English 180 - Canadian Literature


25 February 2005

Paintings by Emily Carr

Here are links to a couple of great sites that will show you some of Emily Carr's work:

Emily Carr At Home and At Work is a large site with information about her life, her art, and her writing (Carr wrote several books and her journals have been published as well). There are links to the holdings of many of the major Canadian galleries that own some of her work.

The Vancouver Art Gallery's collection is perhaps the largest. That link will take you to a series of "contact sheets" of Carr's drawings and paintings. You can click on the images to enlarge them. Take some time to look at them. They are all quite remarkable.
Big Raven (1931) is one of the more famous paintings in this collection, as are her paintings of totem poles such as A Skidegate Pole (1942).

This site, an online exhibit called To the Totem Forests: Emily Carr and her Contemporaries Interpret Coastal Villages, will give you a greater sense of the area she was focusing on in her work.