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File contains lists of paintings in exhibitions of Arthur Lismer’s work at commercial galleries between 1935 and 1958 including J. Merritt Malloney (Toronto), W. Scott (Montreal), T. Eaton Co. Fine Arts (Toronto), Les Amis de l’Art (Montreal), and others. Some leaves have pen or pencil sketches on verso.

File contains correspondence to Lismer in Montreal from Sydney Key, curator at the Art Gallery of Toronto regarding the exhibition Arthur Lismer: Paintings 1913-1949 at the gallery in January-February 1950, with a manuscript letter to Sydney Key in Lismer’s hand (not sent); lists of paintings and a diagram of an installation; with an annotated proof of the catalogue for the exhibition. Some leaves have pen or pencil sketches.

File contains a notice of the 1926 unveiling of Tom Thomson's painting The Drive at the Ontario Agricultural College (Guelph, Ont.), at which Arthur Lismer was principal speaker; an annotated picture postcard entitled "The Old School House Leith, Ontario," where Thomson went to school; clippings (1946-1956) from Canadian serials about Tom Thomson; a notice of an exhibition (1969) of Thomson paintings at the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery (Owen Sound, Ont.). The file also includes a photocopy of a letter to Marjorie Lismer Bridges (1973) about a photo of her father with Tom Thomson; and a photocopy of an article in The Studio (1919) about Thomson, both probably made in the 1970s.

File contains 50th (1958) and 60th (1968) anniversary commemorative booklets of the Arts and Letters Club (Toronto); sheets (2) with pen sketches by Lismer on verso of song lyrics; and a play programme (1911).

File contains correspondence to Lismer in South Africa, New York and Montreal from then-president of the Art Gallery of Toronto Charles Shaw Band in Toronto, between 1936 and 1949, commenting on events and committee affairs at the Gallery. The file also includes correspondence (1949–1950) from Harry Southam regarding Lismer’s canvas Sombre Isle.