Heffel Fine Art Auction House celebrated the best in Canadian art with its much anticipated fall auction, held at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Toronto in 2012.. With 137 lots and hundreds of buyers – either present at the hotel, watching live online or bidding by phone – the…
In Emily Carr’s Victoria, Christmas evolved from a modest religious observance into the warm, family-centered celebration many people recognize today. Influenced by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who popularized the decorated Christmas tree in Britain, households began adorning trees with candles, oranges, sweets, and handmade ornaments. Traditions such as singing…
Emily Carr’s lifelong search for a language big enough to hold the forests and skies of the West Coast found an important companion in the poetry of Walt Whitman. Whitman’s expansive voice — bodily, earthy, mystical, and democratic — offered Carr a model for speaking of nature as alive…
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