Monday, August 23, 2010

EARTH ~ EMILY CARR
















All her life Emily Carr lived by the seat of her pants (1871-1945) this Canadian icon. Painter, writer, explorer, lover of the indigenous tribes & folk of the Pacific Northwest coast all the way to Alaska, which is portrayed in her many paintings of natives, nature & woodlands. Much of her mature and enduring work occured after the age of 57. A late bloomer for sure. She ran a boarding house for fifteen years before that, barely picking up her brushes. And then there was the love for her dogs. For every O'Keeffe one is shown, a Marsden Hartley and Emily Carr must be requested and embraced.









emily carr age 21


PUBLISHED WORKS ~

Klee Wyck (1941) encounters w/ Aborginal culture
The Book of Small (1942) childhood in Victoria
The House of All Sorts (1944) keeping a boarding house and breeding her beloved dogs
Growing Pains (1946) Emily Carr's autobiography

Many many posthumous works published, journals, biographies and letters not to be missed!





























acknowledgements:
calgary.cityguide.ca/emily-carr-lecture-at-th...

jaksview3.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/the-vag-today

www.emilycarr.com/store/product.php?productid...

grave monument: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emily_carr_2.jpg

joyner.waddingtons.ca/.../highlights-nov-1990/

emily carr photo: particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/bios/Carr.html

young emily carr photo: www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/EmilyCarr/en...
www.artcountrycanada.com/group-of-seven-carr-...

judsonjournal.blogspot.com/2009/11/emily-carr...