The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr–four decades later–relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She notes: “There were a great many things that I only half understood, such as saloons and…
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…
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…
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