The 1971 Centennial Exhibition of Emily Carr was a particularly important exhibition in the history of Carr scholarship and in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s presentation of her work. It was much more than a commemorative birthday exhibition: it helped establish the framework through which Carr was understood…
Beginning around 1932, Carr largely abandoned traditional watercolour for her field studies. Instead, she began using oil paint (and sometimes house paint) thinned with gasoline on manilla paper, creating a medium that combined the fluidity of watercolour with the rich colour and permanence of oil. This technique…
Doris Shadbolt (November 28, 1918 – December 22, 2003) occupies a distinctive place in the history of Emily Carr. She did not know Carr personally—Carr died in 1945, the same year Shadbolt moved to Vancouver—but over the next three decades Shadbolt became one of the people most…
hosted, designed & maintained by Marilyn Jones for the walks & talks, bus tours and presentations she offers on Emily Carr in-person and online from Victoria, BC.
