Quoted from Vancouver Art GalleryĮmily Carr, Alert Bay (1912) Via National Gallery of Canada Her Obstaclesĭespite her broad art education, she faced many obstacles both in and out of the artistic community. The celebrity status she enjoys today would come as a great shock to Carr, who for most of her life felt like an outcast, known more for her eccentricities than her artistic achievements. As a result, the image of Carr the artist, with her magical forests and magnificent totems Carr the author, with her stories of nineteenth-century Victoria and her beloved pets and Carr the eccentric, animal-loving recluse figure prominently in the Canadian imagination. Since the publication of Maria Tippett’s Emily Carr: A Biography in 1979, numerous scholars, biographers, novelists and playwrights have attempted to make sense of her recollections and capture her life in print. Emily Carr: A Biographical SketchĮmily Carr’s life story has all the qualities of an excellent biography - tragedy, inspiration, triumph, resolve, eccentricity - yet the details of her life have been clouded by her own autobiographical sketches and journals, which describe events as Carr herself liked to remember them.
Now I want to know a lot more about the woman – not just the artist. Ok, so the narrator is a wee bit ostentatious and the music is annoying….however, in this video produced in 1946 (one year after Emily Carr’s death), there are some interesting local scenes and gorgeous views of her artworks I have not found elsewhere.
Her lifelong dedication to art exploring British Colombian native cultures – even living among them for her research – is astonishing considering the prevailing cultural attitudes of her time. In 1910 she spent a year in France, studying at Académie Colarossi in Paris (and elsewhere in France) which introduced her to a “Post-Impressionist style with a Fauvist palette.” (see Vancouver Art Gallery) She also spent time in the private studio schools in Cornwall, Bushey, Hertfordshire, and elsewhere where her instruction continued in the nineteenth-century British watercolour tradition.
She continued studying in England (1899) at the Westminster School of Art. After the death of both parents while she was still in her teens, she spent three years as a very young woman in California School of Design in San Francisco (1889-95) where she learned about traditional still life and landscapes. Perhaps most surprising to me was her extensive education in art. Emily Carr at British Columbia Archives Her Education
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