(published posthumously in 1946, Oxford University Press–significantly dedicated to Lawren Harris)
(about her stay in an English sanitarium 1902-3; Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1953)
(1944, Oxford University Press book about her boarding-housekeeper experiences)
(her first book–1941 GG winner; Oxford University Press; painting by Carr on cover)
(highly recommended documentary about her paintings and connections with First Nations people; available for purchase from Cine Metu & White Pine Pictures)
(a bronze statue of her by Barbara Paterson, her monkey Woo on her shoulder, and her pet dog Billie on a street corner next to the Empress Hotel, Victoria)
(her childhood home in Victoria)
(inside the house–a popular tourist attraction)
Emily Carr (1871-1945) was an eccentric Victoria-born artist and writer who studied in San Francisco, England, and France. Lawren Harris encouraged her in her work; by 1927, she became recognized nationally. Her subjects are typically native life and the B.C. forest painted spiritually in brushstrokes reminiscent of van Gogh. In later life as she became too ill to continue sketching trips into the woods, she turned her hand to writing. Her first book, Klee Wyck–what the aboriginals called her ‘The Laughing One”–won a Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1941. I used her empathic memoir of “Sophie”, a native woman, in Connections 2: Relating, 1st ed. (Gage).