Discover, connect and experience the world of Emily Carr | Emily Carr & the Group of Seven | Emily Carr found both encouragement and artistic direction through her friendship with Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven. Their support helped Carr embrace modernism while deepening her powerful artistic vision of the forests, villages, and landscapes of British Columbia. | Emily Carr & Frances Hodgkins | Frances Hodgkins was Carr's only woman art instructor other than those from her childhood. The impact of Hodgkins can be seen in Carr’s Brittany watercolours, where she experimented with brighter colour contrasts, flattened perspective, and looser execution. | Historic Emily Carr Exhibition | Emily Carr in British Columbia | When the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London unveiled From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia in October 2011, it was more than another retrospective — it was the first major European solo presentation of Emily Carr at that time one of Canada’s most profound artistic voices, | November 2014 - March 2015 | 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 claims 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 | McMichael Canadian Art Collection | Masterworks by the Group of Seven & Their Contemporaries | Featuring masterworks by Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, Emily Carr, 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. | 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 James Bay 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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