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Girl fails to avoid sordid end

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Date:

March 27, 1945

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Box number: 2000782349

Item no. (creator):

167

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

3665121

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Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak fonds

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"W110278" the Personal War Records of Private Lamb, M

Girl fails to avoid sordid end
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Date(s):

March 27, 1945

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 drawing : pen and black ink, watercolour, conté and pencil on wove paper ; 45.6 x 30.5 cm.
Support 45.600 x 30.500 cm

Language of material:

English

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In a series of three sketches, Lamb describes her last day in Toronto before leaving the Army Show for St. Anne de Bellevue.

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Artist: Bobak, Molly Lamb, 1920-2014

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Bobak, Molly Lamb, 1920-2014 : The artist Molly Lamb Bobak was born in Vancouver in 1920, the daughter of Canadian geologist and Secretary of the Canadian Mining Association, Harold Mortimer-Lamb, who was a well-known amateur photographer and art critic, and a friend of many Canadian artists including A.Y. Jackson. Her mother had immigrated to Canada from England and ran a resort on Galiano Island in British Columbia.

Molly Lamb studied at the Vancouver School of Art between 1938 and 1941 under the painter Jack Shadbolt. After joining the CWAC's, she worked on set and costume designs for the Army Show in Toronto. She won third prize at the Canadian Army Art Exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in 1944 and was appointed an official war artist with the Canadian Army 1945-1946. As a war artist she was sent to Holland to paint the aftermath of war. She married fellow Canadian war artist Bruno Bobak in 1945.

After the war, Molly Bobak taught in the Design Department at the Vancouver School of Art and was an instructor at the University of British Columbia 1958-1959. In 1960, Molly Bobak was asked by Air France to lead a tour in Paris; she had also received a Canada Council grant and spent part of the year living and painting in Europe. That same year, she moved to Fredericton to begin teaching at the University of New Brunswick's Art Centre, where she remained until 1967.

Molly Bobak has been a member of the B.C. Society of Artists, Canadian Group of Painters and Canadian Society of Graphic Art, and has exhibited her work across the country. She is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée des Beaux-Arts, and elsewhere. She has received honorary degrees and other awards in recognition of her contributions to Canadian art.

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General note:

set: "W110278" The Personal War Records of Private Lamb, M.", p. 165

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: in pen and black ink, recto, u.r.: MARCH 27 1945.; u.c.: GIRL FAILS TO AVOID SORDID END / DAY OF AGONY AND DESPAIR FOR / FORLORN AND MISERABLE LANCE-CORPORAL. (Partial transcription)
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Private

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1990-255 DAP
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Box [1990-255]

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2000782349 Item no. assigned by LAC 167

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Copy negative [1990-255]

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C-135852 Item no. assigned by LAC 167

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1990-255-167 / Molly Lamb Bobak
Copyright: Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

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