Inventory # A07S-E04634-001

PROVENANCE
Studio of the Artist
Acquired at the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition by Dr. Ethlyn Trapp, Vancouver, November, 1940
By descent to Dr. William Trapp (nephew of Dr. Ethlyn Trapp), British Columbia
By descent from the above to a Private Collection, Vancouver
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 23, 2007, lot 170
Private Collection, USA
Sold by Private Sale, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, 2015
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Letters between Emily Carr and Ethlyn Trapp, British Columbia Archives, Parnell Collection, MS2763:420-427, box 4, folder 61, containing seven letters written between 1940 and 1943
Vancouver Art Gallery Archives, Emily Carr (Memorial) Exhibition - Loaned Paintings - B.C. Owners, borrowed locally - #9, Roll of Life, Dr. Ethlyn Trapp, Vancouver
Vancouver Art Gallery Archives, Emily Carr Exhibitions: 1938 - 1943, titles of pictures sold by the Gallery – 1940, Roll of Life, $50.00, Dr. E. Trapp
Emily Carr Memorial Exhibition, Art Gallery Bulletin, volume 13, no. 9, May 1946
Vancouver Art Gallery List of Exhibitions Log Book: 1946 - 1947, Emily Carr Memorial Exhibition 697 (locally loaned works)
Doris Shadbolt Fonds, UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, RBSC-ARC 1492, box 12, file 34, photo #87, Emily Carr catalogue raisonné research files from 1968, Roll of Life owner listed as Dr. Ethlyn Trapp, West Vancouver

EXHIBITED
Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr Solo Exhibition, November 5 - 17, 1940, catalogue #20
Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr Memorial Exhibition, May 1 - 26, 1946, catalogue #9
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, British Columbia, displayed with permanent Emily Carr collection on loan, September 3, 2018 - June 15, 2021

Literature continued:

Doris Shadbolt Fonds, box 23, file 16, Solo Exhibitions During Carr’s Lifetime (contains the 1940 numbered list of works for Emily Carr, Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition) - Exhibitions by Emily Carr (Victoria, BC) – 20, Roll of Life, 50.00

Doreen Walker, Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, 1990, various pages with references to Ethlyn Trapp

David Alexander and John O’Brian, Gasoline, Oil and Paper: The 1930’s Oil-On-Paper Paintings of Emily Carr, Mendel Art Gallery, 1995

Linda M. Morra, editor, Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr & Ira Dilworth, 2006, various pages with references to Ethlyn Trapp

Stewart Jackson, A Life Not Chosen: The Story of Ethlyn Trapp and Her Father, 2009, pages 86 - 89

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