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View all 45 artworks. Emily Carr lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of Canadian Post-Impressionism and Modernism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Carr's keynote paintings, such as The Indian Church (1929), were not widely known in Canada at first. But her stature as one of Canada's most important artists continued to grow. Today, she is considered a cherished figure of Canadian arts and letters. [4] .
Emily Carr was a painter and writer whose lifelong inspiration was the coastal environment of British Columbia. Her later paintings of the vast Canadian West Coast sky and monumental trees, with their sweeping brushstrokes, demonstrate her continued desire to paint in a "big" way that she felt was in keeping with the expansiveness of her ...
The Royal BC Museum’s collection includes over 100 impressive paintings and a treasure trove of 1000 sketches and handicrafts—diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters and manuscripts—making up the world’s largest collection of Emily Carr materials, one which spans her entire career.
Emily Carr is a Canadian icon and national heroine, known for putting the wild Western Canadian landscape and its indigenous inhabitants on the global map through paintings and writings that intimately displayed the country's interior environments and its First Nation peoples.
Jun 1, 2019 · The Vancouver Art Gallery is home to the finest collection of art by Emily Carr (1871–1945) in the world, and the collection is particularly rich in her forest paintings from the 1930s.
It included 67 works by Carr and some of her Paris contemporaries and was reportedly the largest ever exhibition of Carr’s Paris paintings. Also in 2020, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in New Brunswick showcased more than 50 of Carr’s paintings.
