Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

Art lovers of every generation eventually fall under the spell of Emily Carr. “Every generation discovers her anew,” said Kerry Mason—an art historian, curator, and educator who devoted 45 years to studying, teaching, and interpreting Carr’s life and work. Mason, who passed away in Victoria in 2023, was among the most influential figures in shaping public understanding of Emily Carr in British Columbia and beyond. Her legacy continues to resonate. Read…

Sophie Pemberton (1869-1959) and Emily Carr (1871-1945) are often mentioned together as early professional women artists from Victoria, yet their relationship is best understood not as a close friendship, but as a series of parallel trajectories shaped by the same place, the same small artistic community, and profoundly different temperaments and circumstances. Read more: Kerry Mason: Emily Carr Teacher, Author & Curator Their lives overlapped repeatedly—sometimes directly, sometimes obliquely—and taken…

In the British Columbia Archives at Victoria are one hundred and twenty-three pictures by Emily Carr, in pen, pencil, charcoal, watercolour and oils. These formed part of the valuable collection of Indian art and natural history which belonged to the late William Arnold Newcombe, biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist of Victoria, who died suddenly in November 1960. His collection also embraced that of his father, Dr C. F. Newcombe, a noted expert on natural history…