In the summer of 1907, Emily Carr and her sister Alice set out on an adventurous three week holiday to Alaska—a journey that would have a major impact on Emily’s life and art. The pair left from Seattle on August 18th, 1907, on the cruise ship ‘S.S. Princess Royal’…
When one thinks of Emily Carr, images of towering British Columbia forests, brooding skies, and bold totem poles rendered in expressive brushwork come to mind. But nestled between her early frustrations as a painter and her later recognition as a major Canadian modernist lies a lesser-known, yet deeply telling…
On October 1935, Emily Carr stood before the students and faculty at Victoria’s Normal School, delivering her speech “Something Plus in a Work of Art.” She confessed in her journal that she had spent a week preparing and, despite feeling steady rather than nervous, she felt the audience of…
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