Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon

June 21 to September 23, 2007

Indian War Canoe

This nationally touring exhibition on Emily Carr (1871-1945), the first in morethan thirty years, presents some 200 objects – paintings, drawings, watercolours, caricatures, ceramics, sculpture, hooked rugs, books, maps, photographs and ephemera – 150 of them executed by the artist. The exhibition sheds new lighton this celebrated Canadian, an eccentric and self-sufficient woman who was a writer as well as a painter. She is best known for her canvases of the landscape of the northern coast of British Columbia and of First Nations villages with their monumental totem poles. The show examines her legacy and the political and social context in which her art developed.

The exhibition is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada. It is presented in Montreal by Sun Life Financial.

 

 

Emily Carr (1871-1945), Indian War Canoe, Alert Bay, 1912, oil on panel.MMFA, gift of A. Sidney Dawes. Photo Marilyn Aitken, MMFA.