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Lawren Harris

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

My first impression of Lawren Harris, his work, his studio have never changed, never faltered. His work and example did more to influence my outlook upon Art than any school or any master. They had given me mechanical foundation. Lawren Harris looked higher, dug deeper. He did not seek…

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New York

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

“Why not?” Mr. Harris said and closed the book of New York’s splendours he had been showing me, photographs of the gigantic wonders, her skyscrapers, bridges, stations, elevated railways. “Why not see New York now, while you are on this side of the continent? It is only a step…

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Rejected

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

I came home from France stronger in body, in thinking, and in work than I had returned from England. My seeing had broadened. I was better equipped both for teaching and study because of my year and a half in France, but still mystified, baffled as to how to…

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