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Emily Carr

Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today. Carr's keynote paintings such as The Indian Church (1929) (retitled in 2018 by the Art Gallery of Ontario to Church at Yuquot Village), were not widely known in Canada at first. But her stature as one of Canada's most important artists continued t… more »