Emily Carr : her paintings and sketches
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
contributor: National Gallery of Canada
contributor: Art Gallery of Toronto
contributor: Dilworth, Ira, 1894-1962
contributor: Harris, Lawren, 1885-1970
creator: Carr, Emily, 1871-1945
issued: 2019-07-23
issued: 1945
description: "Chronology [of her life]: p.61-62. Exhibitions in her lifetime: p.63-64. Partial contents: Emily Carr: a biographical sketch, by Ira Dilworth. - The paintings and drawings of Emily Carr, by Lawren Harris."-- Edwards, M. H., Lort, J. C. R., & Carmichael, W. J. (1975). A bibliography of British Columbia: Years of growth, 1900-1950. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 65.
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extent: 64 pages : frontispiece (colour), illustrations ; 26 cm
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note: The Art of EmUy Cart [By mm\ M&son in the Ottawa Cittttni EMILY CARR died only a few months ago. Today she takes her place as one of the truly great figures in the world Of contemporary art, and perhaps as the most powerful woman painter of this century, anywhere. This courageous, Stubborn and austere woman, who could observe humanity with keen insight and at times a delight. ml s«nse of humor (one should read her books), created on canvas a world of her own, a powerful and Overwhelming world, made of sombre and ghost-like forms.. . '*^|j$&?k Emily Carr recreated British Columbia forests and totem poles and Pacific Coast Indians into tremendous abstractions, true abstractions not usually asS^ciateii with a precious (sometimes obscure) type of art exhibited today. Like all true artists She had to feel tu&t w*y for many years. Her first attempts Were mostly illustrative or impressionistic oils and watereolors. This great Canadian could be classi* fied as a regionalist if subject matter only is considered, but she was before any- thing elSS a painter, tremendously interested in the development of painting M new discoveries and visions. So this re* giorialist beii&e the most universal of our painters bemuse she understood the first and most important law of all good art, which is to interpret one's own visions and to create good works. Emily Carr Will live not so much because she painted a section of the Cana- dian scene, but because she painted Significant pictures in terms of paint/^W [By Thomas Daly in Toronto Saturday Night] j EMILY carr'S books never quite fit into the accustomed moulds of essays, or short stories, or personal memoirs. This seems to have bothered seme people i who choose their reading fare from habit, and seem suspicious of new flavors and unorthodox dishes, , j I have even heard it argued that, Emily Carr's writing is "very nice, but I you can't call it great, because she never j seems to be able to handle anything longer than a few pages* The sam…
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has type: Books
identifier: ND249 .C2
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0380038
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Toronto : Oxford University Press
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subject: Carr, Emily, 1871-1945
type: Text