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 telling chapter in her creative life: her pottery work from 1925 to 1932. This short-lived career in ceramics, born of financial desperation and simmering artistic tension,…
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