Emily Carr occupies a complicated, enduring place in Canadian cultural history. Celebrated as a visionary modernist painter and a fiercely original writer, she is also a figure whose life’s work is inseparable from her encounters with Indigenous peoples and cultures of the Northwest Coast. Her relationship to Indigenous communities…
Art lovers of every generation eventually fall under the spell of Emily Carr. “Every generation discovers her anew,” said Kerry Mason—an art historian, curator, and educator who devoted 45 years to studying, teaching, and interpreting Carr’s life and work. Mason, who passed away in Victoria in 2023, was among…
Sophie Pemberton (1869-1959) and Emily Carr (1871-1945) are often mentioned together as early professional women artists from Victoria, yet their relationship is best understood not as a close friendship, but as a series of parallel trajectories shaped by the same place, the same small artistic community, and profoundly different…
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