Discover, explore and experience the world of Emily Carr | Emily Carr, Seattle Artists & Mark Tobey | In the story of Emily Carr’s artistic development, much attention has been given to her relationship with members of the Group of Seven, particularly Lawren Harris. Yet other friendships—ones that began just across the border in Seattle—were equally important in helping Carr find her mature artistic voice. That friendship was with Seattle artists, Ambrose and Viola Patterson and in particular Mark Tobey. | In this story from Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr (2003) edited by Susan Crean, Carr describes visiting an Indigenous burial ground where tree burials and cedar graves allowed nature to return the dead gently to the earth. Though initially unsettled by the scattered remains, she began to see beauty in the process of the natural world. | The First Emily Carr Gallery in Victoria | Art lovers of every generation eventually fall under the spell of Emily Carr. “Every generation discovers her anew,” said Kerry Mason—an art historian, curator, and educator who devoted 45 years to studying, teaching, and interpreting Carr’s life and work. She was the curator of the first Emily Carr Gallery in Victoria that once operated in ithe 1970s at her father's former store on Wharf Street. | 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. | Audain Art Museum in Whistler boasts the largest permanent exhibition 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, currently the most ever paid at auction for a Carr painting. 10 Carr paintings are 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 | This auction of an important portrait by Emily Carr of her friend Sophie Frank, a skilled Squamish basket weaver who she met after moving to Vancouver in 1906, was included in Heffel's spring auction in May 2013. Emily and Sophie shared a very special bond, the portrait was featured as the frontispiece for Carr's Klee Wyck, she dedicated "To Sophie" and included a story about her life-long friend in the collection. They were friends until Sophie died in 1939. Significant interest in the painting drove the sale price to $230,000, four times its presale estimate. It came from the estate of Ira Dilworth, hedr editor and literary executor. This was the painting's first time at auction. | Emily Carr Chronicles Walking Tours | Discover the vibrant life and legacy of Victoria's most celebrated artist on this unforgettable 2-hour walking tour through historic James Bay, Victoria — the neighborhood where Emily Carr was born, lived, painted, wrote and and was laid to rest. If you love art, local history, or storytelling, this is a journey you won’t want to miss and also one you will always remember. | Saturday, July 18 | 10 - Noon Sunday, July 19 | 1:30 - 3:30 pm Wednesday, July 22 | 3 - 5 pm Thursday, July 23 | 10 - Noon Friday, July 24 | 3 - 5 pm | Saturday, July 25 | 10 - Noon Wednesday, July 29 | 2 - 4 pm Friday, July 31 | 3 - 5 pm Thursday, July 30 | 10 - Noon Friday, July 31 | 3 - 5 pm | | 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. She also writes, edits and publishes the Emily Carr Chronicles website, blog, and this newsletter. Please forward this newsletter to an Emily Carr fan with my thanks. | | | | |
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