Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

Doris Shadbolt (November 28, 1918 – December 22, 2003) occupies a distinctive place in the history of Emily Carr. She did not know Carr personally—Carr died in 1945, the same year Shadbolt moved to Vancouver—but over the next three decades Shadbolt became one of the people most responsible for shaping how Carr’s art was understood, exhibited and written about. Her relationship with Carr was therefore not one of friendship or personal acquaintance,…

The relationship between Max Stern and E. J. Hughes was one of the most consequential dealer–artist partnerships in Canadian art. Stern did much more than sell Hughes’s paintings like he did for Emily Carr. Instead he provided Hughes with the unusual security that allowed him to remain a private, almost reclusive artist on Vancouver Island while Stern built his reputation nationally. Read more: Doris Shadbolt and Emily Carr:…

Max Stern (1904–1987) was one of the most influential art dealers in Canadian history, but his path to Montreal and his relationship with Emily Carr were shaped by forces far beyond the Canadian art world. A German-born art historian, refugee from Nazism, collector, dealer and champion of modern art, Stern arrived in Canada after nearly two years of internment during the Second World War. Within a few years, he had transformed Montreal’s…