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Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and other…
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culture · Canadian artist and writer (1871–1945) · painter · autobiographer · writer · ceramicist · artist · also Emily Carr, M. Emily Carr, Emily M. Carr, Klee Wyck, Carr
Born 13 December 1871 · Died 2 March 1945 · Q289624
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Emily Carr Painting Found at Barn Sale Could Sell for $147K
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2023· 1 entry
Carr's Nirvana (oil on paper, mounted on canvas, 35
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2021· 1 entry
And "Tossed by the Wind" for $3,121,250 on June 23, 2021
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2020· 1 entry
A travelling exhibition organized by the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B
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2015· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Canadian Modernist Emily Carr Finally Gets Her Due
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2014· 1 entry
The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London exhibited From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia with a book/catalogue edited by Sarah Milroy and Ian Dejardin
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2013· 1 entry
One of Carr's paintings, The Crazy Stair (The Crooked Staircase), sold for $3
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1994· 1 entry
The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union adopted the name Carr for a crater on Venus
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1991· 1 entry
Canada Post issued a 50¢ stamp 'Forest, British Columbia, Emily Carr, 1931–1932' designed by Pierre-Yves Pelletier based on Forest, British Columbia (1931–1932), also from the Vancouver Art Gallery collection
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1978· 1 entry
Was awarded the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal
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1971· 1 entry
Canada Post issued a 6¢ stamp 'Emily Carr, painter, 1871–1945' designed by William Rueter based on Carr's Big Raven (1931), held by the Vancouver Art Gallery
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1952· 1 entry
Works by Emily Carr along with those of David Milne, Goodridge Roberts and Alfred Pellan represented Canada at the Venice Biennale
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1945· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia (1945).
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At the James Bay Inn in her hometown of Victoria, British Columbia, shortly before she was to have been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of British Columbia
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Died 1945-03-02.
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1942· 1 entry
Carr established the Emily Carr Trust, and donated close to 170 paintings to the Vancouver Art Gallery
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for Klee Wyck (1941).
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Won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today
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1940· 1 entry
Carr suffered serious trouble with her heart, and in 1942 she had another heart attack
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1938· 1 entry
Had her first annual solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery as well as success at the Tate Gallery in London, England
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1937· 1 entry
And another in 1939, forcing her to move in with her sister Alice to recover
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1933· 1 entry
Was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters
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1932· 1 entry
House paint thinned with gasoline on manila paper
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1930· 2 entries
For instance, Carr travelled to New York and met Georgia O'Keeffe
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Exhibited in Ottawa, Victoria and Seattle, and in 1935, Carr's first solo show of her oil on paper works was held in eastern Canada at the Women's Art Association of Canada gallery in Toronto
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1924· 1 entry
And 1925, Carr exhibited at the Artists of the Pacific Northwest shows in Seattle, Washington
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1913· 1 entry
Returned to Victoria, where several of her sisters still lived
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1912· 1 entry
Carr took a sketching trip to First Nations' villages in Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), the Upper Skeena River, and Alert Bay where she documented the art of the Haida, Gitxsan and Tsimshian
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1911· 1 entry
Studied at Académie Colarossi (1910–1911).
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1910· 1 entry
Carr returned to Europe to study
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1907· 1 entry
Carr made a sightseeing trip to Alaska with her sister Alice and decided on her artistic mission of documenting all she could of what she and many others perceived as the "vanishing totems" and way of life of the First N
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1905· 1 entry
Gave children's art classes as well as creating political cartoons for the Week, a newspaper in Victoria and in 1906, Carr took a teaching position in Vancouver at the Vancouver Studio Club and School of Art for a sh
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1902· 1 entry
Returned to Bushey, and studied with Whiteley, till she experienced a nervous breakdown and had to convalesce
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1901· 1 entry
Studied at Westminster School of Art (1899–1901).
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1899· 1 entry
In some ways overcoming her family background, Carr visited Ucluelet on the west coast of Vancouver Island
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1898· 1 entry
At age 27, Carr made the first of several sketching and painting trips to Aboriginal villages
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1890· 1 entry
After her parents' deaths, that Carr pursued her art seriously
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1871· 2 entries
Born 1871-12-13.
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The year British Columbia joined Canada, Emily Carr was the second youngest of nine children born to English parents Richard and Emily (Saunders) Carr
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