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Emily Carr: New Perspectives
on a Canadian Icon
Title: Stumps and Sky, 1934
Artist: Emily Carr (Canadian 1871-1945)
Medium: Oil on Paper
Gift from the Douglas M. Duncan collection, 1970
Permanent Collection: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Copyright Art Gallery of Ontario 2007
Image Courtesy: Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
March 3 - May 20, 2007
To quote the Group of Seven, Emily Carr was the ‘Mother of Modern Arts’. It was Lawren Harris of that group
who inspired the British Columbia
native to continue with her artistic endeavors despite her crippling and continuous self-doubts about her natural talent. Her subject matter, love
of native Canadian culture, set her apart. Now she is lauded as an innovative artist. Then she found ridicule and difficulty continuing, often putting
her painting aside to try other ventures.
Title: Upward Trend, 1937
Artist: Emily Carr (Canadian 1871-1945)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Gift from the J.S. McLean collection, by Canada Packers Inc., 1990
Permanent Collection: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Copyright Art Gallery of Ontario 2007
Image Courtesy: Art Gallery of Ontario
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Title: Indian Church, 1929
Artist: Emily Carr (Canadian 1871-1945)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Bequest of Charles S. Band, Toronto 1970
Permanent Collection: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Copyright Art Gallery of Ontario 2007
Image Courtesy: Art Gallery of Ontario
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It is long overdue for Canada to celebrate their best known female artist, Emily Carr.
Thanks to this exhibit, opening at the AGO in March, there is the opportunity to view
works spanning her long career.
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Containing multiple perspectives the exhibition includes a partial reconstruction of the 1927 Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art Native and
Modern. That was the landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in
Ottawa that introduced Carr’s work to the larger Canadian art world. This
exhibition was rich in historical First Nations art as well as the work of other
artists who painted British Columbia First Nations subject matter. In 1928 this
exhibition traveled to the then Art Gallery of Toronto, now the AGO.
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Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon
includes an exploration of Carr’s journals, caricatures and self-portraits.
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Title: Inside Forest II, 1929-30
Artist: Emily Carr (Canadian 1871-1945)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Bequest of Charles S. Band, Toronto 1970
Permanent Collection: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Copyright Art Gallery of Ontario 2007
Image Courtesy: Art Gallery of Ontario
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Title: Guyasdoms D’Sonoqua, 1930
Artist: Emily Carr (Canadian 1871-1945)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Gift from the Albert H. Robson Memorial Subscription Fund, 1942
Permanent Collection: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Copyright Art Gallery of Ontario 2007
Image Courtesy: Art Gallery of Ontario
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“This exhibition will be the most complete examination of Carr’s work the AGO
has ever displayed,” says Gerald McMaster, curator of Canadian art at the AGO.
“It will examine her work from a number of fresh contemporary viewpoints and
give visitors a new look at one of the most compelling figures in the history of
Canadian art.”
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The exhibition is accompanied by an excellent catalog that delves into Emily Carr's life,
writings and oeuvre.
Emily Carr
New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon
Exhibition Schedule:
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO):
March 3 - May 20 2007
Montreal Museum of Fine Art:
June 21 - September 23 2007
Glenbow Museum, Calgary:
October 25, 2007 - January 26 2008
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