Artist: Emily Carr (1871 - 1945)
Nationality: Canadian
Movement: Modern Canadian School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After studying at the California School of Design, Emily Carr traveled to England to train at the Westminster School of Art. She returned to her home in Vancouver for a brief period before moving to Paris in 1910. There she studied the works of Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Fauvists and exhibited at the Salon d’Autumne in 1911. Upon her return to Canada, Carr began studying the art of Native American cultures on the Pacific Northwest. She devoted her career to this interest, not producing any paintings for fifteen years. In 1927, she met the Group of Seven artists in Ottawa and began painting again. Ten years later, she suffered a heart attack and worked as an author until her death in 1945.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Samuel Miller - Emily Moulton 1852 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Anonymous Portrait of Emily Tucker at age four ambrotype 1864
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Anonymous Portrait of Emily Tucker at age two Ambrotype 1862
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Anonymous Portrait of Emily Tucker at age five ambrotype 1865
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Silas Selleck Portrait of Emily Tucker at nine month Ambrotype 1860 - 1861
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Hamilton &Lovering Portrait of Emily Tucker as a baby ambrotype 19th century
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Emily Burling (Emily Manchester) Waite, American, 1887-1980 Tijmentje Polishing Brass about 1911 Oil on canvas
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Anonymous Portrait of Mrs. John M. Tucker (Helena M. Van Cleef, Mother of Emily Tucker) Ambrotype circa 1860
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Emily Eden A Young Hill Rajah at Simla watercolor circa 1836 - 1841
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Emily Eden Portraits of the Princes & People of India (London: J. Dickinson & Son, 1844) book with lithographs 1844
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The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818-1906, and Laura Anne, 1820-1894), 1823 Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830)Oil
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Portrait of the Misses Mary and Emily McEuen, Thomas Sully (England, Horncastle, 1783 - 1872) , 1823, Oil on canvas
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EMILY MAC DONELD, MARQUISE DE LAS MARISMAS, VICOMTESSE AGUADO (1817-1905) (1852) by WINTERHALTER Franz Xavier
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Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki Emily presents Jaglou to Colonel Brensen Engraving 1795 - 1796
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Memorial Quilt, Emily (?) Snyder (born 1804)  (Artist), circa 1850, Cotton plain weave, pieced and appliquéd, with ink inscriptions
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Thomas Lawrence Emily Calmady chalk 18th - 19th century
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Sketch for Phaethon 1922-24 Oil and graphite on canvas 89.85
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Sketch for Atlas and the Hesperides 1922-24 Oil and graphite
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Sketch for Chiron and Achilles 1922-24 Oil and graphite on
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Sketch for Perseus on Pegasus Slaying Medusa 1922-24 Oil and
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Race 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Squatter 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Polar Sea 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Crater 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Theft 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Ozema 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Monikins 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Prairie 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Fugitive 19th century
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Francis Dodd, R.A. Maurice George Carr Glyn Drypoint and etching 1917
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Rescue 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Incendiaries 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Assault 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Washington At Monmouth 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Wreck of The Ariel 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Disputed prize 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Loading a Ship 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Marshall Revenge 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Wounded Indian 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Death at Caraccioli 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Hard Time 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Wing and Wing 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The squatter's death 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Warning Lithograph 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The waylaid travelers 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Water Witch 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Husking Bee 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The persuit, Cooper-The Spy 19th century
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Emily, 121-12 (La Jolla, CA, 8/27/00), Douglas McCulloh (United States, born 1955) , 2000, Chromogenic development (Ektacolor) print
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The block - Cooper - The pathfinder 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Struggle - Cooper, The red rover 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley In a Dry Goods Store Lithograph 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Illustration from Knickerbockers History of N.Y. 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Poor Erin's daughter 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Death of Scipio - The Red Rover 19th century
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Leonard Baskin Emily Faithful, twentieth plate in the book, Icones librorum artifices ([Leeds, Mass.]: Gehenna Press, 1988) color etching 1988
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Scenes from Rip van Winkle #5 Lithograph 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Scenes from Rip van Winkle #6 Lithograph 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley Dr. Reasono, Cooper-The Monikins 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley The Islanders Defense, Cooper- 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (32)
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McMichael Canadian Art Collection: Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own
Places of Their Own, was inspired by Dr Sharyn Udall's book of the same name. Dr Udall, of New Mexico is our guest curator and brings to the exhibition not only her extensive knowledge of Carr, Kahlo and O'Keeffe's art, but also additional in...
OBORO: Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760: Improvisation for 4 Projectors
Laiwan is an artist and writer recognised for her interdisciplinary practice based in poetics and philosophy. A graduate of Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Laiwan started the OR Gallery in Vancouver in 1983. She has since initiated variou...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own
The Vancouver Art Gallery retains one of the most significant Emily Carr collections in the world and is justifiably proud to present this outstanding exhibition. Comprising 56 paintings, the exhibition was inspired by Dr. Sharyn Udall's book of t...
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: Passport to Paradise: Works by Ian Carr-Harris, Janet Cardiff and
Ian Carr-Harris "In [Ian Carr-Harris‚s] accomplished works, Toronto‚s veteran conceptualist, teacher and former Ontario College of Art and Design librarian (he now teaches art at the college) presents extremes of materiality and ephemerality."...
Auckland Art Gallery: Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy
The show includes Maria Abramovic and Ulay, Pat Brassington, Steve Carr, Derrick Cherrie, Julian Dashper, Jae Hoon Lee, Luise Fong, Lucio Fontana, Douglas Gordon, Terrence Handscomb, Heavy Industries, Andrea Low, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, An...
Art Museum Caribbean University (MACU): Infinity in a Limit: From New Jersey to Puerto Rico
The exhibit explores the duality of life between the eternity of the universe and the limitations in the universe represented by reality. In his works he develops the existentialist theme trough abstract expression- geometric in a surrealist and ...
Thorne Gallery, Keene State College: FACULTY EXHIBITION
The artists featured in the exhibit include Samuel Azzaro, Daniel Carr, Dede Cummings, Rosemarie Bernardi, Julia Ferrari, Henry Freedman, Heather Gendron, Laura Hall, Marsha Hewitt, Karl Hluska, Laura Jones, Ann Laroche, Jack Marshall, Stephani...
Michael Gibson Gallery: Scott Conarroe: Londons
"In the fall of 2005 I began photographing London, Ontario. I produced a generalized place portrait of the city’s houses and its infrastructure and ambience. Several months later I re-photographed the same sites according to those compositions. Lo...
OBORO: Cont(r)act by Nadia Myre
The work of Nadia Myre investigates, interrogates, and circumnavigates these elided histories (not as an "authority," or even as a singular, undivided subject) in a diverse and divergent series of works unearthed "from the trenches" (as she d...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Barb Hunt: antipersonnel - A Fiber Installation
Her reproductions are innocent and even seductive, contemptuously mimicking an ominously lethal weapon capable of maiming and, often, killing. After visiting a demonstration in Paris in 1998, Hunt was alarmed by the immense preva...
FOUR: Borderline: Paul McKinley, Robert Carr and Sufjan Stephens.
Robert's work to date has involved making objects from elemental building blocks, structured by a geometrical logic. He has focused his work on the use of visual rhythms, patterns and symmetries, on the effects of scale on perception, and on ...
Portland Museum of Art: In Search of the Promised Land: Frederic Edwin Church
In Search of the Promised Land comprises 44 paintings, most of them lent by museums and private collectors. Its features some of the artist’s most memorable and monumental canvases including Niagara Falls from the American Side (1867) from the Na...
Splendid: LadyBoss Productions Presents Unique Choice Art for Under £150
This year's Splendid line-up includes Fuyukio Akiyoshi
Steve Carr
Silvana Emcimas
 Anne Rook 
       Isha Bøhling
Martha Craig
Megan Hansen-Knarhoi
Kiri Schmache...
National Gallery of Canada: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTIST: SELF-PORTRAITS AND PORTRAITS
Visitors to the exhibition will have a wonderful opportunity to observe a captivating and diverse selection of portraits, some light-hearted and humorous in tone, others more serious and reflective in nature, said Pierre Théberge, Director, Na...
Artspeak: Parallel Dimension: Elizabeth Zvonar
Parallel Dimension approaches the instability of perceptual experience. Working with a glass bender, Zvonar will replace one of Artspeak's storefront windows with a distorted duplicate. The installation will be on display round-the-clock for the m...
Artspeak: Triple Bill: Isabelle Pauwels
Pornography is used by Pauwels as a way of investigating what an audience wants. While her textual representation of the experience thwarts the psychic economy of porn, the issue of desire remains central. The presentation of Triple Bill takes int...
Presentation House Gallery: mis.com: Fiona Bowie, Lorna Simpson, Sophie Calle and Gregory Shepard
Lorna Simpsons piece Call Waiting, 1997, is based on that ubiquitous phone conceit by the same name. The device that mediates all the relationships interrupts the narratives in this elegant projection piece, This allows for the play of intrigu...
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre: John and Lou's 1923 Voyage
For many years Wills purchase sat unexplored, until he rediscovered it in 1997 prior to a creative residency at the Banff Centre. It was during this time that Will began to puzzle together the images with evidence of the ...
San Antonio Museum of Art: Whispers from the Walls: The Art of Whitfield Lovell
Lovell’s exploration of African American life is further enhanced by added layers of sensory experience, from the scents of musty fabric and a half-filled decanter of whiskey, to the sounds of a 1920s blues tune emanating from an old record player...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Modern Woman: Women Artists between the Wars
Recently discovered but in serious need of repair, a stunning painting has been restored to its former glory and added to the Art Gallery of Hamilton's permanent collection.  A Northern Railway Town, Lake Superior c. 1935 by Rody Kenny Courtice (C...
Artspeak: Erica Stocking: Objects to Move the Assemblage Point and Other Tools
Playing is a serious matter. Like dreaming, play is a unique and vital form of consciousness, but unlike the simulation of a dream, playing occurs in the world. Play requires playmates and/or playthings. By imagining a chair as a throne or a house...
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University: Max Stern: The Taste of a Dealer. Works from Private Collections Acquired Through the Dominion Gallery
Max Stern was born in Germany in 1904. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1928 after having pursued studies in art history throughout Europe.  Stern moved to England during the Second World War and subsequently immigrated to Ca...
Vancouver Art Gallery: NEXT: Robert Arndt
In order to challenge traditional perceptions of art, Robert Arndt's practice is concerned with documentation itself as artwork. He highlights the notion that documentation may be all that is required for an idea to exist and resonate. Arndt's new...
Bishop's University Art Gallery: The Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art
We are all familiar with the snapshot, and indeed most of us possess countless examples of these personal visual records. The snapshot is omnipresent in everyday life and is a staple of how individuals experience and remember events.  The Found a...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Takao Tanabe: Retrospective of Acclaimed B.C. Artist
Comprised of more than 60 paintings and significant works on paper, the course of Tanabe’s career is displayed through abstract expressionist images, uncompromising abstractions and minimalist prairie vistas completed between 1950-1980, among more...
Ohio Art League: Breaking the Mold: Julie York, Kris Lyons, Alex Hibbitt
Kris Lyons draws directly from a library of found objects re-made in Clay to create a hybrid art object that has been described as “Monsanto meets Mattel”. Her work is playful, yet thought provoking, and often informed by the world around her. Jul...
Vancouver Art Gallery: E.J. Hughes: Work from the Early 1930s to Present
Hughes remarkable career as an artist, which continues to this day, spans 70 years and encompasses his work as a gifted printmaker, successful muralist, outstanding Canadian war artist and prolific painter. His paintings depict land, sea and smal...
City Gallery Wellington: Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand
From an 18 metre long glistening glitter carpet by Hamilton artist Mark Curtis to Ralph Hotere's White Drip: from a working ice-skating rink by Wellington artist Maddie Leach to a new interactive work by Ronnie van Hout, Telecom Prospect 2004 has ...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction
“As home to the most important collection of canvases by Emily Carr, Canada’s great Modernist painter, the Vancouver Art Gallery is the ideal venue to showcase the work of her legendary American counterpart, Georgia O’Keeffe, in the first solo exh...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Expanding Horizons : Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918
"The revolutionary approach of Expanding Horizons makes a major contribution to the understanding of landscape art in North America," said Kathleen Bartels director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Gallery is proud to offer visitors the first op...
Walter Anderson Museum of Art: Daring From Within: The Art of American Women from the Sellars Collection
A sheltered life can be a daring life . . . for all serious daring starts from within. These words closed Eudora Welty's biographical sketch, One Writer's Beginnings, which she delivered at Harvard University in 1983. Welty came from a shel...
Vancouver Art Gallery: First MAJOR Brian Jungen Survey Exhibition
“The Gallery has long been a showcase for exceptional emerging talent and is committed to supporting Vancouver’s world-class artists,” said Vancouver Art Gallery Director Kathleen Bartels. “The exhibition offers insight into Brian Jungen’s complex...

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