Emily Carr The story of a remarkable Canadian Artist from British Columbia from British Columbia Created by Mrs. R.M. Anderson

Why was she famous? Had many jobs when most women did not work outside the home Painter Painted remote Native Villages Influenced by the Group of 7 A very strange lifestyle Author

A long time ago Emily grew up in Vancouver. Our street was called Carr Street after my Father. We had a very nice house and a lovely garden... Carr Street was a very fine street. The dirt road waved up and down and in and out. the horses made it that way, zigzagging the carts and carriages through it. The rest of the street was green grass and wild roses. There was a grand, wide open ditch with high grass by the sides. The cows licked in great mouthfuls to chew as they walked up and down to the pasture land at the end of Carr Street down by the beach. In front of our place Father had made a gravel walk but after our trees stopped there were just two planks to walk on." --The Book of Small By Emily Carr Born December 13, Victoria, B.C.

Emily had 4 sisters. They were bossy older sisters! Read about Emily’s Life in the book “Emily” by Susan Gaitskell

Emily learns to draw “ I wanted to draw a dog. I sat beside Carlow's kennel and stared at him for a long time. Then I took a charred stick from the grate, split open a large brown-paper sack and drew a dog on the sack. My married sister who had taken drawing lessons looked at my dog and said, "Not bad." Father spread the drawing on top of his newspaper, put on his spectacles, looked, said, "Um!" Mother said, "You are blacked with charred wood, wash!" The paper sack was found years later among Father's papers. He had written on it, "By Emily, aged eight" First drawing lessons.

As a young Lady Emily went to Art School Death of Emily's mother Death of Emily's father Studying art in San Francisco.

Emily had many different jobs Teaches children's art classes Cartoonist for The Week. Teaching in Victoria. Why didn’t Emily get married like most young ladies did then?

She liked to paint the woods of B.C. Title: Wood Interior Date: 1909 Medium: Watercolour

Emily learned about the French Impressionists Title: French Lace Makers (Women of Brittany Date: 1911Medium: Watercolour and Pencil Studying in France.

She visited remote Native Villages all by herself First trip to Ucluelet (Indian Reserve, west side of Vancouver Island) Six-week trip to Indian villages. Title: House Front-Gold HarbourDate:1912 Title: Skidegate Date: 1912 Medium: Oil

The natives call her “Klee Wyck” which means “the one who laughs” Title: Big Raven Date: 1931 Medium: Oil But Emily was worried that all the native art was fast disappearing. She tried to record it all.

She ran a strange boarding house and had to work hard to make a living Return to Victoria: Hill House (House of All Sorts) established. Her messy studio

She has all sorts of animals including a pet monkey. A painting of Woo She liked to push them around in a baby buggy!

Emily really wanted to be an artist Date: c Medium: Oil

She lived in a caravan and went painting in the woods. Shocking for a lady of those times!

She was worried about what was happening to the forests. Title: Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky Date: 1935 Medium: Oil

Her forests are colourful.

Her skies seem to move! Title: Above the Gravel Pit Date: 1937 Medium: Oil

Title: Abstract Tree Forms Date: 1932 Medium: Oil Location: Vancouver Art Gallery Emily even painted some wild abstract paintings.

Emily became a famous author 1940 Major stroke. Broadcast of Klee Wyck stories on CBC Radio Publication of Klee Wyck – Last sketching trip: serious heart attack. Publication of The Book of Small.

Emily met the famous Group of 7 Canadian Landscape artists Travels to eastern Canada and meets Group of Seven. J.E.H. MacDonald Algoma Waterfall, 1920 She becomes good friends with them And they encourage her.

Finally people started to like her art First heart attack. Very successful solo exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario Very successful solo exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery. Emily’s work sells for millions of dollars now!

Emily dies a famous Canadian Author and Artist Publication of The House of All Sorts Emily's fatal heart attack, March 2. Do you know why she is famous?

Resources Emily Carr At Home and At Work Paintings in Museums and Art Galleries: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Virtual Museum of Canada Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario Sunshine and Tumult Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Deep in the Woods National Gallery of Canada Virtual Museum of Canada Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Art Gallery of Hamilton Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario Guyasdoms D'Sonoqua, Indian Church, 1929 Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario Red Tree, C.1938 McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Ontario Old Tree at Dusk, C.1936 The Mountain, C.1933 Edge of the Forest, C.1935 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec Indian War Canoe, 1912 University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta Untitled (Cemetery In France), C Virtual Museum of Canada Tree Movement McMichael Canadian Art Collection Montreal Museum of Fine Arts University of Lethbridge Art Gallery Virtual Museum of Canada