A Fairy Playlet

A play written by Doris McCarthy and Marjorie Beer in 1922 about a fairy queen and the queens of flowers. Originally tucked into Doris's journal.

First Light

Draft of a chapter for Doris McCarthy's autobiography "A Fool in Paradise: An Artist's Early Life," including Doris's fifth birthday and the beginning of the First World War.

Painting of unknown house

Watercolour painting & sketch of house by Doris McCarthy.

Marjorie

Draft of a chapter for Doris's autobiography "A Fool in Paradise: An Artist's Early Life."

Childhood

Draft of a chapter for Doris's autobiography "A Fool in Paradise: An Artist's Early Life," covering Doris's childhood up to 1918.

Doris Collection

This collection of digitized papers and correspondence reflect the life and works of Doris McCarthy, Canadian abstract landscape painter and graduate of University of Toronto Scarborough. The Papers of Doris McCarthy Collection is presented in partnership with the Doris McCarthy Gallery at University of Toronto Scarborough, which stewards both a permanent collection of over 200 of her works as well as her accumulated papers.