Category: artist Emily Carr
Interesting aspects of Canadian artist’s Emily Carr’s life and work.
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Canadian artist Emily Carr, with whom I’m recently smitten, wasn’t necessarily appreciated in her home town, Victoria British Columbia. She was part of a Canadian artistic vanguard in the early 20th century, embracing modernism and moving away from strictly representational art. They loved her work in Toronto. Her neighbors often scratched their heads. She expressed…
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Do not try to do extraordinary things, but do ordinary things with intensity. From Canadian artist and author Emily Carr’s journal, Nov. 16, 1931. I’ve written about her previously: here and here. Excerpts from her extensive journals have been collected and published, the book titled “Hundreds and Thousands.”
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I stumbled on Canadian artist Emily Carr earlier this year and had the chance to visit her childhood Victoria BC home — an official historic site — two months ago. I have to confess I’ve kind of fallen in love with her. Among Canada’s iconic artists of the early 20th-century, she focused on portraying the…
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