Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape invites viewers into Emily Carr’s haunting interplay between enclosure and horizon. More than 20 of her signature forest paintings dominate one wall in dense succession, creating an almost tactile mist of foliage and trunks that deliberately resists entry. Opposite, a single work depicting a clear‑cut landscape stretches toward an open horizon, offering contrast—a moment of visual space that recalls Carr’s own spiritual longings. The curatorial design accentuates the…

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In 1933, after years of dreaming of owning one, Emily Carr purchased a small travel trailer that would change the rhythm of her creative life.  To Carr, it was more than just a vehicle—it was liberation. She spotted the travel trailer with a for sale sign posted to it. A small canvas topped , metal trailer that was a bit worse for wear. It became more of a personage than a thing that she…

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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 the Royal Family and the Chain Gang.” The young Emily, who gave herself the nickname “Small,” was an intense, observant and sensitive yet rebellious child, who…

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