Victoria, B.C.

Lawren Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario into a wealthy family on October 23, 1885. He attended Central Technical School and St. Andrew’s College in Toronto, and then from age 19 (1904 to 1908) he studied in Berlin.

Académie Colarossi1910–1911Westminster School of Art1899–1901San Francisco Art Institute1890–1892Victoria High SchoolAcadémie de La Palette

Emily Carr’s 1939 forest scene, Tossed by the Wind. A mature-period canvas by Emily Carr fetched more than $3-million at a Toronto auction, making it one of the most valuable works by the B.C. artist to come to market.

Carr sent 26 oil paintings east, along with samples of her pottery and rugs with Indigenous designs. The exhibit, which also included works by Edwin Holgate and A.Y.

1927, fired red clay with paint and metal wire, 11 x 8.5 cm diameter, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Carr signed this bell, and much of her pottery of this period, “Klee Wyck”—a name given to her by members of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation, meaning “Laughing One.”

Modern art

In 1937, Carr suffered her first heart attack, which marked the beginning of a decline in her health and a lessening of the energy required for painting. She began to devote more time to writing, an activity she had commenced many years before with the encouragement of Ira Dilworth, an educator and CBC executive.

Deceased (1871–1945)

When Carr visited New York in 1930, she met Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and saw the work being done by some of the American and European modernists—Arthur Dove (1880–1946), Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), and Georges Braque (1882–1963).

73 years (1871–1945)

Emily Saunders Carr

Painting

1930, Carr reframed existing First Nations iconography and developed her own imaginative vocabulary, thereby inventing an image system for the West Coast that embraced political, social, cultural, and ecological subjects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Emily Carr, (born Dec. 13, 1871, Victoria, B.C., Can. —died March 2, 1945, Victoria), painter and writer, regarded as a major Canadian artist for her paintings of western coast Indians and landscape. While teaching art in Vancouver, B.C., Carr made frequent sketching trips to British Columbian Indian villages.

After witnessing the boldness of vision of the Group of Seven artists in 1927, when she participated in Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern at the National Gallery of Canada, Carr was inspired to infuse her work with equivalent power, emotion, and spirituality.

Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language non-fiction

Académie Colarossi1910–1911

The Group of Seven, also sometimes known as the Algonquin School, was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael (1890–1945), Lawren Harris (1885–1970), A. Y.