In the summer of 1907, Emily Carr and her sister Alice set out on an adventurous three week holiday to Alaska—a journey that would have a major impact on Emily’s life and art. The pair left from Seattle on August 18th, 1907, on the cruise ship ‘S.S. Princess Royal’ This would be Carr’s first direct encounter with the Indigenous villages of the Northwest Coast, and it played a formative role in the development of…
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