Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

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: Emily Carr, Her…

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…

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…