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Doris McCarthy, 1910-2010

• Born in Calgary, AB and grew up in the Toronto Beaches
• Met Marjorie Beer, her lifelong best friend, in 1920
• Graduated from the Ontario College of Art (1930)
• Supported herself as a practicing artist by teaching at Toronto's Central Technical School (1932-1972)
• First woman president of the Ontario Society of Artists (1964-1967)
• Travelled widely for artistic inspiration, notably to the southeast coast of Quebec and the Canadian north
• Graduated from University of Toronto Scarborough with a BA in English in 1989

The Doris McCarthy fonds

Archival finding aid

• Donated to UTSC by Doris' estate, along with 213 artworks
• 9+ meters of textual records
• 15,000+ photographs, negatives, and slides

The fonds includes:

• Artifacts from Doris' life as an artist
• Architectural drawings for her home, Fool's Paradise (now an Ontario Heritage Trust artists' retreat)
• Both sides of a decades-long correspondence between Doris and Marjorie Beer (1920-1974)
• Diaries written between the ages of 12 and 90
• Drafts of her autobiographical publications
• Donated with the intention that the material would be made available online