.

Notebooks document Munn’s student life in New York City and at the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock. She recorded her lecture notes, essays containing reviews and summaries of books read, notations regarding books of interest, sketches, anatomical drawings, copies of historical works of art, poems, and occasionally ephemera. Under the tutelage of her teachers at the Art Students League – Andrew Dasburg, Max Weber, A.S. Baylinson, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Henry L. McFee, she embraced modernism and gained exposure to literary, artistic and musical influences of her day. The notebooks show her to be an avid reader with a keen interest in the intellectual life of her time and in the artistic expression of other cultures and epochs. There is a particular delight in pattern and an underlying search for explanation and order. On the front pastedown of Notebook No. 8 she wrote, “Perfect beauty is the expression of perfect order, balance, harmony, rhythm. Beauty is a supreme instance of order intuitively felt, instinctively appreciated”. The notebooks are undated, with the exception of No. 5.

File contains drawings on paper in pencil, charcoal and brush that contain studies of individuals.

File contains drawings removed from a small sketchbook containing coloured pencil studies of elderly figures seated on park benches. One sheet contains drawings on the verso.

File contains 15 leaves removed from books including plates of models and statuary. Also included are 3 leaves, probably from an art periodical, on Munsell

File contains 4 prints, including 2 prints from the same plate on different papers (12.5 x 10 cm

27 designs in pencil on paper and 1 stencil cut in heavy paper. The designs include borders, corner designs, book covers, etc. The verso of one sheet contains the first page of an undated draft letter in Kathleen Munn’s hand to her mother evidently en route to Buffalo and Boston in which she mentions a visit to Elbert Hubbard’s studio in East Aurora NY, and a scheme to make money.

File contains pencil drawings on oiled tracing paper mounted on larger sheets of paper, probably containing copies from a text. Subjects include classical figures and anatomical studies of feet, eyes, various bones, muscles and joints, ears, faces, etc.