Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

An educator, broadcaster, editor and devoted friend, Ira Dilworth helped Emily Carr discover a second career as a writer. Their relationship, which developed during the final five years of her life, was one of the most important personal and professional friendships of her later years. But Dilworth’s contribution to the arts and Emily Carr’s legacy did not end with her death. As her literary executor, he became the person responsible for bringing…

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: Ira Dilworth and Emily Carr:…