Discover, explore and experience the world of Emily Carr | Kathryn Bridge & the Stories Carr Left Behind | For more than four decades, Kathryn Bridge has been one of British Columbia’s leading historians, curators, and writers. Best known for her extensive research on Emily Carr, Bridge has made significant contributions to preserving and interpreting the province’s artistic and cultural heritage through her work at the Royal British Columbia Museum and as an independent author and curator. | A revealing story about Carr's approach to life taken from the short story book This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr published in 2024 by Touchood Editions and edited by Ann-lee Switzer. In this short story, Carr vividly describes her world view and her place in it. The name of her journal Hundred and Thousands (1966) derives from this short story, | The House of All Sorts & the People's Gallery | Emily Carr’s People’s Gallery was a deeply personal and innovative initiative she launched in late 1932, in the middle of the Great Depression. At the time, she was living in her boarding house which she operated as a sole source of income have given up on other sources such as dog breeding, pottery, and rug hooking, and wanted to turn her boarding house into Victoria's first public gallery with her as the caretaker. | Current Emily Carr Exhibitions | Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature | Featuring more than 100 works, the largest Emily Carr exhibition in 20 years, explores in-depth the artist’s obsession with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, using close analysis of her paintings and writings to investigate how she understood nature and her relationship to it. | Art Gallery of Greater Victoria | Reimagining the AGGV Collections | Co-curated by AGGV Chief Curator, Steven McNeil, the exhibition showcases the strengths of AGGV's permanent collections and includes seven paintings by Emily Carr: BC Forest, Juice of Life, Odds and Ends, Bly Sky, Sea and Sky, Hillside in France and Wild Lilies. All but Wild Lilies, painted in 1890, and Hillside in France, painted in 1911, were painted in 1930s. Thanks to Ari at the AGGV for her assistance with the details. | .Audain Art Museum in Whistler boasts the largest permanent exhition of Emily Carr's paintings in the world. They rotate their impressive collection of 25 of her paintings so that no fewer than ten of them are on display at any one time. Their collection includes The Crazy Stair (1931), purchased in 2014 for $3.39-million, the most ever paid at auction for a Carr painting. they promise up to 10 Carr paintings on display at any one time | McMichael Canadian Art Collection | Masterworks by the Group of Seven & Their Contemporaries | Featuring masterworks by Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, and J.E.H. MacDonald, the exhibition is organized geographically, bringing visitors on a journey from the forests of Algoma to the peaks of the Rockies to the North West coast and the Arctic. Six painting are by Emily Carr. | Heffel Fine Auction House | Wind (1936)
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and inscribed "M.E. Carr 316 Beckley St., Victoria"
28 × 19.25 in (71.1 × 48.9 cm)
Cowley Abbot Auction Estimate:$500,000 - $700,000
Sale date:May 27, 2026
Price Realized
$841,250
| Cowley Abbott Auctioneers | Emily Carr Chronicles Walking Tours | Saturdays | 10 am to noon | Join a 2-hour guided tour through James Bay, where Emily Carr lived, painted, wrote abd died. We'll visit 12 historic loctions from the place where she was born to the place where she died and 10 more places important to her life story in between. | | Saturday, May 30 10:00 to 12:00 pm Meet Up at For Good Measure 579 Niagara Street $25 | Emily Carr Chronicles Presentations | Emily Carr & Group of Seven | Discover how Emily Carr and Lawren Harris influenced one another artistically, and how the Group of Seven helped shape Carr’s remarkable late career and modernist vision and her legacy. | | Wednesday, June 10 1:30 - 3:00 pm Cook Street Actvity Centre 380 Cook Street $15 | Emily Carr & Growing Pains | Through stories and readings friom Growing Pains, Emily Carr's vivid autobiography -- we'll trace her extraordinary life's journey from pioneer childhood to artistic triump she expresses with wit and insight. | | Wednesday, June 24 1:30 - 3:00 pm Cook Street Actvity Centre 380 Cook Street $15 | Marilyn Jones, a James Bay resident, leads walks, talks, and tours celebrating Emily Carr and her lifelong connection to Victoria, where Carr was born, lived, worked, and is now remembered. She is co-presenter of the annual 8 Remarkable Women Resting in Ross Bay Cemetery event each International Women’s Day on March 8, where she presents Carr’s stories at her gravesite and those of three other remarkable women artists also buried there. More recently, she founded and is the producer of the Jane’s Walk Victoria Festival, leads the “Emily Carr’s James Bay” tour at the festival and publishes the Emily Carr Chronicles website, blog, and newsletter. | | | | |
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