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75 pages of drawings inserted into an Aircraft Bond cover

26 pages of drawings inserted into a Wellington Bond cover

5 studies for “The Passion”: Untitled (Passion Series study), [ca- 1930-34]; Untitled (Passion Series study), [ca- 1930-34]; Untitled (Passion Series study), [ca- 1930-34]; Untitled (Passion Series study), [ca- 1930-34]; Untitled (Crucifixion study), [ca- 1933]

Cloth covered burgundy notebook, untitled, with lined sheets, filled with writing as above. The latter part of the book contains discussions of European cities - London, Munich, Berlin, Cracow - visited during Munn’s European tour in 1920. Other entries include discussions of Denman Ross’ theories of colour and design, architecture of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Renaissance, Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic, entries on Nietzsche and Gaudier-Brzeska, Japanese flower arrangement. They show that she was aware of Blast, the Vorticists, Kandinsky, and other modern painters and musicians. Notes and drawings on perspective are included, and a discussion of “Science and art drawing” by J. Humphrey Spanton. Two leaves have been torn out.

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.

20 pages inserted in a card folder for Hamilton watches with a hand-lettered date of 1939

10 pages in an Aircraft Bond typewriter tablet cover

41 pages from a group of 84 drawings and notes (#1)

43 pages from a group of 84 drawings and notes (#2)

33 pages of drawings inserted into an Aircraft Bond typewriter tablet cover