Emily Carr 1871 1945 Why was she famous

Emily Carr 1871 -1945

Why was she famous? • Had many jobs when most women did not work outside the home • A very Author strange lifestyle • Influenced by the Group of 7 • Painted remote Native Villages • Painter

Emily had 4 sisters. They were bossy older sisters! Read about Emily’s Life in the book “Emily” by Susan Gaitskell

Emily learns to draw • “ I wanted to draw a dog. I sat beside Carlow's kennel and stared at him for a long time. Then I took a charred stick from the grate, split open a large brown-paper sack and drew a dog on the sack. My married sister who had taken drawing lessons looked at my dog and said, "Not bad. " Father spread the drawing on top of his newspaper, put on his spectacles, looked, said, "Um!" Mother said, "You are blacked with charred wood, wash!" The paper sack was found years later among Father's papers. He had written on it, "By Emily, aged eight". 1880 -- First drawing lessons.

As a young Lady Emily went to Art School 1886 -- Death of Emily's mother. 1888 -- Death of Emily's father. 1890 -- Studying art in San Francisco.

Emily had many different jobs. • 1893 -- Teaches children's art classes. Why didn’t Emily get married like most young ladies did then? 1905 -- Cartoonist for The Week. Teaching in Victoria.

She liked to paint the woods of B. C. Title: Wood Interior Date: 1909 Medium: Watercolour

Emily learned about the French Impressionists Title: French Lace Makers (Women of Brittany Date: 1911 Medium: Watercolour and Pencil 1910 -- Studying in France.

She visited remote Native Villages all by herself. Title: Skidegate Date: 1912 Medium: Oil Title: House Front-Gold Harbour. Date: 1912 1898 -- First trip to Ucluelet (Indian Reserve, west side of Vancouver Island). 1912 -- Six-week trip to Indian villages.

The natives call her “Klee Wyck” which means “the one who laughs” But Emily was worried that all the native art was fast disappearing. She tried to record it all. • • • Title: Big Raven Date: 1931 Medium: Oil

She ran a strange boarding house and had to work hard to make a living. Her messy studio 1913 -- Return to Victoria: Hill House (House of All Sorts) established.

She has all sorts of animals including a pet monkey. She liked to push them around in a baby buggy! A painting of Woo

Emily really wanted to be an artist Date: c. 1925 Medium: Oil

She lived in a caravan and went painting in the woods. Shocking for a lady of those times!

She was worried about what was happening to the forests. Title: Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky Date: 1935 Medium: Oil

Her forests are colourful.

Her skies seem to move! Title: Above the Gravel Pit Date: 1937 Medium: Oil

Emily even painted some wild abstract paintings. Title: Abstract Tree Forms Date: 1932 Medium: Oil Location: Vancouver Art Gallery

Emily became a famous author 1940 Major stroke. Broadcast of Klee Wyck stories on CBC Radio 1941 -- Publication of Klee Wyck. 1942 – Last sketching trip: serious heart attack. Publication of The Book of Small.

Emily met the famous Group of 7 Canadian Landscape artists She becomes good friends with them And they encourage her. J. E. H. Mac. Donald 1873 -1932 Algoma Waterfall, 1920 • 1927 -- Travels to eastern Canada and meets Group of Seven.

Finally people started to like her art Emily’s work sells for millions of dollars now! 1937 -- First heart attack. Very successful solo exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario. 1938 -- Very successful solo exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery.

Emily Carr 1871 -1945 One of Canada’s most famous painters. Her inspiration was from looking at Native villages of her home province (British Columbia) She was 57 when she became famous, and was mentored by Lawren Harris and painted with the Group of Seven Carr was 57 years old before her paintings gained national attention, and it was in the years that followed that she created the body of work on which her reputation rests. In 1937 Carr suffered a first and severe heart attack, which marked the beginning of a decline in her health and a lessening of the energy required for painting

Emily Carr Tree in Autumn Totem Walk at Sitka

Emily dies a famous Canadian Author and Artist Do you know why she is famous? 1944 -- Publication of The House of All Sorts. 1945 -- Emily's fatal heart attack, March 2.

Resources • Emily Carr At Home and At Work http: /// www. sbtc. gov. bc. ca/culture/schoolnet/carr Paintings in Museums and Art Galleries: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Virtual Museum of Canada Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario Sunshine and Tumult Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Deep in the Woods Art Gallery of Ontario Guyasdoms D'Sonoqua, 1928 -30 Indian Church, 1929 Art Gallery of Ontario Red Tree, C. 1938 Mc. Michael Canadian Art Collection, Ontario Old Tree at Dusk, C. 1936 The Mountain, C. 1933 Edge of the Forest, C. 1935 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec Indian War Canoe, 1912 University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta Untitled (Cemetery In France), C. 191112 Virtual Museum of Canada Tree Movement