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Remembering Emily Carr on her 150th birthday 🎂
🎨 Nan Lawson Cheney, 1937
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"For the creative artist there is no finality, no one has said the last word on Emily Carr and no one ever will."
- Lawren Harris
(Canada's two greatest painters in one tweet)
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Emily Carr
Totem Walk at Sitka 1917
"So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born."
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At the Unformable Things: Emily Carr & Some Canadian Modernists show @artgalleryvic, from the summer of 2019. What a long, long time ago!

Canada's two greatest artists side-by-side: Emily Carr, Lawren Harris

Here's 646 Simcoe Street in Victoria BC, where Emily Carr once lived.
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Emily Carr with Prince Pumkin, Lady Loo, Young Jimmy, Adolphus the cat, Kitten, Chipmonk, and parrot, in her garden at 646 Simcoe St., 1918
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Emily Carr, The Indian Church, 1929.
Lawren Harris bought this painting & showcased it in his home. He considered it Carr's best work.

"There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul, life speaking to life."
- Emily Carr, a great painter, & a very fine writer!
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"Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done & forgotten, a forest done in simple movement."
- Emily Carr
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This morning we're celebrating Emily Carr's 150th birthday 🎂 #EmilyCarr150
Two Johnnies - Mandel & Mercer - wrote "Emily" for the 1964 film The Americanization of Emily. Bill Evans made the song his own.

This is for you, our Emily!

Last year, between Covid variant waves, we were excited to go to the Emily Carr exhibition @RoyalBCMuseum #YEG

Fresh Seeing: French Modernism & the West Coast. Carr went to France in 1910-11, was exposed to Fauvism & Post-Impressionism, & came back a new artist.
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What a lovely painting by Emily Carr! One of two Carrs donated to @artgalleryvic. #EmilyCarr150

Dixie & I often walked out to Finlayson Point on our Dallas Road walks. These are some of my most cherished memories. 💔
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Emily Carr's grave in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria B.C.
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Photo: moi (I'm quite proud of this shot). I love the pens, brushes & feathers left as memorials.
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Back in 2017 I tweeted a Canadian painting every day of the year. I began & ended with Emily Carr
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Emily Carr
Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky, 1931
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What a painting! Astounding!

Emily Carr
Memalilaqua, Knight Inlet
1912
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Knight Inlet opens into Queen Charlotte Strait at the Kwakwakaʼwakw community of Memkumlis on Village Island.
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Emily Carr
Blunden Harbour
c. 1930
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"Blunden Harbour was the location of a Kwakwaka'wakw village whose residents referred to themselves as the 'Nak'waxda'xw, known historically as the Nakoaktok."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunden_H…

Emily Carr
Logged-over Hillside
c. 1940
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I know exactly what Emily would be doing if she were here today: helping out with the #FairyCreek blockade. Only 2.7% of B.C.’s original productive old growth forests remain standing.
laststandforforests.com/about/whats-at…

Emily Carr
Strait of Juan de Fuca, 1936 ?
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We can see the Juan de Fuca Strait from our balcony. The ever-changing body of water between Vancouver Island & the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

"How badly I want that nameless thing!"
- Emily Carr
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