Bob the P -

Arthur Lismer ArtCylcopeda search shows a lot of fine stuff. I'm assuming this is the right "beloved Arthur Lismer."

The National Gallery of Canada link at the above search page shows "many (146) works online" and is impressive, but I don't spot any with obvious "folklore" ties.

The Dalhousie University also lists 14 works with similar range of subjects.

The accessible works seem to be mostly from his landscape stuff, which would be expected based on his "Group of Seven" association. The Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery near the bottom of the search page does indicate that he was much into "children's art" in his teaching, and he may have done "folkish" stuff in that connection. No illustrations of that sort found thus far though.

The link to notes on the Exhibition provides a lot of artist names to look up.

Bard J –

The Bodleian and G.W. Wharton connections are good. I'll have to spend some time poking around those.

Book covers often are great illustrations, but the artists are so seldom acknowledged that it makes research rather difficult. I'm not discounting the value – just saying it will take a lot of searching to make good associations of the kind I'd like to find.

SWMBO says she knows all of the authors you listed, so maybe I can delegate some research to her – or at least get her to dig out the several books she has so I can look for the artist info in the books themselves.

All good stuff.


John