An educator, broadcaster, editor and devoted friend, Ira Dilworth helped Emily Carr discover a second career as a writer. Their relationship, which developed during the final five years of her life, was one of the most important personal and professional friendships of her later years. But Dilworth’s…
Author: Marilyn Jones
Emily Carr’s art was deeply rooted in the landscapes, forests, and Indigenous cultures of British Columbia, yet her artistic language was shaped by ideas that reached far beyond Canada. Among these influences was the art of Japanese woodblock printing. Japanese woodblock prints offered Carr a new way…
The story of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) up to its initial purchase of three Emily Carr watercolours in 1928 is especially interesting because Carr’s acquisition came at a moment when the Gallery was changing from a relatively small, government-administered collection into an institution with a…
