In many cities around the world, the homes of famous artists and writers are saved and cherished. The artist Frida Kahlo’s “Blue House” in Mexico City, for example, is now a museum open to the public. As is Claude Monet’s home and garden in Giverny, France. In Victoria, Canada, you can visit Carr House, the birthplace and childhood home of beloved artist, Emily Carr, who painted scenes of Indigenous villages and the wild forests of…

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The bronze Emily Carr sculpture created by Edmonton sculptor Barbara Patterson installed outside the Empress Hotel in Victoria in 2010 is not the first statue created in her honour. That distinction belongs to Joe Fafard—a celebrated Saskatchewan artist and longtime admirer of Carr’s work. By then, he had created two different versions of Emily Carr sculptures, one of Emily on her horse in 2003 and another in 2005 with her off her horse with…

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The Vancouver Art Gallery will open That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature, its largest presentation of the work of Emily Carr (1871–1945, Victoria, B.C.) in more than two decades in February 2026. Overlooked in her own time, Carr is now recognized as one of Canada’s most important artists, whose distinctive modernist vision has profoundly shaped how British Columbia’s landscape is perceived, understood and represented. That Green Ideal features work primarily…

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