Discover, explore and experience the world of Emily Carr | Emily Carr's Mentorship of Myfanwy Pavelic | Born in Victoria in 1916, Myfanwy Pavelic — born Myfanwy Spencer, daughter of Spencer’s Department Store owner David Spencer — formed one of the most significant artistic relationships of her life with Emily Carr. The two met when Myfanwy was just six years old, and Carr was 45, beginning a lifelong friendship and mentorship that would shape the young artist’s creative future for many years to come. | "Ucluelet" Two Visits, Two Versions | Drawn from Emily Carr's previously unpublished manuscripts, the version of "Ucluelet" included in Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr, edited by Susan Crean and published in 2003, offers a markedly different perspective from the story of the same name in Klee Wyck. In this account, Carr describes the deterioration she witnessed in the Indigenous village during her 1912 visit, expressing a sense of loss and decline. By contrast, the version published in Klee Wyck presents a more reflective and optimistic interpretation of the same experience. | From House of All Sorts to Beckley Street | In 1936, Carr was forced to sell the House of All Sorts or lose it due to unpaid taxes. When she was unable to find a buyer, she traded it for a house in Fairfield which she rented out for $25 a month and rented a place for herself at 316 Beckley Street in James Bay for $12 a month, living on the difference. In her story called "Beckley Street" she recollects moving in and living, painting and exhibiting there for four years is an enitrely relateable one to anyone down on their luck but trying to make the best of things. | This Week In History - Emily Carr Letters | In 2022, the BC Archives acquired artifacts from the estate of WH Clarke, Emily Carr's publisher. This short 2 minute video describes Carr's writing process, the publication of The Book of Small, her annotated manuscripts of Pause: A Sketchbook and communications with Ira Dilworth, her editor and eventually her leiterary executor. | 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. | A Selection of Important Paintings by Emily Car Fall Live Auction November 26, 2025 Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto A Selection of Important Paintings 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, June 13, 20 & 27 10:00 to 12:00 pm Meet Up at For Good Measure 579 Niagara Street $25 | Check out the blog post that a participant created about her Emily Carr Walk with her family members on June 21, | 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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