Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

The Audain Art Museum announced the acquisition of an exceptional historical watercolour painting by Emily Carr from Vancouver’s Heffel Fine Art Auction House. Held for many years in private collections, War Canoes, Alert Bay, circa 1908, was unveiled alongside another painting of the same name at a ceremony in Vancouver on Oct. 16, 2024. Emily Carr, ‘War Canoes, Alert Bay’, circa 1908, watercolour on paper, Audain Art Museum Collection The newly acquired…

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 evening achieved impressive total sales of $13,416,975 million (all prices are in Canadian dollars and include a 17 per cent buyer’s premium). Leading the evening…

From 1916 to 1930 when Emily Carr struggled to make a living from her art, she turned to an unlikely but deeply creative form of work—rug hooking. Living in her boarding house in Victoria, the House of All Sorts, while running a boarding house, Emily designed and produced hooked rugs to support herself through difficult financial years. What began as “breadwork,” as she called it, became another outlet for her restless imagination. Her rugs transformed wool,…