Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

Beginning around 1932, Carr largely abandoned traditional watercolour for her field studies. Instead, she began using oil paint (and sometimes house paint) thinned with gasoline on manilla paper, creating a medium that combined the fluidity of watercolour with the rich colour and permanence of oil. This technique became central to many of her finest forest paintings of the 1930s. Read more: Why Emily Carr Kept a Can of…

Emily Carr is often described as an early environmentalist. She did not campaign for conservation in the modern political sense, nor was she involved in environmental organizations. Through her writings, paintings, and personal observations, she expressed a deep concern about humanity’s impact on forests, Indigenous villages, and the natural world. Her work anticipated many ideas that later became central to the environmental movement. Read more: Why Emily Carr…

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…