Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

Emily Carr, aged 39, returned for her second trip to Europe in 1910 and spent 16 months working and living in France. By that time, Carr had been painting seriously for about 20 years. She had studied in San Francisco and in England, and she had started travelling to and painting Indigenous communities on Vancouver Island. Read more: Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing and the Birth of a Modern Vision…

The Island Arts and Crafts Society in Victoria, BC, formed in 1909, played a pivotal role in shaping the region’s cultural landscape, particularly with its groundbreaking 1932 exhibition. One of the most memorable aspects of this event was the inclusion of the “Modern Room,” a space dedicated to showcasing for the first time ‘modern art’ in Victoria, a radical departure from the more traditional works that dominated at the time.

Paintings by Emily Carr received international attention for the first time in one of the biggest and most influential art exhibitions in the world. In an unprecedented event for a Canadian painter, seven oil on canvas paintings by Carr from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s collection were included at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany in 2012. During its 100-day run dOCUMENTA attracted more than 750,000 people who paid to see works by more than…