Currently not on view
B.C. forest (British Columbia forest),
ca. 1938–40
Emily Carr, Canadian, 1871 - 1945
x1991-102
Canada’s first internationally recognized modern master, the painter and writer Emily Carr worked almost exclusively in isolation in the deep forests and remote aboriginal villages of her native province of British Columbia. Carr initially studied in San Francisco and London, where she worked in an Impressionist manner. Following exposure to the work of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in Paris in 1910, she developed the energetic painting style with which she sought to express the primeval spirit of Canada’s vanishing virgin forests and cultures of the First Nations.
Information
Title
B.C. forest (British Columbia forest)
Dates
ca. 1938–40
Maker
Medium
Oil
Dimensions
91 × 60.9 cm (35 13/16 × 24 in.)
mount (plywood): 91.5 × 60.9 cm (36 × 24 in.)
frame: 109 × 79 × 3.5 cm (42 15/16 × 31 1/8 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dorothy Burr Thompson and Homer A. Thompson
Object Number
x1991-102
Place Depicted
Canada, British Columbia
Signatures
Signed, lower right: M. E. Carr
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Purchased by the donors at Dominion Galleries, Toronto, 1945, for $450.;
B.C. [i.e. British Columbia] Forest
